Evaluation in Education - What Challenges? Reflections and Prospections Looking for Quality

Abstract

In this article, I start by questioning myself about what it is meant by ‘evaluation’, what are the contributions to the education world. In a first moment I read some specialists and scholars who during the last decades have been looking into this issue / problem. Secondly, I try to identify and understand ‘evaluation’ in terms of implementing strategies and open routes for the school / academic success. The teaching process is therefore concerned, the process that the teacher organizes to create conditions for the improvement of the student learning. The questioning is oriented to identify and understand the evaluation in terms of the institutional strategies to implement and the new ways to be opened so as to improve the learning outcomes of my students. What is in focus in this article it is the teaching process, the strategies I call to create conditions for the improvement of student learning. The theory is addressed; case studies are focused; dialectics is established; the opportunity to reflect and to look forward then arises as a result, i.e., the possibility of a new project comes up, always having in mind the opportunity to reflect and look forward for a new time and in another context, an oriented action / evaluation leading to the improvement of learning.