Università Roma Tre

The course aims to build and develop students' knowledge of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological aspects of evaluation of social and educational services, as a function of increasing their awareness of the problems related to the relationship between policy and evaluation and between quality of services and evaluation.
An integral part of the course is the presentation and discussion of the main theories and techniques of evaluation and the relationship between design, planning and evaluation of socio-educational services.

In particular, the objectives of the course are as follows:
- to know the main theories of evaluation;
- Acquire the theoretical and epistemological foundations of evaluation research;
- to know the main methodological approaches used in the field of evaluation;
- be able to select procedures and techniques according to the objects and objectives of the evaluation;
- to identify the relationship between evaluation and policies in the field of social and educational services;
- Identify the relationship between evaluation and decision at the level of the mark and the microsystem;
- recognise the function of evaluation in relation to the quality of services.