An enlightened use of educational monitoring for Greece

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to discuss the issues surrounding educational monitoring systems.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper is a general review of the situation in Greece.

Findings

This paper suggests that a superior educational monitoring system aiming to alleviate educational and social inequalities as well as discrepancies between schools and/or between classrooms would rely on both attainment and progress criteria, as these criteria operate differently and allow to bring into the fore different aspects of problems/educational inadequacies.

Originality/value

The benefits and pitfalls associated with the employment of different criteria for educational monitoring are discussed, so that a new monitoring system can be suggested for the Greek setting of public primary and secondary schools.

Citation

Korilaki, P. (2006), "An enlightened use of educational monitoring for Greece", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 415-438. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513540610683685