During the last decade, there has been significant improvement in Salvadorans education, in an international context which reaffirms the importance of education as key strategy for the progress of nations. The Educational Reform, promoted since the 90s, has obtained initial achievements in expanding the access of education, improving quality of…
Since we introduced the first report on Educational Progress September 2002 until 2005, El Salvador has made important advances in education. The results of primary and secondary education achievement tests have had a modest increase, although most students are still located at the intermediate level. Enrollment in primary (first and…
La validez es un juicio evaluativo integrado del grado hasta el cual, tanto la evidencia empírica como las justificaciones teóricas apoyan la adecuación y la pertinencia de las interpretaciones y las acciones basadas en los puntajes de pruebas u otros tipos de medición. Los principios de la validez se aplican…
During the 90s , particularly since 1992 , at least 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean began operating some kind of national learning assessment system.
The teacher performance evaluation is a reality that seems to be here to stay in an important and growing majority of Latin American countries. A working paper by UNESCO (Murillo, 2007) finds that only two countries in the region –Nicaragua and Paraguay- have not yet considered the design and implementation…
Characterized by fragmentation and instability, Ecuador has reached an agreement on the need to achieve universal basic education. Although there have been significant efforts in this regard, during the last two decades, there are still children in rural areas who do not yet attend school. Nor do all children in…
En este libro se intenta aportar luces al debate y amplir nuestra comprensión de la función de la educación privada en América Latina. En él se describe el actual conjunto de políticas y relaciones que vincula a los sectores público y privado en una diversidad de países de la región.…
This document collects thoughts built by el Programa Alianzas Empresa Educaciom (Education Partnership Program) during their years of existence around practices responsible for the private sector that aims to work with primary and secondary education. The document is divided in the following chapters: the private sector’s intervention in education, the…
Like other developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters.
During the 80s and 90s, most Latin American countries pushed transformations that led to a much more favorable educational system than the one in the past decades. Educational reforms were characterized by institutional changes; the adoption of quality measurement systems and evaluation of learning outcomes; the review of curricula and…
In the United States, 49 states already have educational standards (in Iowa they do not exist, but rather each school district-371 in total- has developed their own). The standards and the accountability systems to which they belong , have become the main instrument of public policy, which aim to improve…
In recent years, various international and regional organizations have recommended that Latin American countries participate in international academic assessments. This suggestion is based on the argument that the performance results are very useful to inform countries about the quality of their education systems, and consequently about their competitiveness in global…
In the past five years the country has showed progress in education. More children and youth are enrolled, dropout and repetition rates have decrease, teacher trainings have improved and there is a new system for entering and moving up the career ladder based on performance. In addition, resources for this…
Panama is currently transforming its education system. Although many of our education indicators are the best in Central America, there are still inequalities in school access and quality, as a still low enrollment in preschool, secondary and higher education. This situation affects adversely the productive force of the country. Without…
Se ha comprobado que la educación primaria es fundamental para el desarrollo económico y social a largo plazo. A pesar de que muchos países de América Latina y el Caribe están plenamente conscientes de la importancia de lograr mejoras en la calidad de la educación, aún falta mucho por hacer.…
