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Analysis of the teaching perception after the implementation of the skills-based curriculum in three chilean universities

Abstract:

This study shows the teaching perceptions that characterize professors of three Chilean universities that faced the implementation of a competency-based teaching approach. Free and spontaneous accounts on the teaching practice intelligibility were analyzed in a sample of 97 tenured professors from these universities. The analysis was carried out using qualitative methods of data collection and the content analysis technique to identify categories of words, guiding principles and criteria for identifying the perceptions of the professors. Although there are coincidences of perceptions in the guide and contribute categories, there are differences on how professors relate to the guiding principles. The latter concept depends on the depth and time that the each university has been implementing the competency-based approach. Professors focus on the participation and personalization of teaching, the motivation, the development of self-esteem and interaction. Also, although they internalize the context, in one of the universities globalization is not linked to its activities, focusing on the institutional guidelines and on those of the traditional teaching by objectives.