Evaluation as a Pedagogical Phenomenon

Sa？etak Evaluation is the result of a continuous, recursive and divergent development process for all stakeholders in the education system which involves a number of interaction effects. Throughout the history, the evaluation reflected what the teachers believed to be the education of a particular moment in given history. In professional and scientific literature, numerous definitions of evaluation can be found, and it is difficult to provide a unique definition of the concept which could be applied to different social and scientific surroundings. However, in this paper, the evaluation will be defined as an assessment of certain education activities and results, the effectiveness of interventions as well as the answer to whether the desired results have been reached and to what extent. Furthermore, the paper will discuss the evaluation of the education system and the stakeholders in the evaluation as well as provide an overview of the evaluation models which determine the differences in the evaluation processes. Since the education is simultaneously both the process and the result of the process, the question arises as to whether the evaluation is to be predetermined or to be open to unexpected results and outcomes as well