{"id":47006,"date":"2019-02-25T01:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=47006"},"modified":"2019-02-25T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:16:42","slug":"why-do-we-like-to-evaluate-and-be-evaluated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-like-to-evaluate-and-be-evaluated\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we like to evaluate and be evaluated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI call to perform a management to a call center.\u00a0The person with whom I speak warns me that, at the end of the call, I will receive another to assess how I have been treated.<\/span><\/p>\n

When finishing any menu in a restaurant, the waiter, with kindness, asks me if everything went well.\u00a0Then, he suggests that I rate and comment on the quality of the restaurant on\u00a0<\/span>Tripadvisor<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0: “It’s very important for us”.<\/span><\/p>\n

I make a routine purchase at El Corte Ingl\u00e9s, and at the moment of payment, a small screen appears with several\u00a0evaluation\u00a0<\/span>smileys<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0: I have to show my degree of satisfaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before deciding what to go to the cinema, some friends tell me that we will go to see such a film, because in\u00a0<\/span>filmaffinity it<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0has an extraordinary score.<\/span><\/p>\n

I choose an apartment on\u00a0<\/span>Airbnb<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0based on the rating and comments of other guests.\u00a0And at the same time, the owners of the apartments explicitly ask me to rate them\u00a0<\/span>great!\u00a0<\/span><\/em>because their future depends on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pleasure of living in an evaluated world<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

All these everyday situations have something in common.\u00a0It’s about the taste that we experience when we meet an\u00a0<\/span>evaluated world<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0And in the digital age, any anonymous person arrogates in turn the right to evaluate.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s nothing strange.\u00a0Since childhood, the school system has accustomed us to give value to what is evaluated.\u00a0The rest is a waste of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asking any child, what about the school? The ordinary will be a simplifying answer: “Well, 3 outstanding and 4 notable”.\u00a0What matters is the grade, the number that categorizes and judges us, but not the content of what is learned.\u00a0And it happens that children learn to be people who adapt to the evaluation criteria.\u00a0And nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n

You do not learn to learn, but you assume the methods to obtain a better evaluation.\u00a0And it seems that what is not evaluated, does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Educational models such as\u00a0<\/span>Finnish<\/span><\/a>\u00a0are based on learning systems where school life is not a competition for maximum qualification.\u00a0Does evaluation\u00a0<\/span>improve learning<\/span><\/a>\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n

In college it is no longer surprising that this\u00a0<\/span>behavioral<\/span><\/a>\u00a0model\u00a0, whereby students only strive when there is a positive evaluation, is the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also the norm for\u00a0<\/span>teachers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Doing something gratuitously, without academic prize, becomes a beautiful exception to the pragmatism of the evaluable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaluating and being evaluated becomes a spiral that makes us depend on social recognition.\u00a0It transforms us into people who react to those evaluation criteria.\u00a0And what is not evaluable, simply, is useless because\u00a0<\/span>we will not be measured by it<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is what the French sociologist\u00a0<\/span>Ang\u00e9lique del Rey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0calls “tyranny of evaluation”: we become strategists to win in the game of evaluation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social reputation in all areas<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

But what happens in the educational world has spread to any field of human activity.\u00a0The social reputation system quantifies and compares the quality of the\u00a0<\/span>workers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, but also the personal and sentimental areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

One chapter of the\u00a0<\/span>Black Mirror<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0series\u00a0, titled\u00a0<\/span>Falling Down<\/span><\/em>\u00a0, showed a world in which each person carries their own qualification.\u00a0Everyone evaluates and is evaluated and, depending on that rating, we can access the promised bonuses for being a model citizen.<\/span>
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