Competency Assessment: the Great Challenge for University Teachers

Abstract

Global trends that will impact on the educational models as the rapid advancement of knowledge and technology, demand greater versatility in the profiles of training of the field, in the same way the international competitiveness makes it necessary to strengthen the training of human resources during his career school, thereby achieved graduation profiles consistent with the demands of the workplace; so it becomes necessary to that teaching is involved in this process of transition, adopting the design trends of plans and curricula under the approach of competences proposed by UNESCO (United Nations education, science and culture organization), the Tuning project of the European Community (2001) that arises on the initiative of universities in collaborative to converge in the quality of education and more work afternoon, the Tuning for Latin America (2004) project whose concern is the competitiveness and international comparability of the resources that make up the IES (institutions of higher education).In Mexico, the public and private IES have taken actions; they are already working under this paradigm. The formation under the approach of competencies is a complex phenomenon in which converge policies of various kinds. There is a historical juncture in which matching postures and even the critics contribute to integrating a vision of education that may result in significant changes in systems and school practices. In this article meet some emanating reflections on the experience of renowned authors in education to the process of learning evaluation and operation of programs oriented training by competences, contrasted with the traditional instructional evaluation. The degree of involvement and the response of the community academic at this proposal, has not been easy, nor has been adopted with the speed and rhythm as they raise educational policies, the general argument perhaps respond to the actual work that the teacher must attend to really assess the competencies of the student, many universities continue teaching contents of the 19th century, by teachers of the twentieth century, students who will work in the 21st century, requires an attitude of teaching transformation to understand that the need to adapt training models that respond to the demands of the workforce, is delayed for this reason briefly review the most relevant aspects that the teacher's challenge meet urgently in relation to generalities, scales, criteria, moments and procedures of the process of evaluation of competence.