External institutional evaluation visit in the combined modality. Vision of the protagonists

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the vision of the protagonists (Institutions and Peer Evaluators) who have gone through the institutional evaluation process in the year 2021, about the external evaluation visit in the combined modality, implemented by ANEAES within the framework of the health conjuncture by COVID 19. The External Evaluation visit in the Combined Modality is defined as that visit in which virtual and face-to-face activities are used to assess the different dimensions of institutional management, its undergraduate careers and postgraduate programs. The research is framed within the quantitative approach, non-experimental design and descriptive level, for the collection of information a 16-item Likert scale questionnaire was used. The population consisted of a total of 130 Peer Evaluators and representatives of the 30 institutions evaluated, with a census sample. The results show the high level of agreement of both protagonists regarding, that the modality implemented in the context of the pandemic, allows a transparent, objective process, guarantees the confidentiality of the proceedings, the times allocated for the interviews as well as for the visit in situ and that this did not prove to be an impediment to adequate communication between the members of the Peer Committee, positively valuing the contribution of the Agency's technicians during the process.