Overview
- Provides a comprehensive conceptualization of educational quality
- Provides an elaborate set of education indicators, formulated at system, school and classroom level
- Discusses alternative views on education quality
- Uses quality indicators to assess a national educational system
- Illustrates the use of education indicators to determine strong and weak points of a national education system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualisation of Educational Quality
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Quality Review of Dutch Primary and Secondary Education
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Back Matter
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About this book
The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates. Understood in the sense of education being “generally okay” , or rather, most frequently, as “not okay”. Perhaps there is an overruling nostalgic view that formerly education was better than today. In scholarly discourse there are those who maintain that the quality of education is an illusive term, with varying interpretations in different settings and by different stakeholders.
In this book the complexity of the concept of education quality is recognized, but a conceptual framework is presented that makes quality, despite its complexity, amenable to rational and empirical analysis. Productivity, equity, effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness of education systems are seen as key facets of quality. A concrete set of indicators is presented that makes for the measurement of these quality facets. In the second part of the book the quality framework is applied to an analysis of the quality of education in the Netherlands. Common sense in the Netherlands is dominated by the view that the quality of education is a course for serious concern. Some recent quality reviews take the same pessimistic outlook. However, the current overview of indicators on the Dutch system, seen from an international perspective, presents a picture that is much more positive. Still there is always room for improvement, in the case of the Netherlands this should probably be sought in diminishing the selectivity of the system as a way to improve participation in higher education.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Educational Quality
Book Subtitle: Illustrative Outcomes on Primary and Secondary Schooling in the Netherlands
Editors: Jaap Scheerens, Hans Luyten, Jan van Ravens
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0926-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Jaap Scheerens 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0925-6Published: 11 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0926-3Published: 29 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 148
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership