La valutazione come strumento di empowerment organizzativo e professionale

The essay reflects about the evaluation as instrument of empowerment.
The essay starts from a reconstruction of the rapid spread of the evaluation
practices, focusing on the problematic aspects around which critical
perspectives have matured. The author offers a brief presentation of the
most significant contributions that look at the adoption of self-assessment
approaches in educational systems, with particular attention to the School
Self Evaluation. This briefly shows the main assumptions of values and the
critical issues related to an approach of this type. In the conclusions, the
author highlights the centrality of the management support and the systems
of leadership that underlie the evaluation process. To adopt an approach of
this type to favor, within the autonomy of education system, the
construction of skills and capacity for organizational and professional
assessment means, in fact, reconsidering both the processes of
accompaniment to the nascent culture of the evaluation and the necessity
for preparing to new strategic skills within this peculiar kind of
organization.