Issues of a Quality Approach in Educational Evaluation Engineering Facing the Massification of Higher Education

Abstract

For the members of the International Group on Educational Evaluation Engineering (IGE3), evaluation engineering concerns the design, implementation and quality analysis of evaluation activities in education. These activities are characterized by sequences of operations, devices, programs, or even complete systems of action. In this publication we will highlight the challenges of a quality approach in educational evaluation engineering in the context of the student boom in higher education, particularly in the first study levels of mass universities. After some considerations about higher education massification, we will explain the following issues: the impact of this massification on evaluation methods; the links with the advent of a culture of regulation and accountability in higher education; the contribution of the evaluation support centers (CEDAPEs) of the Erasmus+ CBHE project CORETEV to help faculty assess large groups of students with a high level of quality.