Academic evaluation in Diego Portales University

Authors

  • María José Ramírez Universidad Diego Portales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n28.205

Keywords:

academic evaluation, hierarchy, performance evaluation, rating, Chile

Abstract

The Diego Portales University established academic hierarchy and performance evaluation as mechanisms to assure the quality of its pool of teachers and to guarantee their pluralism and independence. External commissions assigned academic ranges using the expected features of full professor, associate professor, assistant teacher and instructor as criteria. In order to assign ranges, it was necessary to use qualitative and quantitative background in curricula. Internal commissions assessed teachers' annual performance and rated it as good, sufficient and insufficient, using as main evidence their annual labor planning accomplishment. This article documents principles, procedures, instruments and main outcomes from an academic evaluation launched in 2007 as well as learned lessons and measures taken.

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Published

2008-04-20

Issue

No. 28 (2008): Revista Calidad en la Educación: La Profesión Académica

Section

MONOGRÁFICO

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