Resumen

FIGUEROA TOALA, Ricardo. The quality of institutional assessment and self-appraisal: approaches and models. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.3, pp. 531-549. ISSN 1727-8120.

One of the biggest challenges that University education faces nowadays, is to manage the corresponding changes that our contemporary society demands. A way to sensitize the academic world and to make innovation easier is through assessment and self-appraisal.  This research work carried out a tendentious analysis of the different approaches and models of the institutional assessment and self-appraisal processes; as well as, of the current tendencies of the institutional self-appraisal process in higher education, by analyzing the concept of quality.

Palabras clave : educational measurement; education higher; quality improvement.

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