Autoevaluation and management for improvement: an experience in the professional formation of Physical Education

Abstract

To reach a university Physical Education major of excellence presupposes innovation in the organizational management; not always the recognition of the well-known deficiencies in the process of professional formation are established as a way to grow and innovate. The systematic accreditation constitutes the goal to reach in the academic units; however it is much more complex to get that objective if we do not apply autoevaluation mechanisms periodically. This research looks for the acceleration of the process of formative problems solution through control and systematic following of improvement actions to be implemented from the weaknesses and strengths of the major, which were identified through the application of interviews, surveys, technique of base line evidence and documents analysis, that had as personal sources the students information, graduates, professors, employees and employers, which were the sample of the investigation. The obtained results allowed us to characterize the professional formation process in the Physical Education, Sports and Recreation Major at Eloy Alfaro University of Manabí, Ecuador; but at the same time they permitted to design improvement actions, expressed in projective goal forms. The close relation between the characterization and the improvement actions implemented and the systematic control for the reach of proposed goals, permitted that in only eight months of application, after autoevaluation, we could get the 87% fulfillment of the projected actions. This result evidences the positive effect of the management model applied in that academic unit.