The External Evaluation: A Mechanism to Ensure the Quality of Higher Education in Costa Rica

 

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Nhiều tác giả: Torres-Salas, María Isabel, García-Rojas, Andrea, Alvarado-Arguedas, Andrea
Định dạng: artículo
Trạng thái:Versión publicada
Ngày xuất bản:2018
Miêu tả:This study aims to show that the accreditation involves a dynamic and complex process. The accreditation allows the improvement of higher education because it ensures and promotes quality in all the aspects that compose this educational level. This bibliographic review article considered a range of criteria concerning the standards accrediting bodies use to have self-assessments made. These criteria are associated with different experiences carried out both in Costa Rica and in other Latin American countries. In addition, this article proposes a reflection on the different mechanisms used to evaluate the quality in higher education institutions, as well as an analysis on the role of accreditation in these public universities versus the quality systems and the ways to promote the development of an institutional culture that leads to quality processes in Costa Rica. Among the main findings, the study showed that these processes put in evidence the strengths and weaknesses of the careers or institutions that undergo the accreditation, which allows the implementation of improvement plans leading to a continuously improving process that is subject to external verification following established criteria and standards.
Quốc gia:Portal de Revistas UNA
Tổ chức giáo dục:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Ngôn ngữ:Español
Inglés
Portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/8693
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/8693
Từ khóa:Higher education
accreditation
educational quality
educational evaluation.
Educación superior
acreditación
calidad educativa
evaluación educativa.
Ensino superior
acreditação
qualidade educacional
avaliação educacional.