Current challenges of quality assessment in higher education For Mexico and Latin America

Abstract

This research report was carried out based on a documentary review on the production and publication of research papers related to the challenges faced in the evaluation of the quality of Latin American higher education, highlighting the case of the evaluation of educational quality in Mexican institutions, during the period between 2014 and 2019. Therefore, the purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper lies in identifying the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the aforementioned period, by Latin American institutions, achieving the identification of 168 publications in total. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of tables and figures, categorizing the information on the basis of the year of publication, country of origin, area of knowledge and type of publication. Once these characteristics were defined, the position of the different authors and specialists with respect to the proposed topic was referenced by means of a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings identified through the ongoing research, it was found that Brazil, with 64 publications, was the country with the highest production. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the challenges faced in evaluating quality in higher education in the case under analysis was the social sciences, with 78 published documents; and the most used type of publication during the period under review was the journal article, which accounted for 80% of the total scientific production.