Comparative analysis of evaluation models of universities in Latin America

Abstract

There are processes that have been developed in Latin America to improve the quality of higher education. There have been qualitative and quantitative models, which at the beginning have served as a basis for processing the information generated by higher education institutions, factors that have helped to improve the generation of continuous improvement processes, control, and evaluation of the level of university quality, a means for accountability, among others. In the present study, it was observed that the dimensions used by the different higher education systems are the same to be evaluated, that is, they are based on the substantive elements of higher education: teaching, research, social interaction, institutional management. In addition, they use self-assessment as a diagnostic tool, peer assessment for the development of external assessment, and computer systems for information gathering and processing.