Call for Paper and Submission. Year 5 No. 2/August, 2025
The challenges and opportunities of evaluation: from theory to practice.
This thematic Special Issue aims to collect contributions focused on evaluation, in various sectors such as education, training and labour, with reference to both the policies defined and implemented at national, regional and local level and by the stakeholders involved, as well as the operational declinations and practices.
The topic of policy evaluation occupies an important role in the national and European agenda. With the awareness that it is possible to decline “evaluation” into specific activities that respond to different logics, this thematic edition aims to focus on what is common, i.e. the final objective: acquiring knowledge useful for finalizing the planning of future policies and actions.
If the evaluation activity responds to a constant need of knowledge, the question of the availability of resources and the contextual increase, particularly in some policy areas, of the number of interventions to be implemented, has made more and more pressing the need to acquire useful information, in order to better allocate the available resources, after having analyzed the quality of the interventions and the tools used for their implementation.
The centrality that the evaluation question is assuming, in increasingly differentiated areas of the country's life, the existence of multiple ways of understanding evaluation and the presence of even very heterogeneous practices, stimulate interest in the topic and make it the object of attention in many disciplinary fields.
This edition aims to collect both contributions with a theoretical approach and contributions with analysis of experiences in the fields of interest, with both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
The submission must be accompanied by the indication of the section for which the
contribution is applied.
- Essays section;
- Rubrics section.
It is strictly necessary that each abstract proposal is accompanied by the following information:
- Name and surname of the author/s;
- Affiliation and/or membership institution/organization;
- Role held;
- Contact details of each author contributing to the issue;
- Indication and email of the contact person.
All essays are refereed using the double-blind technique.
It is necessary to refer both to the deadlines indicated and to the editorial rules. Failure to comply with the editorial rules will be the cause of exclusion.
Abstract proposals must be sent to the editorial staff and curators:
redazione.quadernicomunita@unilink.it
and:
- Concetta Fonzo, c.fonzo@inapp.gov.it
- Laura Evangelista, l.evangelista@inapp.gov.it;
Writing in object: Call for Paper Year V n.2/August 2025: The challenges and opportunities of evaluation: from theory to practice.
The Papers must be submitted exclusively, after the author's registration, through the online portal available at the following link: https://www.quadernidicomunita.it/index.php/qdc/user/register
The Editorial Guidelines are available at the following links:
CONTRIBUTIONS LANGUAGE
Italian/Spanish and English
DEADLINES
31 JAN 2025:
- Abstract submission (max 500 characters) in Italian/Spanish
and in English; - 5 keywords (in Italian/Spanish
and English)
28 FEB 2025:
Confirmation of abstract acceptance
30 APR 2025:
Submission of papers
30 MAY 2025:
Notification of referee results
30 JUN 2025:
Revisions and changes to papers suggested by Referees
31 JULY 2025:
Editing
To download the full text of the call: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t63qJEkSZcN695UnD7CBbE4BNV6sVeEa/view?usp=sharing
