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Quality assurance has received much attention in recent years, mainly due to
internal and external pressures related to the progressive massification of higher
education and the need to align quantitative growth of frequencies with
international quality standards. The adoption of self-evaluation practices resulted
from an external imposition on Higher Education Institutions aiming to institute
internal self-regulation dynamics and to legitimize external control procedures
leading to the accreditation of courses and institutions. This paper aims to present
and discuss self-assessment actions and their effects at a professional and social
level within a basic unit of Universidade Católica de Moçambique (Catholic
University of Mozambique). In methodological terms, the case study perspective is
adopted and the non-participant observation and the content analysis of
documents produced within this process are used. We conclude that selfassessment, although marked by ambiguous and weakly articulated dimensions,
led to changes and improvements during and after the practice of self-evaluation.
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(Self)evaluation Quality Higher education Improvements
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Angst, F. A., Matias Alves, J. (2017). Ações de (auto)avaliação e seus efeitos para melhoria da qualidade no ensino superior – um estudo de caso. In J. Machado, C. Palmeirão, I. Cabral, I. Baptista, J. Azevedo, J. M. Alves, M. C. Roldão (orgs.), Educação, Territórios e Desenvolvimento Humano : Atas do II Seminário Internacional, Porto, Portugal, 20-21 de Julho de 2017. (pp. 154-173). Porto: Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia - Centro de Estudos em Desenvolvimento Humano
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia - Centro de Estudos em Desenvolvimento Humano