Indicadores de excelencia docente en la Universidad de Granada

Abstract

Universities need to develop a system of indicators that allows evaluating the quality of its teaching staff, that helps informed decision-making on their hiring and promotion and that is a reference for planning teaching staff training activities in its different phases of professional progression. The University of Granada (Spain) is no stranger to this trend, and therefore is promoting studies, as the one presented here carried out by the Research Group FORCE, to establish a system of indicators of excellence appropriate to the characteristics of its faculty. The process developed in two phases. Initially a sample of teachers from different strata of the whole teaching population was studied in depth. The study was carried out based on an interview. The sample consisted of six teachers from six centers from each of the six key areas of teaching that we have established: health sciences, physical and natural sciences, social sciences and law, humanities, technical sciences and fine arts. For the analysis of qualitative data we used in depth content analysis that allowed the definition of indicators for the relevant dimensions of the entire narrative material collected. In a second step, we submitted the list of indicators to the entire population of the University faculty, a total of 3003 teachers. For the analysis of quantitative data, basic descriptive analysis was applied.