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The UNIVECS Evaluation System in Mexican Universities: Discussion About Social Cohesion with Teachers and Students

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The main objective of the UNIVECS (Study conducted as part of the Project: UNIVECS “Validating an evaluation system of university degrees based on a Social Cohesion model” (Ref. EDU2016-78065R), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and supported by EU FEDER funds.) project is to know the extent to which the institution moves towards social cohesion as a benchmark to evaluate university careers, and to observe which contributions are made in relation to the study object. The objective of the study that we present, conducted in Mexican universities, is to provide evidence for validating the Evaluation Model and its adaptation in Mexico (“Cultural Validation of the evaluation instrument for Social Cohesion UNIVECS in Mexican universities” (Ref. INV18-01-19-06), financed by the Subprograma Atraccio de Talent 2018 of the Vice-Rectorate of Research of the Universitat de Valencia; in collaboration with UNAM, and thanks to support from the Ibero-American Network of Researchers about Evaluating Teaching (RIIED).). To do so, discussion was used with university teachers and students about the social cohesion concept in relation to a series of evaluation dimensions to know how they perceive it in their institution. The methodology was followed by 11 discussion groups at three Mexican universities. The webQDA qualitative analysis programme was run to perform the content analysis. The results obtained from four discussion groups, formed by teachers and students from one institution, are presented. The study concluded that the evaluation proposal is capable of identifying different obstacles and facilitators between study populations (teachers, students). Information was provided that the participants stressed the most to indicate more frequent or priority aspects. This study allowed us to offer an analysis tool and useful evaluation system for self-assessments and institutional diagnostics about the social cohesion concept in university careers by following a transforming research process with and for the involved stakeholders.