Le sfide valutative nel processo educativo: il contributo di Aldo Visalberghi

Visalberghi’s thought and commitment recurrently focused on educational research and evaluation. Among his eclectic and versatile interests, this article pays attention to the activity of promotion and support to evaluation studies in Italy. Indeed, Visalberghi’s work as a pedagogist is strongly characterized by a term, evaluation, that he took from Dewey and introduced into the Italian pedagogical debate. This complex and innovative theme for the then Italian school was faced by Visalberghi in several ways, that this article tries to retrace: the use of testing to ascertain school profit and the adoption of appropriate and reliable techniques to measure school achievement. As one of the highest types of knowledge, evaluation implies the joint commitment of all those that share responsibility for the educational action.