Abstract
This study based on the sciences of education attempts to measure the results of the public policy of the training of teachers carried out in a higher education institution established in the Academy of Montpellier over a period of fifteen years, by combining assessment methods along four axes. - The observation axis of public action lists the constituent elements of the national policy, it follows the building up of the training policy, it assesses its suitability in comparison to the initial target, it rates resistance. - The observation axis of the operational management of this institution deals with the capacity of the management to liven up the university community around this project by integrating the complex functioning of the UFM. The internal relationships within the university community and those with partners have been the object of a steady attention- The observation axis dedicated to the users gives priority to inflows analysis (attractiveness of the trainings, the admission of students) and the outflows (the results in.the competitive exams). - The observation axis of the training has permitted to check the quality of the training organized by the institution assessed in comparison to several reference frames. The collection of the opinion of the state-employed trainees on the construction of their skills has been added. Finally, the hypothesis according to which there has been no global, local nor “scientific” evaluation leading to the decision to integrate the IUFM into a university has been confirmed.