Higher education evaluation and accreditation, and editorial production in Ecuador

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Published: 2014-12-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n21.2014.15
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Higher education evaluation, research indicators, university editorials, peer-reviewed books.

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Luis Álvarez Rodas
José Juncosa Blasco

Abstract

This article exposes the features of editorial production in public and private universities in Ecuador, in the context of evaluation and quality assurance in higher education, using two different types of material and data: a. A review of the data on book production, titles and areas of knowledge; b. UPS’ accreditation experience with indicators on scientific research, regional research and refereed books. By doing this, we have checked that editorial production has increased and that social sciences prevail in editorial production are in social sciences. Finally, we foresee that the overvaluation of indexed articles and topological restrictions of peer-reviewed books will discourage the development of university editorials. The hypothesis is as follows: the evaluation and accreditation model will be able to stimulate the editorial production and improve research indicators to the extent that it assigns greater valuation to peer-reviewed books and expands its typology.

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No. 21 (2014): (july-december 2014)
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Research
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Author Biographies

Luis Álvarez Rodas

Dr. en Estética, valores y cultura por la Universidad de Murcia. Docente y editor general de la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.

José Juncosa Blasco

Director y docente de la Carrera de Antropología Aplicada de la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. Director editorial de Abya Yala.

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