Quality of Education

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Quality of Education

• What are important aspects and how to measure
  them?
• Group Discussion
• Report

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Group Members

• Cinara Custódio (Brasil) - Chair
• Anton de Grauwe (IIEP Paris)
• Catarina de Almeida Santos (UFSP, Brasil)
• Claudia Tamassia, Consultant, PRIE
• Luiz Dourado (UFG, Brazil)
• Maria Letícia Mota Moreira (UNDIME, Ceará,
  Brazil)
• Michael Bruneforth (UNESCO/UIS)
• Miguel Paz Garcia (Honduras)

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Quality

• Central to the process of teaching-learning
• The importance and clarification of the role of
• Teachers as active, rather than passive players
• Students in this process
• Issues of quality should be related to the
  teaching-learning process
• Basis for the selection of indicators/issue/variab
  les

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From a narrow point of view

• As parents, what would be the issues/variables/ind
  icators that we would consider when making the
  decision of where to send our children?

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but an essential element
As a parent, do I have a choice?
the availability of choice versus no-choice
would also restrict or expand the criteria the
idea of option is also important
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Some thoughts
Relative to the point of reference, for example,
rural versus urban expectations

• Performance results
• Disciplinary problems from the school point of
  view
• Violence
• Discipline
• Teacher absenteeism
• Administration
• Leadership
• Awareness of needs
• Pedagogical projects
• School reputation
• But, what is reputation?
• Environment

• Infrastructure
• Location of school
• Equipment
• Building quality
• Resources
• Physical
• Educational
• Teacher commitment
• Hours in school - classroom
• Hours in school other activities
• Assistance to students

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and much more
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more thoughts

• Involvement of the community
• In the teaching-learning process
• Sense of ownership for the school
• The school as part of the community
• In school hours but also after school hours
  including weekends
• Curriculum
• Wider
• Result oriented

• Teacher qualification and training
• Are they prepared to deal with particular
  problems
• Disciplinary problems
• Age/grade distortion
• Special needs
• The aggregate value of the school to the students
• Lunch program
• Transportation

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From a wider point of viewResponsibility of
Government

• Financing
• Hiring of teachers
• Process of selection
• Salaries
• Incentives
• Communication with unions, sindicatos,
  gremios
• Strikes
• External supervision Evaluation