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标题：Construccionismo, postmodernismo y teoría de la evaluación. La función estratégica de la evaluación
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作者：Baltasar Fernández-Ramírez
期刊名称：Athenea Digital
印刷版ISSN：1578-8946
电子版ISSN：1578-8946
出版年度：2009
期号：15
页码：119-134
语种：Spanish
出版社：Departament de Psicologia Social
摘要："Testing" and "evaluating" are money-making activities that offer a rewarding professional career; perhaps it is no surprise that the field includes numbers of self-styled "evaluators" who provide services without the required training. Evaluation means the systematic application of given criteria for judging the merit or value of a variety of 'assessables' - capacities, powers and services, including social policy interventions. The conventional perspective is rationalist (in diagnosis, planning, intervention and impact analysis), even though rationalism have lost their pre-eminence in the social sciences, in favour of political, symbolic or chaotic alternatives, as the history of organizational thought reveals. Alternatively, from a constructionist perspective, we see the power of evaluation criteria to reify what they ostensibly assess. Evaluations suggest or impose what is right; criteria of value define, give meaning and prioritize just one way of understanding social relations, program goals or individual and organizational behaviour. The suggestion in this article is to make a positive virtue of this inevitable pragmatic consequence of evaluation: to openly embrace it as an agent of change, emphasizing a strategical function beyond the traditional purposes of enhancement and accountability.
关键词：Social constructionism;Testing;Evaluation;Postmodernism;Organisational strategy;Evaluation purposes;Evaluación estratégica;Pensamiento organizacional;Postmodernismo;Funciones de la evaluación