University coaching: Proposal of a measuring indicator system

Abstract

This article presents a teaching innovation project, funded by the University of Granada. The main objective is the efficiency measuring of a coaching process. In this way it has been designed a system of indicators that aims to be a measurement tool in two fundamental aspects: first, the acquisition of personal skills and the empowerment of self-knowledge; and second, the academic performance and the improvement of their personal potential. The structure is articulated in the following sections: first, an approximation and delimitation of the coaching concept; secondly, it analyses the application of coaching in the university; third, it explains the stages of the research design carried out; fourth, it presents the results related with the validity and reliability of the integrated indicator system; finally, the main conclusions are focus on the design of a tool that measures the effectiveness of coaching in socio-affective, socio-cognitive, executive, social, and identitive aspects with the institution and the communicative ones..