Educational System Evaluation and Quality

This book belongs to the Educational Series collection, which combines studies whose central theme lies in the broad field of Education Sciences. Its fundamental objective is to disseminate academic works that represent important contributions to knowledge in this field from both a theoretical and practical perspective. All of them help to understand and improve educational processes in various contexts. It mainly consists of monographs, edited volumes, and critical essays that address, with conceptual and methodological rigor, crucial topics such as teaching, educational policy, the psychology of learning, educational technology, and assessment. Within this structure, the “Research Methods” subseries is specifically dedicated to the study and in-depth analysis of research methodologies applied to the field of education. It aims to offer researchers, teachers, and graduate students a rigorous analysis of the various approaches (quantitative, qualitative, mixed), research designs, data collection, analysis techniques, and the ethical and epistemological considerations inherent in scientific inquiry in education. These works explore both general methodological frameworks and specific approaches to particular areas. Among them is this contribution, “Educational System Evaluation and Quality,” a high-quality work that offers a new theoretical construct on educational evaluation, focusing on the most methodologically complex type of evaluation: the evaluation of an educational system. The work offers a detailed guide to what this evaluation should mean today, considering it the best instrument and driving force for improving the quality of teaching. This work can be valuable to many education professionals, from education managers and researchers to teachers at different academic levels, who will find it rigorously scientific, useful, and innovative work.