“Center for thinking, designing and managing evaluation processes, as well as to certify competences”. It is mainly focused on giving solid foundations, researching, evaluating and certifying competences of students, professionals and professors. It also accredits programs and Higher Education institutions in terms of their processes of education and development of competences.
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Quality Assessment of Higher Education in Latin American University: A Case Study
Rafael Ignacio Pérez-Uribe (EAN University, Colombia), Gloria Sierra (EAN University, Colombia), and Sandra Bibiana Clavijo-Olmos (EAN University, Colombia)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9829-9.ch016
Abstract
The purpose of the chapter is to present the experience of the evaluation based on competences, through an institutional evaluation program that verifies the quality of the training as a process of quality assurance and as part of the Quality Management System in a Latin American university. It will describe the academic process called Assessment Center that designs, manages, and implements the program of undergraduate and postgraduate evaluation in face-to-face and virtual modality, and that has an objective to develop the project of Evaluation in Higher Education by Competences based on the Pedagogical Model of the College. Finally, this chapter aims to demonstrate from an experience in higher education the importance of quality as an integral part of the institutional culture of a Latin American university, as well as the collective and individual intentionality of the educational communities, in such a way that it is reflected in the processes and tasks that are carried out in the university institutions.