Abstract

VARGAS, ANA CAROLINA; PEREZ, TEREZA  and  DIAZ, PATRICIA. PROJECT EVALUATION AND EVALUATIVE THINKING: REPORTING AN EXPERIENCE. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.73, pp.138-168.  Epub July 16, 2019. ISSN 1984-932X.  https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v30i73.5821.

The main purpose of this article is to throw light on the pedagogical potential of educational programs’ evaluations with the intention of building capacity of evaluative thinking in social organizations and their teams. It presents the path of a civil society organization in the educational field and the analysis of the learnings generated by the process of evaluating one of its projects. It was based on the reflective and self-evaluative perceptions of the professionals involved and obtained using data collection from semi-structured individual and collective interviews. The evaluation process, which was conducted in an interactive and dialogical way, contributed to the expansion of the critical consciousness about the project, favoring the development of the evaluative reasoning of the participants, guiding them to thinking evaluation critically, autonomously and actively. In conclusion, the pedagogical potential of project evaluations, for the construction of an evaluative thinking in organizations, is broad but still little explored.

Keywords : PROJECT EVALUATION; LEARNING; PARTICIPATORY ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION CULTURE.

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