Constance resolution

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An agreement of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs from 1997 is referred to as the Konstanz resolution , which marks the beginning of the so-called empirical turnaround in the reorientation of German education policy . It thus represents " an essential setting of the course in German school policy ".

background

Germany took part in the TIMS study for the first time in 1995 . TIMSS collected data on the performance of more than half a million students from around 15,000 schools in 46 countries and gained background information on teaching, teachers, schools and aspects of the students' extracurricular environment. For the first time (before the so-called “ PISA shock ”) there was empirical evidence of backwardness in certain areas of the German education system.

decision

The Conference of Ministers of Education reacted to this poor performance. In the so-called Konstanz resolution of October 24, 1997, the Standing Conference made quality assurance a focus of its work. The main initiator of this application was the Berlin Senator Zöllner . With the decision, participation in international (e.g. PISA ) and national comparative studies was determined and quality assurance was made a focus of their own work. At the same time, the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs emphasized that competition between the countries is an essential prerequisite for quality development.

Continuation

In the meantime, the data-based education policy has become more differentiated and in 2006 the KMK presented an overall strategy for education monitoring. This continued the Konstanz resolutions and defined four interrelated fields of activity, all of which are already indicated in the resolutions: international school performance surveys, central review of the achievement of educational standards in a country comparison, comparative work on nationwide verification of the performance of individual schools, joint educational reporting by the federal and state governments .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Overesch: How school policy (does not) solve its problems: Germany and Finland in comparison , Waxmann Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3830918372 , page 193 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ Volker Eschenbach: From Mainz to the Spree: Zöllner becomes Berlin Senator for Education. In: Spiegel Online . November 21, 2006, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Overall strategy for KMK education monitoring, accessed January 1, 2012