The evaluation of educational quality in public higher education institutions in Mexico: a case study with a quality assurance and accountability approach
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Published: 2024
Place of publication: Brasil
Language: por
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Copyright date: 2024
Description: This document reports the results of the investigation The Evaluation of
Educational Quality in Public Higher Education Institutions in Mexico: A Case Study with
a Quality Assurance and Accountability Approach. The problems and the challenges in
the Universidad Michoacana, as Mexico´s public institutions of education superior, are
many in the matter of educative quality. Consequently, the study´s objective consists of
determining the main factors that define the educative quality in the Faculty of Law and
Social Sciences (FDyCS, by its acronym in Spanish) of the Universidad Michoacana de San
Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH).The basic foundations of the investigation lead to us towards
a study of nonexperimental type; descriptive and corelational; systematic and empirical;
cross-sectional; and with a mixed methodologic approach, because in him the methods
agree qualitative and quantitative. In addition, the design of the investigation considered
a participating, representative and reflective process of all the members of the examined
academic center, using the techniques of documentary revision, questionnaire and interview.
The investigation´s strategy was developed in three phases: an exploration of
the present situation and consensus of the decisions related to the participation of the
members of the FDyCS of the UMSNH in the investigation process; the second phase
corresponded to the evaluation of the members of the FDyCS, in order to analyze the reality
of the academic center on the part of the involved ones in the educative process; and the
third stage consisted of the design of a plan of continuous improvement of the educative
quality for the FDyCS. The methodology of the investigation evaluated the development of
the education superior in the studied academic center, considering the participation of its