Frontiers of evaluation: United States

• Autor(a) principal: Cozzens, Susan E.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8649036
• topic: Evaluation; Metrics; Logic models; Accountability; H5; Avaliação. Métrica. Modelos de lógica. Prestação de contas (accountability).; H5

For someone from the United States, addressing the theme of the “frontiers of evaluation” is a pleasure. Frontiers are an important part of the American self-concept. We have always seen ourselves moving west, into new territory that is expected to bring freedom and prosperity. This paper will trace that moving frontier in research evaluation in the United States, starting with a little history, moving towards the present, and peeking into the future. It begins with the transition from program evaluations to accountability systems, then turns to the current effort to establish a Science of Science Policy that will provide the research base for future evaluation techniques. I will illustrate current practice with several examples: complex rating systems, logic models, economic estimations, and mapping, before describing a new dataset still in preparation. I will conclude with some observations about where U.S. research evaluation has been and is going.