CIMQUSEF8: 8^th International Conference on Quality in Education

The orientation of educative policies and the choice of the reforms to adopt are now getting based on the indicators arsenal. Most of the countries – developed or developing countries – are following an education management logic taking its roots in common criteria’s allowing the comparison between countries. In practical terms, several mechanisms are used to facilitate such a management, thinking for example about internals or externals audits and evaluations of education and training institutions, allowing to feed the intentional education reports such as «the key figures of education In Europe », « the key figures of higher education In Europe », « the collection of education worldwide data’s», «the sights on education, the OECD indicators ».

The international studies from the IEA (PIRLS & TIMSS), from the PISA, from the UNESCO (MLA), from the CONFEMEN (PASEC) and from SACMEQ allow another kind of management based on students’ skills evaluation. The countries taking part to these studies are sharing the technical expertness on the ground of evaluation and are disposing of a real dashboard which is offering to them an evaluation of their system and allowing them to compare their performances with others.

The CIMQUSEF8 has treated the theme:"The management of education and training by indicators".