Działania pozorne w ewaluacji w obszarze szkolnictwa wyższego

In Polish conditions, in many areas, evaluation departs from its more than 100-year-old tradition of social applied research, whose main purpose is to support development. The term “evaluation” is often overused, and a tendency to replace other diagnostic methods, such as measurement, parameterization, accreditation, audit or assessment, with this term is noticed. Control and bureaucratic functions are unjustly attributed to evaluation, while omitting its animation, socializing, motivational and formative potentials. In this way, evaluation loses its reliability and takes the form of sham activities, that is, those which do not achieve the assumed goals, or do not fulfill the assumed functions, although they are carried out in accordance with the intentions of parties.