Educational Suffix: Promoting the added value of education

The term 'educational suffix' is an innovative concept denoting 'the added value of education'. It describes how paradigms are perceived by different stakeholders whilst providing avenues for resolving difficulties identified through pedagogical, sociocultural and epistemological constructs, drawing on the types of knowledge, beliefs and norms employed by educational communities to enhance student performance. In this context, the 'educational suffix' model offers a framework for examining the processes and procedures vital to the effective adaptation of educational intervention. Thus, the 'educational suffix' is a neologism that contextualises the pedagogical and intellectual contribution to the individual capital that a student brings to a given educational institution. It provides a comprehensive and dichotomised explanation of how education functions through the simple forms of desinence (structures, processes and endogenous resources of the educational institution) and its compound forms (families, environment, exogenous influences) in order to identify their actual influence on educational performance.