Abstract

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:

1. Deepening and renewing knowledge regarding the problem of self-evaluation in Groupings and its link to improving the quality of schools and education.


2. Designing relevant methodological devices for producing evaluation and monitoring in a Grouping context.


3. 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 Groupings.


4. Reflecting on the relationship between self-evaluation in Groupings 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).

Members project:

• João Carlos Pereira Caramelo


• Manuel Santos e Matos


• Maria Manuela Martins Alves Terrasêca

Funding

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia
PTDC/CED/72181/2006

Principal Investigator

Team

João Caramelo

Partners

CIIE\Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto