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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES and DEVELOPMENT   
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                                              PALACIO DE MIRAMAR                                                      SAN SEBASTIAN, JUNE 24-26, 2015

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Ismael Sanz Labrador
Director, National Institute Educational Evaluation, (Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport). Spain
Director of the National Institute of Educational Evaluation of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports since January 2012. He obtained his PhD in Economics and Business from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is professor of Applied Economics in the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid. He attended some courses and did research internships at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Australian National University, Complutense Royal College of Harvard University and University of Nottingham.
His interests are focused on quality and improvement of education, educational assessment, fiscal politics, economic growth and globalization. He has published many works in these fields in both national and international journals, such as the European Journal of Political Economy, European Political Economy Review, International Journal of Forecasting, and Papeles de Economía Española among others. He has also collaborated with collective works and elaborated reports for the World Bank and the Department of Treasury of New Zealand. He has participated in many national and international conferences. He was Consultant of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister of the Government of Madrid and Deputy Director of the Evaluation and Analysis Unit of the same ministry.


CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
National Assessment of 3rd and 6th years of “Primary School”

The conference “National Assessment of 3rd and 6th years of Primary School” aims to make public the general frameworks for the assessments of third and sixth years of Primary School, drawned up with the contributions from different units of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y deporte, MECD, in Spain) and from autonomous communities.   
These individualised assessments for all pupils in third and sixth year of Primary School:
1.    Complete and enrich the information and orientation that pupils, their families and centres get.
2.   Provide information to educational centres, with the goal of the review of the teaching and learning processes and the educational improvement from the results.
3.   Enable improve by means of having available more information and of the feedback between assessment and teaching practice, with the aim of making the most correct decisions.
4.    Aditionally, make easier, in the third year, that all students get the specific support measures that they need to.
Furthermore, examples of assessment units will be presented for their dissemination among the school community.