Methodology to self evaluation of social impact of masterships

Abstract

Evaluation of the social impact of master’s degree courses is a necessary process in order to know the achievements and difficulties of the program design and development, the management of the Academic Committee and the labor of professors and tutors. It also allows knowing the results of master’s degree courses concerning the professional development of
participants and the local growth of the program. This paper is aimed at proposing a methodology to self -evaluate the social impact of master’s degree courses according to the requirements set by the National Accreditation Board. The methodology includes four components: objective, methods and procedures as well as implementation and evaluation forms which based on their internal dynamics, becomes a methodological and practical tool to carry out self-evaluation.

The application of this methodology in the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of this master’s degree course of “Technologies in Educational Processes” allowed to corroborate the feasibility and validity of the instruments and ways of implementation and
evaluation by using scientist methods in order to achieve the objective presented.