This article focuses on basic, secondary and higher education learning evaluation. Its main objective is to debate the possibilities and limitations of how the learning evaluation can be a way to improve education quality that promotes social justice. Starting with an analysis of the international policies that associate evaluation to quality education, the article defines principles and characteristics that mark academic and legal debates pertaining to learning evaluation in Portugal. Based on this characterisation, similarities and differences, between these debates and evaluation practices, have been identified. The article ends with a reflection about the important role that learning evaluation play in a quality education that meets requisites for equity and social justice.
Learning evaluation; Education quality; Equity; Elementary higher education