Strategic planning and teaching quality in the University

Abstract

Aside from the sort of discipline or specialty, universities should promote in their students a high-level thinking and make them self-sufficient trainees.

Quality teaching is defined as that which can reach teaching goals, the ones that stand out because of their ambition and complexity as to make students reach a critical thinking, be creative and develop complex cognitive skills. However, according to available information, most students of this level, will not reach these goals. It is remarked the important role of the teacher to obtain them.

Educative evaluation and particularly, that of students learning, constitutes in this context, a very interesting topic due to its importance, complexity and the validity of different problems pending to be solved.

The searching of high education excellence, is a current demand that compromises all those individuals implied in educative tasks, and the aspects of and components in the formation process of the future professionals. In our country that search shows in the willing of constant perfectionism of university teaching based on scientific support, which back up the decisions and day by day chores of educative institutions and promotes, at the same time, pedagogical investigation development as a necessity of the perfection itself.

 Strategic planning in a higher education institution is a continuous process, technical-political, systematic, reflective, participatory, critical and self-critical, instructive, flexible, comprehensive and guidance, which promotes change, and precedes and presides the action for the decision making.