JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

Volume 6, 2005, Special issue

Proceedings of the International Conference on Institutional Evaluation Techniques in Education (ICIETE)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL

EVALUATION TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION, ICIETE 2005

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Professor Kyriakos Kioulafas

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Chairman of the Organizing Committee

Nikos Kiapes

Chairman, Research and Training Institute of East Aegean

Protopapadakis Vaggelis, PhD

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Papadimitriou Thanos, PhD Candidate

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Pardalis Dimitris

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Papadakaki Maria, Conference Director (iciete@ineag.gr )

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Yiasmin Kioulafa

Research and Training Institute of East Aegean

Tzilas Kostas

Internet Manager-Developer, Nextweb

Kioulafas Alexis

Technical Support, Research and Training

Institute of East Aegean

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Professor Yuri Orlik

Javeriana University, Colombia

Professor Rosaria Justi

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Professor Liberato Cardellini

University of Ascona , Italy

Professor Baiba Briede

Latvia University of Agriculture

Professor Marina Miguez

University of de la Republica, Uruguay

Sarantos Psycharis

University of the Aegean

ORGANIZERS

Research and Training Institute of East Aegean

with the kind cooperation of the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Group of Science Education

SPONSORS

Hellenic Ministry

of Economy and Finance

Hellenic Ministry

of Culture

EPEAEK

INTRODUCTION

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION

TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION, ICIETE 2005

ICIETE 2005 is the first conference on Institutional Evaluation Techniques in Education, to be held on Samos Island Greece, July 1-3, 2005. It represents a very first effort to a rather important scientific field. Without any doubt is a difficult but at the same time interesting task.

ICIETE 2005 will seek to address the new perspectives of education and training systems imposed by their ever-changing role in an evolving multi cultural social environment. Aiming at a competitive and dynamic Knowledge - based society, capable of sustaining economic growth combined with social cohesion, European education should in advance focus on teacher/trainer competence and evaluation of educational systems as a whole.

Providing keynote speakers, plenary sessions and workshops, the conference will provide

participants with a forum for intensive interdisciplinary interaction and collegial debate. Those attending ICIETE Samos 2005 will acquire an excellent overview of current thinking and practices in applications of evaluation to education. Thematic streams will include alternative processes, procedures, techniques and tools for creating learning environments and teacher capabilities competent with the twenty-first century demands in education. The wide range of topics and high level of discussions will surely guarantee a very successful conference.

At this point we would like to express our special thanks to all who have contributed to the

organization and scientific contents of the conference. First of all we would like to thank the authors of the articles that are going to be presented to ICIETE 2005. Their contribution is crucial and guaranties a venue for a number of discussions. Then we would like to thank the reviewers and the members of the scientific committee and specially Professor Orlik for his numerous contributions.

Finally we would like to thank the staff at the Research and Training Institute of the East Aegean.

On behalf the Organizing Committee we welcome you to Samos Island and to ICIETE 2005.

Professor Kyriakos Emm. Kioulafas

Faculty of Economics

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens