%0 Journal Article %T La calidad de la evaluaci¨®n y autoevaluaci¨®n institucional: enfoques y modelos %A Figueroa Toala %A Ricardo %J Humanidades M£¿£¿dicas %D 2012 %I Centro para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales y Human¨ªsticas en Salud %X one of the biggest challenges that university education faces nowadays, is to manage the corresponding changes that our contemporary society demands. a way to sensitize the academic world and to make innovation easier is through assessment and self-appraisal. this research work carried out a tendentious analysis of the different approaches and models of the institutional assessment and self-appraisal processes; as well as, of the current tendencies of the institutional self-appraisal process in higher education, by analyzing the concept of quality. %K educational measurement %K education higher %K quality improvement. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1727-81202012000300011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en