ShareWe present the Cross-sectional Teacher Training Report
The report analyses the running of the Master's Degree in Secondary School Teacher Training at all Catalan universities offering the programme
More than a decade after the University Master's Degree in Teacher Training was first started, receiving its first accreditation in 2015 and renewal in 2020, AQU Catalunya has published the Cross-sectional Report on this master's degree programme, which aims to assess how quality of this master's degree has evolved, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. In particular, the report shares the results of the master's degree's accreditation renewal as well as other data related to its running, such as the results of the survey of students' satisfaction after completing the master's degree, of the job placement survey and of the survey of education centres regarding the skills of the new teaching staff.
The results of the latest Master's Degree in Teacher Training accreditations show an improvement in its quality in all the assessed standards related to training programme quality. The results among universities have been heterogeneous: two universities have achieved standards valued as progressing towards excellence, another two have met all the standards and the rest of the universities will have to devote efforts to better preparing teaching staff and improving the quality of results or the effectiveness of their IQAS.
In this respect, the most relevant aspects where there is room for improvement are as follows:
- Increase the participation of stakeholders in the development of the IQAS as well as encourage and increase the participation of all groups in assessment surveys, complementing and diversifying their use through different information collection systems, including self-assessment.
- Improve the evidence shown by the processes related to the revision of the IQAS, helping to systematise and temporarily sequence the continuous improvement of its procedures.
- Improve the teaching profile of the master's degree programme's teaching and research staff, increasing the percentage of doctoral teaching staff in accordance with the minimum required by current regulations (RD 420/2015, of 29 May), as well as the proportion of teaching staff with permanent links with the University.
- Improve the criteria for planning, organising and distributing the teaching programmes that make up the master's degree.
In addition, surveys of Master's Degree in Teacher Training student satisfaction and graduate job placement show that:
- Overall student satisfaction with the master's degree is low compared to the Catalan university system master's programme average. The aspect they value most in their training is, by far, external training placements.
- Three years after completing the master's degree, 74% are performing specific functions related to this master's degree, a percentage much higher than the average master's degree in the system (62%).
And, finally, education centres receiving the new teaching staff indicated the following needs in terms of their skills:
- Improve the ability to manage the classroom as well as to overcome deficits in basic psycho-pedagogical knowledge
