Evaluating schools and education systems. Better less but better

Journal title CADMO
Author/s Bruno Losito
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 79-90 File size 182 KB
DOI 10.3280/CAD2013-001006
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

The article focuses on the evaluation initiatives and projects carried out in Italy in the recent years. It considers different projects aiming at evaluating the school system, the individual schools, and the universities. The purpose is to make explicit the conceptual and methodological assumptions behind them and to illustrate their impact on school and university teachers’ perceptions of assessment and evaluation. Particular attention is paid to the assessments carried out by the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System. The article also discusses the relationships between evaluation and educational policies.

Keywords: Evaluation, school self-evaluation, system evaluation, educational policies

  1. Cassese, S. (2012), L’Anvur ha ucciso la valutazione. Viva la valutazione!, relazione al convegno “Il sistema dell’università e della ricerca. Fatti leggende futuro”, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani, 15 novembre, http://www.roars.it/online/lanvur-ha-ucciso-la-valutazione-viva-la-valutazione.
  2. Creemers, B.P.M., Kyriakides, L., Sammons, P. (2010), Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research, London: Routledge.
  3. De.Se.Co. (2002), The Definition and Selection of Key Competencies. Executive Summary, OECD, http://www.portal-stat.admin.ch/deseco/news.htm, Eurydice, Key Competencies, Brussels: Eurydice.
  4. National Association of State Boards of Education (2005), Evaluating Value-Added Assessment, Alexandria (VA): National Association of State Boards of Education. National Research Council and National Academy of Education (2010), Getting Value out of Value-Added, Washington, DC: The National Acedemy Press. OECD (2013), Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education. Synergies for Better Learning. An International Perspective on Evaluation and Assessment, Paris: OECD.
  5. Pellerey, M. (2004), Le competenze individuali e il portfolio, Firenze: La Nuova Italia.
  6. Pellerey, M. (2010), Competenze. Conoscenze, abilità, atteggiamenti, Napoli: Tecnodid.
  7. Rychen D.S., Salganik L.H. (eds.) (2001), Defining and Selecting Key Competencies, Hogrefe & Huber: Seattle.
  8. Scheerens, J., Bosker, R.J. (1997), The Foundation of Educational Effectiveness, Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.
  9. Schereens J., Glas, C., Thomas, M.S. (2003), Educational Evaluation, Assessment, and Monitoring. A Systematic Approach, London and New York: Taylor & Francis.
  10. Schratz, M., Jakobsen, L.B., MacBeath, J., Meuret, D. (2003), Autovalutazione e cambiamento attivo nella scuola, Trento: Erickson.

Bruno Losito, La valutazione del sistema di istruzione e delle scuole. Meglio meno, ma meglio in "CADMO" 1/2013, pp 79-90, DOI: 10.3280/CAD2013-001006