Contributions of graduate programs evaluation and accreditation processes to the development of teaching function in Argentina

In this paper, the contributions of university evaluation and accreditation processes of graduate programs in Argentina to the development of the teaching function are analysed. For this purpose, the reports issued by the peer evaluating committees of running graduate programs in political science a...

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Autor: Rinaldi, Sebastián M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.investiga.uned.ac.cr:article/3975
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/revistacalidad/article/view/3975
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:teaching function
evaluation
accreditation
graduate programs
university
función docente
evaluación
acreditación
carreras de posgrado
universidad
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Sumario:In this paper, the contributions of university evaluation and accreditation processes of graduate programs in Argentina to the development of the teaching function are analysed. For this purpose, the reports issued by the peer evaluating committees of running graduate programs in political science and international relations fields, accredited during 2019-21 period, are examined to determine if they show observations that will allow to consolidate and improve the current teaching practices. To conclude, it is noted that the processes coordinated by the accreditation board are aimed at collecting the relevance of the professional background of the academic body with the assigned tasks and the students’ achievements, resulting in the continuous training of teachers and teaching strategies secondary issues.