La acreditación, uno de los caminos que lleva a la calidad en la educación superiorEl caso de la carrera de cinesiología de la Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

Abstract

The National Accreditation Commission (CNA in Spanish) ruled a series of improvements for the program of kinesiology of the Universidad de Antofagasta (UA), within the policies framework that assures Chilean university education quality, in order to correct several aspects of the program. In this sense, the program was organized according to the guidelines of the Analysis and Management Institutional Office (DGAI in Spanish) to provide answers, and a self-evaluation and a redesign committee were constituted to make a work plan that includes students and academics, employers and graduated students, as well as experts in curriculum dependent on the Vicerectorate of Academic Affairs assigned to the Innovation and Curricular Development Center (CIDEC-UA in Spanish). Results are the renovation of the graduate profile, contents of the curriculum, redesign of the study plan, and a program related to the connection with the community, in addition to the inclusion of the thesis, in order to facilitate investigation in the area at that specific level. The purpose of this article is to describe the experience of internal (self-evaluation) and external (accreditation of the program of Kinesiology in the UA) evaluation processes. The assessment of the effects when these changes are generated will be analyzed 2 years after the beginning of the implementation of it.