Educational Innovation in Spain: a Descriptive Study from the Data Contained in REDINED

Abstract

Educative innovation goes beyond changes in methodology and teaching. It suggests an ideological reflection that is always within a particular context. This is the reason for the great difficulty in applying resources or materials into a particular context derived from the educative innovation without a thorough debate. In this paper, we propose a research that combines the active process of the information found in the records of educational innovation within the REDINED Data Base, and to examine it within a quantitative and qualitative framework. Introducing the technical side of the study, we have included a brief description of the used software: CDS/ISIS is a system of document management developed by UNESCO. It permits storage and a recovery of great volumes of information, as well as offering a combination of different types of searches. Hence, we have used the program WinISIS, which is a version for Windows of CDS/ISIS keeping REDINED´s database. WinISIS allows searches in Inverted file and in free text searches based on a reading in accordance with the Master file, combining the terms of search with logical operators (Boolean expressions). These searches permit us to achieve the statistics contained by the percentage of success of the requests, which were formulated from the starting point.