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Looney, Janet W. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
Do some forms of student (and school) assessment hinder the introduction of innovative educational practices and the development of innovation skills in education systems? This report focuses on the impact of high-stake summative assessment on innovation and argues that it is possible to reconcile high-stakes assessments and examinations through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Summative Evaluation
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Gomez, Pedro; Gonzalez, Maria Jose; Gil, Francisco; Lupianez, Jose Luiz; Moreno, Maria Francisco; Rico, Luis; Romero, Isabel – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program's competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Vizcarro, Carmen; Yaniz, Concepcion – International Journal for Academic Development, 2004
In this paper, the impact of the creation of the European Area of Higher Education (EAHE) on Spanish tertiary education is analysed from the standpoint of educational improvement and academic development. First, the recent history of the HE system in Spain is summarised in order to understand the context in which this reform is taking place. Then,…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries