Teaching activity assessment support programme (DOCENTIA)

The Teaching activity assessment support programme designed by ANECA seeks to meet the demand of universities and the needs of the educational system for a model and procedures to ensure the quality of the university teaching staff and to favour its development and acknowledgement.

The aim of the programme is to support universities in the design and application of in-house teaching assessment procedures in order to ensure the quality of their teaching staff and to favour its development and acknowledgement through its external assessment by an agency.

The programme takes into the commitment of ANECA to take part in and support the different frameworks of technical collaboration with the universities, regional agencies and education authorities of the autonomous regions. Along these lines, ACECAU and ANECA have signed an agreement for collaboration to undertake this programme in the area of the Canarian University Teaching, maintaining coherence at all times by using a common model.

Procedures:

First phase:

Popularization and formation of DOCENTIA: Directors of agencies, technical experts of agencies, vice rectors, university experts.

Elaboration of the assessment model of teaching by units of the universities which take part.

Evidences:

Call 2007

Assessment model

Guidelines

Second phase:

Verification of the assessment models for teaching activity by the autonomic agencies.

Evidences:

Verification guidelines (In this document the different phases of the process of verification, the structure and functions of the committees of assessment are included, as well as the different dimensions and criteria which will be a referent for the models of assessment of the teaching activity carried out by the universities).

Protocol for th verification of the model (this document facilitates the task of verification of assessors. Here, the aspects to take into account at the moment of the verification can be seen).download.

Protocol for carrying out the verification report (It is a document that  guides the assessors in their task of elaborating the verification report of models).Download.