Educational evaluation

Under educational Controlling refers to the regular control, monitoring and planning of training and the quality of public and private training providers. Educational Controlling ( also: Training Evaluation ) is a task of education management.

Concept of education controlling

Training Evaluation is from grammatical point of view a Composite: The root word Controlling corresponds to the following basic word that is grammatically superior; the root word formation corresponds to the determination preceded by a word that subordinated grammatically, in the meaning, however, is determinative. Training Evaluation is therefore a related to education controlling. It refers in the broadest sense, the supply of carriers of education-related decisions in this regard relevant information.

Importance of education controlling

The term education controlling is practically applied today in various fields. For example, training programs are offered under the heading of education controlling and demand in job ads targeted knowledge to education controlling.

But also in science is the term education controlling attention now: it is regularly used in scientific publications and reported in many reference works already as a separate keyword. Were detected increasing research activities and is shown to Bildungscontrolling represents a relevant current research topic.

Application areas of education controlling

Training Evaluation can be applied in principle wherever education-related decisions are made, for example in schools and universities, but also for other education providers such as community colleges. The main focus of the term is also used currently in the field of vocational training.

Criticism of the concept of corporate education controlling

In the operational context of education controlling is consistently related to the qualification of the employees in terms of a purpose-related business discipline. As other areas of the educational concept of education are excluded as far as possible, was encouraged to speak in this context instead of education future of qualification controlling.

Tasks and methods

In order to prevent abuse and to protect the consumer from black sheep among the education providers to their offers are questioned on their quality. This happens u.U. even with a satisfaction survey at the end of a learning unit ( a seminar ), can concentrate on the impact of successful training, but should always pay attention to the quality of the speakers and on the framework of the educational process, a meaningful analysis of longer-term, process- changing effects of education involving the workplace.

The self-imposed review of educational processes through certification ( CERTQUA ) is a step in this direction. Less determined by others is the way of the continuous improvement process (CIP ) or total quality management, which will be included in an education process involved in the assessment and ultimately need to be empowered to develop their own criteria and their teaching behavior through constant pedagogical reflection on.

However, a certification of educational concepts can only record the frame, but can not guarantee the planning of the educational process, the quality of its implementation. This procedure is always subject to the accusation of being a stranger determinative, it is not derived but from the educational process itself forth; it may therefore the complexity of the educational process are only partially met if it measures education in analogy to technical processes.

An evaluation by the participants themselves can include as little directly on quality back. Whether the learner the Lernzumutung has lived, can be (conditionally ) rise by tests; However, there can only turn - the educational concerns constraining - individual facts and thought patterns are detected.

It is critical to note that the question of an educational evaluation is posed especially in times of scarce resources; also this is an indication that controlling in education mostly foreign education motivated and thus may is counterproductive. Education is not the same degree certifiable as the production of a technical device. The criteria for the quality of teaching-learning process are created in the minds of the participants, the change in this awareness is a goal of the assessed educational process, consequently, of the same quality are presented difficult objective.

Education controlling in different countries

United States

In the school system of the United States, where in place of the didactic instruction, the design, that is the systematic planning, development and evaluation of learning environments and materials occurs, educational Controlling to a much greater extent than is usual about in Germany. So the American states regularly conduct censuses ( state tests) the competence of students of all grade levels, for example in the areas of math and reading through.

Private schools that a much larger proportion of children beschulen in the U.S. than in Europe, often undergo voluntarily to a comprehensive quality check when they characterized the recognition by a respected accreditation organization such as the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools or hoping to get Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Footnotes

• Power ( pedagogy)
• Education Management