Hogan, Pádraig (2023) Large-Scale Research and the Question of Educational Experience: Recovering the Heart of the Matter. Revista Internacional de Teoría e Investigación Educativa, 1. e88410. ISSN 2990-1936

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Abstract

The international rise of large-scale evaluations of quality in education in recent decades has been accompanied, ironically, by a major neglect of the issue of quality itself. This is mainly because of fundamental shortcomings in the design of most large-scale evaluation programmes. In programmes like PISA, TALIS and SABER-Teachers, the central but intricate questions of quality become defined as questions of indexed quantity, thus deflecting the former to the margins, or out of the picture. Beginning with a review of the points just mentioned, this contribution then proceeds to identify and investigate some key inadequacies in the conceptions of evidence employed by large-scale evaluation programmes. Deficiencies in their gathering of evidence are likewise examined. A comparative perspective is also included to reveal overlooked exclusions in the supposedly neutral PISA instruments. The manifold character of what an adequate research exploration of quality in educational experience would look like is then investigated. Finally, the case is made for advancing the kind of evaluation programme that includes an adequate understanding of quality in education and that does justice to this in its research design.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	evidence; resonance; experience; quality; research design;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Education
Item ID:	18297
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.5209/ritie.88410
Depositing User:	Dr. Padraig Hogan,
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2024 12:44
Journal or Publication Title:	Revista Internacional de Teoría e Investigación Educativa
Publisher:	Universidad Complutense Madrid
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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