Assessment model: Guidelines
The assessment model was based in seven guidelines that defined the most important aspects of the Tutorial Action Plan.
The following diagram summarises the structure of these guidelines:
Phases
The Quality Unit for carrying out the assessment it developed a guide for guiding the work of the members of the Assessment Committee.
The Assessment Committee of the Tutorials Plan for the transition of a degree was a technical body of experts appointed by the Board of the Centre and/or CAT. They have to prepare a report, which after a detailed and reflexive evaluation, identified the strengths and weaknesses of the tutorial process and gathered an explicit proposal of improvement actions.
The composition of each Assessment Committee was flexible, ensuring at all times the participation of the authors of the Plan: professors-tutors and students. We recommend that the committee didn’t exceed the seven members and that the coordination was in charge of the coordination of the Tutorials Plan or other member of the management team, as a sign of the institutional support given to this initiative.
The Assessment Committee of each degree described and evaluated the situation of its teachings and selected and proposed an improvement plan to be developed in the following years. This report became a technical review for the members of the Quality Unit, who made new contributions and recommendations. The result of this process was the initial report (or self-assessment report) which, once completed was sent to the Office of the Vice-Principal for Studies.
Consequently, the report did not constitute an endpoint, but a starting point towards a quality system. Its main goal was the educational improvement of our institution, the optimization of what already existed, the improvement of internal assessment processes, the consolidation of a culture of quality and the coherence between the academic offer and the results expected.