%0 Journal Article %T La autoevaluaci¨®n institucional y su importancia en la educaci¨®n superior %A Figueroa Toala %A Ricardo %A Machado Ram¨ªrez %A Evelio F %J Humanidades M£¿£¿dicas %D 2012 %I Centro para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales y Human¨ªsticas en Salud %X nowadays, institutional self-appraisal meets the demands of creating a university that keeps up with the new advances of society, and at the same time a university that becomes the reflection of its society. a conceptual assessment of the existing conceptions of this process is carried out in this article. likewise, it is given a panoramic view of the tendencies referring to the different ways of visualizing this phenomenon of undeniable importance for the life and permanence of the higher education institutions. %K educational measurement %K education higher %K processes management indicators. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1727-81202012000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en