The Docentia program is not an exam to which the teacher is submitted periodically, nor is it a competition, nor is it a tool designed to control teaching performance. It is an opportunity for the professor to reflect on his or her performance. The teaching evaluation provides essential information for several university processes:

• Selection and promotion of teaching staff. A favorable evaluation in the Docentia Program is considered an additional merit to be taken into account for internal promotion to the category of Professor and Senior Lecturer.
• Recognition of teaching excellence: The evaluation process proposed by the Docentia Program serves to accredit the performance of the teaching activity of UFV faculty according to national and international standards, thus providing professors with a certified system that allows them to accredit the quality of their teaching before the organizations and institutions that require it: ANECA, Madri+d, etc.
• Drive teaching innovation. Public recognition of good practices in teaching innovation implemented by professors who have introduced new strategies in their subjects and/or areas of relationship with students. A
  • Certification of the Docentia Program for guideline 3.2 of the renewal of degree accreditation (SGIC).
• Economic recognition: Those who obtain a VERY GOOD and EXCELLENT rating will be entitled to an annual economic complement

The requirements to be eligible to apply for the Docentia Program are:

• To be a contracted professor with at least3 years of teaching at the UFV in the academic years to be evaluated in the current call.
• To have taught a teaching equivalent to at least 6 ECTS in each of the courses evaluated.
• Not to have the Docentia Program certificate in force.
• To have teaching evaluations in the three academic years to be evaluated

Peer evaluators

These are teachers who access the information provided by the teacher in the different sub-dimensions. They check the merits provided by the teacher and contrast them with the evidence (virtual classroom of the subject mainly).

They accept or reject the professor’s explanations, suggesting, if necessary, a change of score in the subdimensions checked.

Subcommittees for the evaluation of the teaching work:

There is a subcommittee for each Faculty or School. Its functions are:

To check the final evaluation of the merits.

To propose to the Evaluation Committee, if necessary, the modification of scores resulting from the above functions.

To make proposals for the improvement of the program.

Teaching Evaluation Committee

Its functions are:

To confirm the final assessment of merits proposed by the evaluation subcommittees.

To receive and evaluate the proposals for modification of scores from the evaluation subcommittees.

To provide the necessary information so that the faculties or degree directors can propose the necessary action strategies for the continuous improvement of the teaching staff.