01-10-2007
30-09-2010
This project aims to produce knowledge about evaluation in education, specifically with regard to self-evaluation in school groupings, with a view to improving the quality of teaching, schools and education. The research work to be carried out follows on from the completion of an advanced training course in Education Evaluation and the development of an External Evaluation Study of a Community Measure relating to vocational training, with ESF funding. As part of this study, a composite evaluation model was developed, called ‘Institutional Evaluation’, whose scientific and methodological matrices are Institutional Analysis, the Formative/Formative dimensions of evaluation, the Clinical Approach and Complexity (see, in particular, the state of the art in this project)
The research work will be centred around the following main axes: a) deepening and renewing knowledge regarding the problem of self-evaluation in school districts and its link to improving the quality of schools and education; b) designing relevant methodological devices for producing evaluation and monitoring in the school district context; c) reflecting on the effects produced by self-evaluation and its link to transformations in the professional identities of the various teachers in the teaching cycles present in school districts; d) reflecting on the relationship between self-evaluation in school districts and the dynamics of their respective organisational life cycles. The development of this project also expects not only the results indicated in the specific section of this application, but also a multiplier effect of its research potential, through its articulation with individual advanced training projects (Master's and PhD).
FPCEUP Maria Manuela Martins Alves Terrasêca – investigadora Principal
FPCEUP João Carlos Pereira Caramelo
FPCEUP Manuel Santos e Matos
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
PTDC/CED/72181/2006
CIIE / Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto FPCEUP - Portugal