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
Processes Access
Learning Assessment Acquisition of
grade-specific
Management outcomes
Assessed of
Teaching Inputs Governance Progression
Technical Resources Physical environment Successful
Completion
Fiscal Resources Psycho-Social environment Optimum
Human Resources Attainment
Outcomes
Academic Knowledge Cognitive Skills

Generic core Skills Outputs Non-cognitive Skills

Learners

Graduates Citizenship

Relevance/
Responsiveness
 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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