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This project intends to produce knowledge in the field of evaluation in education, especially in «grouped-schools» self-evaluation (in Portuguese: Auto-avaliação em Agrupamento de Escolas), namely, in order to contribute to teaching, schools and education improvement.
This research project emerges from an advanced training course on Evaluation in Education and from the development of an External Evaluation Study of a European Union Program related to professional training financed by the European Social Funds. In this Study was developed an evaluation model designated "Institutional Evaluation", whose scientific and methodological framework's are Institutional Analysis, the formative dimensions of evaluation, the Clinical Approach and the Complexity paradigm (Cf. State of the Art). The research project will be focused in the following key axis: a) the deepening and renewing of the knowledge about the subject of self-evaluation in «grouped-schools» and its relation to the quality improvement on schools and education; b) conceiving methodological procedures relevant to produce evaluation and couselling in the context of «grouped-schools»; c) reflexion about the self-evaluation effects and its articulation with the change of professional identities of different training grades teachers (in Portuguese: Ciclos de Ensino); d) reflexion about the relation between «grouped-schools» self-evaluation and their organizational life-cycle's dynamics. It is also expected that the development of this research project will allow - furthermore the results pointed out below- a multiplying effect of its research potential through its relation to individual advanced training projects (Master degree and Doctorate research projects). |