Trayectos recorridos en el proceso de autoevaluación con fines de acreditación institucional de la Universidad del Magdalena

Abstract This paper presents the distances covered by the University of Magdalena during the process of self-evaluation, which was intended under the rationality and own rigor of an exercise in scientific research , in this case in the area of the line on " Management and Systems Development Education " , Ph.D. in Science Education from the same institution. The key issues that are addressed are: Ph.D. in Science Education as an academic niche Assessment Process; self-evaluation as the process of scientific research; the institutional policy framework that guided the self-assessment process; mobilizing and supporting social participation and legitimizes self-evaluation process; joint self-assessment process with the formulation of the Institutional Development Plan: the exercise of Resignification the Institutional Educational Project and the Process Assessment Model Institutional Pedagogical; theoretical referential coordinates the self-assessment process and methodological route that guided the Assessment Process Uses of Institutional Accreditation, among others.