La institucionalización de la evaluación educativa no universitaria en España

This article analyses the process of evaluation institutionalization in the field of Spanish non-university education. We focus on the two main tendencies of the process. The first one is related to the development of evaluation practice. This development began in early eighties when some program evaluations were carried out in the context of the educational system reform. The second one has to do with the increasingly independence of evaluation from the more general educational research, i.e. with the emergence of evaluation as a specialized and specific field of work. We conclude with some critical considerations about the strengths and weaknesses of the institutionalization process and the problems that have to be faced in the next future.