Indicadores para la evaluación del desempeño docente en Educación SuperiorPerspectiva del cuerpo académico de la Universidad Estadual de Montes Claros, Brasil

Résumé

This Doctoral Thesis research focuses on the search, selection and contrast of performance evaluation and teaching excellence indicators at UNIMONTES University in Brazil. The teaching performance in universities is guided by the vision that the faculties have of teaching excellence and the real opportunities of approaching this vision of excellence according to the resources and circumstances in which they teach. Knowing what the vision of excellence is and having performance evaluation indicators accepted by the university faculty is an essential element for the achievement of the quality of the service offered by Higher Education institutions, as well as contributing to the well-being of the academic body that constitutes them. This study reviews the functions of Higher Education, the history of universities in advanced societies and the different perspectives on teaching performance, professional development and faculty evaluation. All this constitutes the theoretical part of our study. In the second part, an empirical study was carried out by applying a questionnaire to assess teaching excellence indicators to the academic staff of UNIMONTES in order to find out which indicators best describe their own vision of excellence and can be used to evaluate teaching performance. The results reveal a model of excellence in which communicative ability plays an essential role in the teaching function and the practical development of teaching, the vision of excellence and the formative needs of students constitute a predictive model of that ability, while individual support for students seems to escape the general model of excellence maintained by the faculty surveyed.