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The standardized learning achievement tests applied in Chile during the last two decades have been extremely useful to those designing the educational policies intended to improve education in the country. They have made it possible to identify critical issues related to quality and equity and to drive systemic solutions to those problems. These tests have also had an important influence on the way the concept of education quality has been understood and utilized in Chile. Their results are used in most of the public discussion on education and they have become the main tool for evaluating the quality of education in the country.
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Téllez, F., Ramírez, M.J. (2012). Education Quality. In: Acedo, C., Adams, D., Popa, S. (eds) Quality and Qualities. Comparative and International Education, vol 16. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-951-0_10
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