ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE EDUCATION PROGRAMS: QUALITY STANDARDS

The evaluation of educational programmes in the field of heritage must be a goal of the first order to achieve excellence in educational quality, however, this factor presents notable absences from theory and practice. The objective of this article is to deepen the genealogy of evaluative research within the heritage education discipline, through a review of scientific production, doctoral dissertations and R+D+I projects that partially or totally address the evaluation of heritage education programmes. The main contribution of this study is the definition of 14 quality standards derived from the systematic analysis of heritage education programs developed by the OEPE, which represent action keys for future educational designs and that have shaped the Q-Edutage scale as a tool pioneer for the evaluation of the quality of educational designs.