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VIZCARRA HERLES, Nina Eleonor  y  PEREIRA, Elisabete Monteiro de Aguiar. Fundamentos en sistemas de evaluación de la educación superior: Colombia y Argentina. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.51, pp.138-166. ISSN 0103-6831.

Assessment is at the same time an urgent and complex matter due to society’s demands to improve their institutions and organizations. The research topic of this study belongs to the field of evaluation of higher education, the object of analysis are the conceptual foundations of evaluation and their presence in the design of Assessment Systems for Higher Education, taking into account the cases of Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. This article intends to organize a landmark reference of the evolution of the foundations of assessment, from assessment of learning up to institutional evaluation, based on contributions from Tyler, Cronbach, Scriven, Guba y Lincoln, House, and Stuff lebeam, as well as European and Latin Americans authors, to seek the reference of theoretical concepts that underlie the assessment systems. Finally, we analyzed and compared the characteristics of the conceptual basis of the higher education assessment systems mentioned above.

Palabras clave : Assessment of Education; Higher Education; Systems Analysis; Assessment Systems.

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