La evaluación de carreras universitarias en el Ecuador ¿desde qué concepción de educación?

Abstract

This article resumes the most important results of a documentary and bibliographic study concerning the evaluation model for university careers, which is actually applied and directed by the Ecuadorian Council for Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (CEAACES). The study, carried out between December 2013 and July 2014, aimed at clarifying the educational concept that underlies the evaluation model. Therefore we analyzed the discourse published in some of the organization´s documents, considering terms like “excellence”, “pertinence”, “learning outcomes” and “knowledge transfer”. Among others we conclude that the CEAACES evaluation model supposes an educational concept based on instrumental rationality and a university focused on the building of human capital.