Educational Quality and Innovation Research

The general objective of improving the quality of teaching has become necessary for those in charge of the management and administration of all educational services.

Data is consistently more abundant concerning the evolution of teaching indicators and their effect on school performance, supplied by international actors of evaluation and measurement. At the same time, the demands from citizens with respect to the quality of service, the transparency of results, and the efficiency of administration of economic resources and accountability makes a permanent revision of educational policy necessary.

Objectives

Among the objectives of the Institute is the priority of supplying those responsible for administering education with proposals that attend to the needs identified by those in charge of the design and implementation of educational policy and for its adaptation to the specific characteristics of the Autonomous Community. A  line of analysis focused on quality and innovation is made available which strives to provide, among other services, a comprehensive counsel and a system for the development, betterment and analysis of the policies and instruments utilized for educational evaluation.

Reports, Courses and Seminars

• “Effects of Linguistic Immersion on Spanish-Speaking Students in Catalonia“. Jorge Calero, Álvaro Choi. February 2019.
• Checking the education system in Andalucía: Executive Summary. Presentation. Miguel Ángel Sancho. September 2018.
• Indicators on the State of the Spanish Education System 2018. Ramón Areces Foundation and European Foundation Society and Education. 2018.
• Indicators on the State of the Spanish Education System 2017. Ramón Areces Foundation and European Foundation Society and Education. 2017.
• Miguel Ángel Sancho, President of the Foundation, gave a presentation titled “The State of the Education System in Spain and Andalucía 2017” at the Cruzcampo Foundation in collaboration with The Economy and Society Circle (CEYS).
• “The PISA Effect: Beyond Methodology and Comparison” summer course at the Complutense University of Madrid coordinated by the Ramón Areces Foundation and the European Foundation Society and Education with the participation of Alfonso Echazarra (presentation), Jorge Calero (presentation), Javier García Crespo (presentation), Xabier Aizpurúa (presentation), Daniel Santín (presentation), and Sylvia Montoya (presentation), among others. July 2017.
• “The evaluation of the quality of teaching.” Jan Bietenbeck. University of Lund. With the collaboration of the Ramón Areces Foundation. May 2017.
• MET Project: “Evaluation as a tool to improve the system.” Alejandro Ganimian. Listen to the audio of the coverence here. April 2017
• “Why educational evaluation should be institutionalized.” Laura López-Torres, Diego Prior and Daniel Santín. March 2017
• “The quality of teaching in the aquisition of student competence. An analysis based on PIRLS-2011.” Jorge Calero and J. Oriol Escardíbul. Feb 2017.
• Presentation “Debating educational evaluations“. Gabriela Sicilia. CECE Congress. 2016.
• Comments indicated about the Spanish educational system. Ramón Areces Foundation and the European Foundation for Society and Education. 2016
• Basic indications about the state of the Spanish educational system. Ramón Areces Foundation and the European Foundation for Society and Education. 2015
• Reflections on the Spanish educational system. In collaboration with the Ramón Areces Foundation. 2015
• Seminar “The strengths and weaknesses of PISA for the design of educational politics.” Organized by the foundations Ramon Areces and Society and Education. October 2015.
• II INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING ON LIBERTY AND QUALITY OF TEACHING. “Educational results in Spain and their relation to the European situation.” (Abstract).  Miguel Angel Sancho. Zaragoza April 3rd, 2014.
• Research project: “Matrix of Specifications for the Tests of Access to Cycles of Professional Training of the Educational System.” In collaboration with the Fundación Euskoiker, commissioned by the Minister of Education.
• Research project: “Differences in gender and professional orientation” in collaboration with EASSE ESPAÑA.
• LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. Euroreport. Project. Paid for by el CRELL (Comisión Europea).
• “Spanish educational reform in the framework of new international trends and recommendations.” Document presented in the International Educational Leadership Conference: nurturing meaning in a context of change.
• Improving School Leadership. Final International Conference – OCDE. Copenhagen, 2008.
• Study of the school drop-out phenomenon in the Balearic Islands (Spain): context variants that affect the risk groups.International Conference. Potsdam, 2007.
• The role of school in the development of key competencies. Project presented before the European Commission (Program for Lifelong Learning) in collaboration with CRISM, Palacky University (Czech Republic), ELA (Belgium), Foundation Polska-Europe-Poland (Polonia) and the University of Malta. April 2007.
• Is educational leadership measurable? Seminar organized by the European Foundation Society and Education in collaboration with OCDE and the European Commission. (JRC-CRELL). Madrid, 2007.
• “Mission and leadership for the government of education.”
• “Cost effective from a school perspective and efficient inversion.”
• Presentations given in collaboration with the Center of International Studies in Educational Governance, Accountability and Management and with the Fondazione Alma Mater of the Universidad de Bolonia in the Quasi Mercati Seminar, challenges of the governance of the educational system. Bolonia, 2007.
• Liberty, quality and equity in educational systems (best international practices). Summer course in El Escorial 2006 (UCM and the Councillor of Education of CAM).
• Evaluation and innovation in the educational system. Summer course in El Escorial 2005. (UCM and the Councillor of Education of CAM.
• Observations on the MEC document “An education of quality for all and among all.”
• SERIES TO RETHINK EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Logroño, 2007. Conference on equality and equity in European education systems.
• Effects of the model Learning for Mastery in primary education. 2004.
• Proposals of support for comprehensive plans of Professional Qualifications and Training.