Local Contexts and the Possibilities for Teachers’ Participation in the Institutional Self-Evaluation Component of a Quality Assurance System

• In Event: Roundtable Session 73
  In Roundtable Session: Reenvisioning Schools as Institutions

Abstract

The School Management Quality Assurance System has been proposed by Chile´s Ministry of Education as a tool to support a bottom up approach to school improvement in Chile. The system proposes that all school actors must actively participate in order to feel ownership of the school’s problems and their resolution Through interviews conducted in six school implementing the system, data regarding perceptions of participation were produced. Results showed that teachers’ perceptions about their participation in the self-evaluation process of the SACG were mediated by how they described the school’s opportunities for participation. Contrasting opportunities were associated with contrasting goal orientation. These findings contribute to an understanding of how school culture influences the implementation of initiatives generated at a central level.

Authors

• Carmen Montecinos, Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Luis Ahumada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• Romina Madrid, University of Minnesota

• Maria Beatriz Fernandez Cofre, Boston College