Contextualizando a influência das avaliações: um ensaio meta-avaliativo com ênfase na utilidade e responsabilidade

Abstract

Objective: to systematize the meta-evaluation methodology in its conceptual and operational aspects to facilitate its use in health management practices. Methods: this is an essay on meta-evaluation. The theoretical bases were searched in books and articles, published between 1991 and 2018, that approached the conceptual, methodological and operational aspects of the meta-evaluation. Results: the meta-evaluation consists of a process of delineating, obtaining and applying descriptive information and judgment about the usefulness, feasibility, adequacy and precision of an evaluation in its systematic nature, based on standards and criteria proposed and validated. There are several ways or approaches to the meta-evaluation. However, the standards commonly follow the guidelines of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, which proposes 30 standards grouped into five principles: utility, viability, ownership, accuracy / precision and accountability, being these essential and determinants for the quality of an evaluative study. Conclusion: the meta-evaluation contributes to the judgment of the quality of the evaluation processes, in the adequacy and usefulness, and can be useful, especially when it comes to themes and contexts that have already been evaluated and therefore is also described as "an evaluation of an evaluation".