Institutional Assessment: Between Political Pressing Needs and School Improvement Needs

This article presents, through a critical analysis, a reflection on a noticeable change that focuses on some aspects related to the assessment of different parts of the educational system. In particular, it concentrates on the assessment of teaching institutions which has been considered by authorit...

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Published in:Policy futures in education 2014-03, Vol.12 (3), p.445-454
Main Author: Méndez, Juan Manuel álvarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Economic Factors
Educational Assessment
Educational Change
Educational Quality
Governance
Institutional Evaluation
Meta Analysis
Neoliberalism
Political Issues
Politics of Education
Standardized Tests
Teacher Evaluation
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Summary:This article presents, through a critical analysis, a reflection on a noticeable change that focuses on some aspects related to the assessment of different parts of the educational system. In particular, it concentrates on the assessment of teaching institutions which has been considered by authorities that are distant from the school life and from what takes place in the classrooms; an assessment that affects both the teaching institutions and the social organisations, and that has the teachers as its main objective. This is a new approach whose origin can be found in the political demands of a neo-liberal ideology.
ISSN:1478-2103
1478-2103
DOI:10.2304/pfie.2014.12.3.445