2016, Number 2
Is curriculum redesigning without previous curricular assessment scientific?
Salas PRS
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ABSTRACT
An analysis of the theoretical and methodological foundations of curricular assessment was presented, as a process that permitted to scientifically support curriculum development and redesign in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and as a subject for scientific-pedagogical debate by academic faculties at the University of Medical Sciences of Havana. Curriculum assessment is a social activity and cannot be simplified to a technical and behavioral approach, because its determinant base is a socioeconomic one. The evaluation model used was participatory and incorporated all the elements involved in the academic curriculum. Curriculum assessment is divided into four stages: internal assessment, external assessment, impact assessment and overall result. We went into details about each of them. Curriculum assessment must be considered as a process of collaborative action-research, perceived as something natural and proper and necessary for the teaching profession, and as a scientific basis for curricular redesigning or the improvement of any syllabus.REFERENCES
Briceño M, Chapín M. Elementos teóricos para sustentar la evaluación curricular como proceso de transformación y construcción social de las universidades venezolanas. Investigación y Postgrado. Caracas: Universidad Pedagógica Experimental. 2008 [Citado 20 de abril 2015];23(3). Disponible en: http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1316-00872008000300004&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es [ISNN 1316-0087].