Resumo

RODRIGUEZ SABIOTE, Clemente  e  GUTIERREZ PEREZ, José. Weaknesses of the Quality Evaluation Process in the Spanish Universities: Causes, Consequences and Improvement Proposals. REDIE [online]. 2003, vol.5, n.1, pp.1-26. ISSN 1607-4041.

The quality evaluation process in the Spanish universities, which has been going since the beginning of 90's it has generated indisputable advantages. Nevertheless, a whole series of problems affecting the process has been detected, whose consequences are hard to predict a priori. The paper examines some of the detected weaknesses, their causes and consequences; and a number of suggestions are given in order to improve the quality evaluation process in those institutions.

Palavras-chave : Quality evaluation in higher education; performance indicators in higher education.