IAVE - Instituto de Avaliação Educativa, I.P. (Institute of Educational Assessment)

For over 25 years, we have been the body responsible for external evaluation in Portugal.

Since 2013, the year in which the Institute of Educational Assessment, IP (IAVE), succeeded the Office of Educational Assessment (GAVE), we have been a public institute with a special regime endowed with pedagogical, scientific, administrative and financial autonomy, which is recognized by law as having technical and professional independence in the exercise of its functions.

We are partners of the services and organizations of the Ministry of Education whose activities are related to teaching and professional training of teachers. We govern our actions by principles of impartiality, transparency and technical and scientific rigor, respecting current educational policy.

The main purpose of our work is to promote the continuous improvement of the educational system, contributing to its quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

We want to promote innovation and technological modernization in administrative management, teacher training, the design, application and classification of assessment instruments and the processing and sharing of information generated by the analysis of assessment results.

We want to evaluate to know and to make known; we want to learn to do better and help to learn.