Perceptions of university professors of education in relation to reaching accreditation

Abstract

Following the implementation of the EHEA, the search for quality is the order of the day in Higher Education. In the Spanish context, ANECA plays an important role, as it provides a regulated teaching accreditation system. This research aims to know, compare and understand the perceptions of the university teaching staff about their teaching accreditation, using a mixed methodology, through a sequential explanatory design that has two phases, a quantitative and a qualitative one, in which a questionnaire and an interview are used as instruments of information collection respectively. In both phases, the main result is that teaching activity is the most relevant category of merit on the part of the teaching staff, without leaving the rest of the categories behind, being essential, in terms of merit, quality as opposed to quantity. Therefore, this research provides information that will help to ensure the quality of education from the point of view of the protagonists, the teaching staff.