Abstract

REINOSO-AVECILLAS, Rodrigo Lucio  and  CHICAIZA-AUCAPINA, Darwin Italo. Quality referents in Ecuadorian higher technological education. Sophia [online]. 2022, n.33, pp.279-309. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n33.2022.10.

The quality in technological higher education is better characterized by the training of students’ capacities than by the levels reached in accountability or institutional management. By virtue of the specialized literature, there have been two major approaches that have characterized the issue of quality in Higher Education in the last decades. From an administrative perspective, the commitment has been to quality management, and from social studies, the focus was on promoting the institutional culture. In this framework, the study seeks to characterize the quality references underlying the evaluation models of the Higher Technological Institutes in Ecuador from 2010 to 2020, to make visible the need to rethink public policies from the State and strengthen the agency of institutes. To achieve this objective, the theoretical instruments of policy analysis were used through a review of documentary information that allowed reinterpreting the concept of quality. Finally, as a conclusion, the study determined that the prevailing concept of quality in the evaluation models of the IST was adjusted to the acquisition of high levels of excellence and did not include the discussion of the nature of the technical and technological training relative to the transformation of students’ abilities.

Keywords : Quality; education; institutes; technology; models; evaluation; policy.

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