Curricular evaluation and research. An account of the work conducted at Mexico’s INEE

Abstract

This paper presents part of the conceptual systematization work that has allowed a group of officials to construct a practical proposal for the evaluation of the curriculum and which is based on the recovery of the logic of educational research, in order to demonstrate the potential that the qualitative and quantitative research methodology approaches have to evaluate the curricula as part of the educational policy of a country. 

Throughout this text the process of methodological construction that involved defining a work area of an educational evaluation institute in Mexico is addressed, as well as how this work has resulted in evaluations around different aspects of the curricula in order to allow the reader, especially those who are tasked with the evaluation of the curricula, to project new work scenarios in which methodological innovation is a characteristic.