The paper aims to show that the irresolution of the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research (ANVUR) referred to its institutional position derives from a ungoverned hybridization of the reform of the University with the type of evaluation that has been considered as part of the reform administrations. This irresolution destroys the technical role of the Agency, which prevents it improve the role that the law has assigned, of support of the activities of evaluation and selfevaluation of universities; it hinders the diffusion of reflective practices, and, with this, the development of an effective institutional evaluation. After explaining the regulatory steps that have made this possible, the work focuses on the three evaluation exercises hitherto made, to show how the limitations and distortions with which ANVUR is born created obstacles to the diffusion of the culture of evaluation in the universities.
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