Autovalutazione delle scuole e valutazione esterna a confronto: indicazioni e spunti di riflessione

With the entry into force of Presidential Decree 80/2013 which es-tablished the Italian National Evaluation System, all schools draw up a Self-evaluation Form. Some of them receive an external evaluation vis-it by a team of evaluators. Self-evaluation and external evaluation share the same framework of the reference that outlines the areas sub-ject to evaluation in respect of which schools are called both to evalu-ate themselves, by attributing a judgment to themselves, and to be evaluated, by receiving a judgment expressed by an evaluation team. This contribution discusses the balancing models between self-evaluation and external evaluation in different education systems, il-lustrating their constraints and opportunities through a meta-evaluation approach, aimed at investigating the validity of schools’ evaluation processes. To this end, the authors illustrate a study carried out on a sample of Italian schools aimed at verifying whether and to what ex-tent the judgments expressed by the external evaluation teams are con-sistent with those that the schools self-attribute when compiling the Self-Evaluation Report. Finally, the authors reflect on the implications of the illustrated results, calling for a rethinking of the relationship be-tween self-evaluation and external evaluation with a perspective to de-velopmental and cooperation.

Parole chiave:School Self-Evaluation; Inspection; Self-Evaluation Form; Meta-evaluation studies.

Letizia Giampietro, Paola Bianco, Donatella Poliandri, Autovalutazione delle scuole e valutazione esterna a confronto: indicazioni e spunti di riflessione in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 88-89/2024, pp 121-142, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2024-088007