Institutional
Docentia
In the year 2007, UNIBASQ signed an agreement of collaboration with ANECA for the development of the Program of Support for the Evaluation of Teaching Activity (DOCENTIA) in the Basque University System.
The purpose in launching the DOCENTIA programme is to meet the requests of the universities, and the need of the Basque educational system, to have available a model and procedures for improving the quality of the university teaching staff. The program has been designed in such a way that, within the autonomy of the universities, it orientates their activities while at the same time strengthening the increasingly relevant role that universities should play in the evaluation of teaching activity and in the development of training programs for their teaching staff.
Taking the ESG for Quality Assurance as a reference, DOCENTIA aims to ensure compliance with standard 1.5. “Teaching Staff”, which sets out that institutions should avail themselves of the means to ensure that their staff are qualified and competent to teach.
The programme is developed through several stages:
Design of the Assessment Handbooks
The universities write down the handbooks for the teaching activity assessment.
External Assessment of the Designs
In this stage Unibasq assesses the fullfilment of the specificities and criteria of the DOCENTIA programme.
Implementation and Follow-Up
Once the designs are possitively assessed, the universities start with the pilot implementation of their evaluation procedures.
Certification
After the experimental implementation of the teaching activity assessment designs and once the follow-up stage is possitively passed, the universities can ask for the certification of their assessment procedures.
Documentation of the Evaluation Scheme
Explanatory Internal Guide for the DOCENTIA Programme in the Basque University System. (Spanish)
Unibasq has written this document based on the integration and updating of the previous documentation of the programme, following the new criteria and guidelines for quality assurance of 2015, in order to evaluate the design, monitor the implementation and certify the evaluation procedures.
Support Programme for the evaluation of the teaching activity of University Teachers. (Spanish)
Agencies involved in the DOCENTIA programme endorsed this document in 2015 to integrate and update all the information associated to the DOCENTIA programme from its establishment.
Evaluation Bodies
Docentia evaluation scheme Follow-up Commission
This Commission reviews periodically the established evaluation scheme and the framework procedure in order to improve them. It takes into account the new requirements and needs related to the teaching activity evaluation and makes the necessary changes to assure the quality of the evaluation. The Commission is made up of a president and secretary named by ANECA and a member of each of the agencies involved in the DOCENTIA evaluation scheme.
Designs evaluation commission
Commission made up of 5 to 6 members, whose función is to evaluate and, if so, approved the procedures designed by universities in order to develop the evaluation of teaching activities.
Designs evaluation commission 2007 (Spanish).- Comisión de evaluación de los diseños 2013 (Spanish).
Designs implementation evaluation commission
Commission made up of 5 members, some of them should be external experts or experts who have taken part in the evaluation of the designs. This Commission is in charge of the review of the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation designs by the universities. It makes improvement proposals for the implementation of the evaluation designs and, when necessary, the recommendation to start the certification process. The composition of this commission consists of:
- President: Eduardo García Jiménez.
- Secretary: Eugenia Llamas.
- Member: Ricardo Arlegi Pérez.
- Student member: Katharina Rosteius.
- Technical Secretary: Idoia Collado Arrúe.
Resolution of 24th June of 2019 (Spanish)
Resolution of 11th April of 2018 (Spanish)
Resolution of 21st February of 2017 (Spanish).
Former commissions:
- Designs implementation evaluation commission 2011 (Spanish)
- Designs implementation evaluation commission 2012 (Spanish).
- Designs implementation evaluation commission 2013 (Spanish).
- Designs implementation evaluation commission 2014 (Spanish).
- Designs implementation evaluation commission 2015 (Spanish)
Results
UPV / EHU
- Evaluation design elaborated by the university (Spanish).
- Report on the evaluation of the design (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2011 (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2012 (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2013 (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2014 (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2015 (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2016 (Spanish).
- Evaluation report on the certification of the teaching activity standard evaluation 2019 (Spanish).
Universidad de Deusto
- Report on the evaluation of the design (Spanish).
- External evaluation report on the implementation of the teaching activity evaluation design 2017. (Spanish)
Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Observatory of the Basque University System
