EVALUACIÓN DE LA PERTINENCIA DE UN PROGRAMA DE CULTURA FÍSICA, DEPORTE Y RECREACIÓN DE UNA UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA EN COLOMBIA

The relevance of a university or an educational program is how it responds to the needs of society and its context. One of the ways to do this is through the performance of its graduates, a permanent university-graduate communication allows the institution to receive feedback and to assume the chang...

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Barreto Becerra, Mike William
Ramírez Muñoz, Paula Camila
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2018
Institución:
Universidad Santo Tomás
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Repositorio Institucional USTA
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spa
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oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37195
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http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1908
http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37195
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Summary:The relevance of a university or an educational program is how it responds to the needs of society and its context. One of the ways to do this is through the performance of its graduates, a permanent university-graduate communication allows the institution to receive feedback and to assume the changes that arise in the context with greater precision and dynamism.Objectives: evaluate the relevance of the academic program of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Recreation of a private university of Bucaramanga from the perspective of its graduates and its employability in the working market.Methodology: an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted, aimed at knowing the perception about the training and work performance of the graduates of the program of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Recreation of the University of Santo Tomás de Bucaramanga. Surveys were carried out using the instrument of the Observatorio Laboral de Educación de Colombia (OLE) and the model proposed by Beltrán and collaborators was implemented, to assume the follow-up path to graduates. The simple consisted of 63 graduates from the year 2000 to 2012. The association between variables was explored through the Chi2 tests for the qualitative variables and the Kruskal-Wallis test for nonparametric quantitative variables.Results: it was observed that the study participants fulfilled their initial expectations upon completing their studies and achieved an early working insertion in accordance with their competencies and training field.Conclusion: A clear mission of the University is evident for its purposes of spreading ethical professional values on the graduates, also since considers the education as a community commitment and states its profile from disciplinary and professional references.