Decades of positivist dominance in operating qualityassessment: the need to think and build a paradigm-other

Abstract

This work was performed under the Research Project: PROICO No. 22 / H432 "The quality assessment as a policy for improving secondary education. Its incidence in San Luis" Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina) The objective was analyze the epistemological basis underlying operational evaluation of quality. To this end we worked with national and international documents that allowed examine the theoretical and epistemological foundations.The results described positivist decades of dominance, the hegemonic adoption of its epistemological foundations in different areas, the uncritical acceptance and contribution to research practices that fixed and fixed prescriptions and proscriptions. Talking decades of dominance as positivist epistemological basis of operational quality assessment seeks to highlight the assumptions and arguments coming years holding international and national agencies or rather "experts" in the subject. Such arguments do nothing but invisible other epistemological positions that have been subjugated by a position that is presented as the only way to assess the quality or think the quality of education; from here; the need to think a paradigm-other.