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      El homo academicus y la máquina de sumar: profesores universitarios y la evaluación cuantitativa del mérito académico

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          Este artículo analiza el proceso de cuantificación en la evaluación del mérito académico, tal como se presenta en el caso de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), una institución pionera a nivel mundial en la aplicación de métodos cuantitativos de evaluación de profesores-investigadores. Se realizó un análisis del funcionamiento del tabulador para ingreso y promoción de la UAM, se condujeron 15 entrevistas a profundidad y se llevó a cabo una encuesta de respuesta voluntaria entre académicos vía Internet. El artículo detalla las transformaciones en los instrumentos de evaluación y los cambios de comportamiento que éstos han inducido entre los profesores. Se describe también cómo las evaluaciones cuantitativas le permiten a la institución legitimar sus procesos de evaluación y cómo facilita la comparabilidad entre los sujetos evaluados; al mismo tiempo, la evaluación cuantitativa permite a los académicos conmensurar los distintos productos de su trabajo y les da certeza sobre los posibles resultados de la evaluación.

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          This article analyzes the process of quantification of academic merit. The case of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), which was a global forerunner in the use of quantitative evaluation methods for professors, is examined in depth. Data was obtained by examining the listing tables employed by the university to quantity academic products, and by semistructured interviews and a voluntary survey amongfull time professors. The article details the changes in the instruments of evaluation used by the university and the impact that those have had on faculty performance. It also describes how quantitative evaluations allow university administrators to legitimate the evaluations and facilitate the comparability of the evaluated subjects; on the other hand, quantitative evaluations let faculty commensurate their different academic products and give them certainty about the possible outcomes of the evaluation process.

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              Gender and letters of recommendation for academia: agentic and communal differences.

              In 2 studies that draw from the social role theory of sex differences (A. H. Eagly, W. Wood, & A. B. Diekman, 2000), the authors investigated differences in agentic and communal characteristics in letters of recommendation for men and women for academic positions and whether such differences influenced selection decisions in academia. The results supported the hypotheses, indicating (a) that women were described as more communal and less agentic than men (Study 1) and (b) that communal characteristics have a negative relationship with hiring decisions in academia that are based on letters of recommendation (Study 2). Such results are particularly important because letters of recommendation continue to be heavily weighted and commonly used selection tools (R. D. Arvey & T. E. Campion, 1982; R. M. Guion, 1998), particularly in academia (E. P. Sheehan, T. M. McDevitt, & H. C. Ross, 1998).
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                Role: ND
                Journal
                peredu
                Perfiles educativos
                Perfiles educativos
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (México, DF, Mexico )
                0185-2698
                March 2017
                : 39
                : 155
                : 87-106
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                [1] orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación Mexico hectorvera@ 123456unam.mx
                Article
                S0185-26982017000100087
                e3c691f6-5f76-45d6-84ea-1822cf518c50

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 15 March 2016
                : 28 June 2016
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 48, Pages: 20
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                Quantitative evaluation,Universities,Metropolitan Autonomous University,Professors,University administration,Evaluación cuantitativa,Universidades,Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,Profesores,Administración universitaria

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