Políticas de avaliação docente da OCDE: Uma aproximação à experiência na educação básica mexicana

Abstract

In the year 2008 Mexico signed with the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) an agreement in order to improve the quality of basic education. The main purpose of this document was the implementation of eight strategic guidelines oriented to the assessment of teachers by means of accountability and teachers’ training. In response, the Mexican government implemented a reform that integrated the assessment of teaching performance within basic education as a process to regulate entry into the profession, permanence of service, incentive awards, and the promotion to school management positions. The purpose of this article is, on one hand, to analyze to what extent the country, and the educational reform that has been implemented, complied with the teaching assessment policies suggested by the OECD; on the other hand, it tries to identify the nuances in policies experienced in this reform. The need to follow up on the eight recommendations led to a documentary review, and the analysis shows how the Mexican experience pays more attention to actions oriented to assessing teacher accountability but does not take enough into account the problems of teachers’ training.