Evaluation In Compulsory Secondary Education In The Last 40 Years In Spain

What Can We Learn From The Past?

Abstract

The main aim of this paper has been to analyze the treatment that major education laws have given to assessment in the recent decades in our country, focusing on the Compulsory Secondary Education and so, to share several ending recommendations and discover points for reflection. The methology has been based on the analysis of the rules of the four main Spanish Educational Laws since 1970 and their regulations, with the help of our professional points of view. In the general introduction, we place these laws in the specific socio-political context and we discover their most important ideas. After that, we present a brief analysis and several comparative boards about the following topics: assessment treatment, characteristics of the assessment, promotion, certification criteria. For this, the specific socio-cultural characteristics of the Canary Islands have been taken into account.