Evaluation and Evaluating the Community Initiative "URBAN"


Autoria(s): Alves, Sónia
Data(s)

09/05/2016

09/05/2016

2013

Resumo

The relevance of the relationship between evaluation and learning is widely acknowledged; as well as the importance of this learning process to support policy decision making and to judge the value of “what was done”, “how” and “with what results”. Although the activity of evaluation is not something new, but a field of knowledge with its own theories and practices, it is important to notice that there is great variability in the tradition and cultures of evaluation between countries. This paper presents and compares different conceptual and methodological frameworks created for the assessment of the European initiative Urban II, including the one that was used by the author in the context of an academic evaluation in the city of Porto. The comparative analysis of the results leads us to the recommendation for more democratic processes of evaluation and intervention, in order to improve their quality and accountability and promote the important goal of learning with this type of experimental initiatives.

The author is supported by grant no. SFRH/BPD/75863/2011 from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Lisboa, Portugal.

Identificador

Alves, S. (2013). Evaluation and Evaluating the Community Initiative “URBAN”. In 2nd International Scientific Conference: Regional Development, Spatial Planning and Strategic Governance (pp. 323-340) . Belgrade: Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia

http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23623

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS)

Relação

http://iaus.ac.rs/upload/download/Monografije/Conference%20Proceedings-RESPAG.pdf

Direitos

openAccess

Tipo

conferenceObject