Assessing the relevance of higher education courses
Tipo de documento
Autores
Gil, Francisco | Gómez, Pedro | González, María José | Lupiáñez, José Luis | Moreno, María Francisca | Rico, Luis | Romero, Isabel
Lista de autores
Gómez, Pedro, González, María José, Gil, Francisco, Lupiáñez, José Luis, Moreno, María Francisca, Rico, Luis y Romero, Isabel
Resumen
The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program’s competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the relevance of a course. Using information from the course syllabus (objectives, contents and assessment scheme), our instrument produces indicators for characterizing the syllabus in terms of a competence list and for assessing its coherence. Because assessment involves quality, the results obtained can also be used to revise and improve the course syllabus. We illustrate this process with an example of a methods course from a mathematics teacher education program at a Spanish university.
Fecha
2007
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Estado publicación
Términos clave
Evaluación (currículo) | Gestión y calidad | Política educativa
Enfoque
Nivel educativo
Educación técnica, educación vocacional, formación profesional | Formación en posgrado
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Revisado por pares
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