The strategic planning of the institutional evaluation and accreditation processes of the undergraduate courses of the UNLP as a permanent improvement policy

Abstract

Institutional evaluation and the accreditation of undergraduate courses are fundamental instances to reflect on the internal processes of university life, taking into account its complexity and situation, but with an eye on the continuous improvement of institutional practices. The present work orders the central characteristics from an integrated view of both processes and from there the development of an innovation project for the strategic planning of the processes of institutional evaluation and accreditation of undergraduate courses is proposed, as a permanent policy of improvement in the framework of the Strategic Plan of the National University of La Plata. They are approached schematically: the proposal of a methodological design for the production of permanent information of the different dimensions for the processes of institutional evaluation and accreditation of undergraduate courses, the strategies that allow the development of guidelines and substantive policy designs for institutional self-evaluation. for improvement, and training materials for continuous institutional self-evaluation and degree course accreditation processes.