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CECAP: Competencies and Evaluation.
Two ways towards quality education improvement

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2005
55p. (Technical office papers, 15)

(Full text only available in Spanish pdf format)

 

The process of continuous improvement is a way towards quality, not being unaware to vocational training institutions. By different ways, quality as a goal has become a common purpose of the educational institutions.

In this document the experience of CECAP is presented as well as its efforts to reach the quality in its answers. Not only its participation and achievements in the national quality award but also its institutional philosophy, stands out in the document presented.

 

Preliminary words
Rosa Márquez

I. CECAP: Towards quality

CECAP actions
Institutional definition
Institutional mission and vision
Objective population
Educational model
Selection process
Selection process stages
Academic activities
Workshops functioning
CECAP's workshops

II. CECAP: In search of quality education

Quality, a problem or an oportunity for CECAP?
Quality in education: a polysemous and complex term
Another look from the complexity and the multidimensionality of the concept

III. Education quality evaluation: a complex task

Evaluation dilemmas
From the educational speech to evaluation reality
The importance of approaching different levels and dimensions in evaluation
The expert evaluation of the Quality Committee
ISO standards in quality education evaluation
Institutional activities and processes

IV. Development of the experience: the process towards the National Education Quality Award

The postulation
The selection
The Basis of the Continuous Improvement Model of the NQC
The Preliminar Report
Prequalification and Extensive Report
Selected to be visited by those who evaluate
Both skill workshops postulate - Hairdresser's shop and Gardening
Large kitchen garden - receives the National Education Award 2003
The Retro Food Report (RF)
National Quality Award Process

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