Transcript A comprehensive reference framework for quality in education ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review Regional Preparatory meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean “Key Education Challenges.

A comprehensive reference framework
for quality in education
ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
Regional Preparatory meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean
“Key Education Challenges in
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Teachers, Quality, and Equity”
12-13 May 2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina
UNESCO
 Committed to facilitate global understanding
of Quality of Education
 In progress…
 Objective: enhance national technical
capacity to analyze/diagnose, improve and
monitor the quality of their general education
systems
 Jointly with Members States and others
International Agencies that work on
development and education.
Right to quality education for all
 Education
 Key for country development and economic
prosperity
 Prepares people to embrace and adapt to
change but also to manage and influence it.
 Creates mutual understanding and
underpins peaceful societies.
 A human right
 A public good
 Long life….
EFA Goal 6 Remains a Challenge
 Undeniable progress toward expanding
access to education.
 It has not been met by comparable
progress in improving education quality.
What Do We Mean by Education Quality?
Frequent approach: quality is equal to the
efficiency and effectiveness
Multidimensional concept
Implies a value judgment
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What Do We Mean by Education Quality?
A broad concept of quality education:
Effective
Relevant or responsive,
Equitable,
Efficient
As denoting substantive access
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Elements of the Framework
Equity/Inclusion
Efficiency
Substantive
Access
Processes
Assessment
Learning
Management
Inputs
Teaching
Technical Resources
Physical environment
Fiscal Resources
Human Resources
Psycho-Social environment
Outcomes
Cognitive Skills
Academic Knowledge
Generic core Skills
Governance
Outputs
Non-cognitive Skills
• Learners
• Graduates
• Citizenship
Relevance/
Responsiveness
•Acquisition of
grade-specific
outcomes
•Assessed of
Progression
• Successful
Completion
• Optimum
Attainment
Constraints to Education
Quality Improvement Efforts
limited in scope
The tendency to address pre-defined
challenges and to generalize them
Fragmented interventions
Impatience with comprehensive diagnostics
that should precede and ‘accompany’ quality
improvement interventions
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Beyond 2015 - Where do we
go from here?
 Rethinking quality of education:
how do the various aspects of quality
relate to each other? Pedagogical
methods, assessment of and for
learning, 21st century skills, etc.
Education convergence in LAC
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Thank you
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