El Programa de Evaluacion Docente en la UADY. Experiencia de la Implementacion
La evaluacion del desempeno docente tiene la finalidad de valorar la calidad de las responsabilidades en la ensenanza, aprendizaje y desarrollo del estudiante, sin embargo, es una tarea dificil de realizar (SEP, 2010) Debido a la necesidad de contar con un proceso de evaluacion que contribuya con la mejora de la ensenanza, se creo el Programa de Evaluacion Docente en la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY) Este propone promover la reflexion y el mejoramiento de la practica docente, fortalecer los sistemas de formacion y capacitacion, asi como estimular el interes de los profesores por el desarrollo profesional.El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la experiencia de su implementacion y los resultados obtenidos en el primer ejercicio. Se realizo un estudio descriptivo con un enfoque mixto, predominantemente cuantitativo (Hesse Biber, 2010) Participaron estudiantes y profesores del primer y segundo semestre de siete programas educativos. Los profesores obtuvieron resultados positivos en la evaluacion de su desempeno, se reporto un avance entre los resultados del primer y segundo semestre y se observo correspondencia entre las respuestas otorgadas por estudiantes y profesores al evaluar el desempeno. De la misma forma, se identificaron las fortalezas y areas de mejora del desempeno de los profesores.Palabras clave: Evaluacion docente, Educacion superior, Estrategias de evaluacion.Teaching assessment is intended the purpose to make judgements regarding the quality of teachers' responsibilities accomplishment related to teaching, learning and students development, yet evaluating it seems to be a difficult task considering that teaching is very a complex and wide work (SEP, 2010) Because of the need of assessing teaching to better teachers' performance, the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) developed "The Teaching Assessment Program" which promotes a reflexive practice of teacher's own performance. Through this program the UADY intend to strengthen the ongoing training system and encourage teachers into professional development.The aim of this paper is to present the experience of their implementation and the results obtained in the first year. The current article presents a descriptive study with a mixed approach of investigation, quantitative predominantly (Hesse Biber, 2010) This study presents the opinion of teachers and students of first and second semesters of seven different educational programs regarding their structure and the implementation as well as the teachers' performance. Although it was found that teachers usually obtain good assessment's results, their performance was better assessed in second semester than it was in the first one; both teachers and students coincided with teachers' performance assessment results. It also was found some strong areas and areas for improvement of the seven educational programs that in teachers and students' opinion must be considered to improve teachers' performance.Keywords: Assessment of teachers, Higher education, Evaluation strategies.