PROMOTING QUALITY TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. A FORMATIVE EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION APPROACH IN A PILOT STUDY AT BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY

Promoting the quality of higher education teaching entails a focus on the innovation of teaching-learning processes in the university context that are both effectively oriented on developing high skills for all students and based on institutional conditions which are facilitating the quality of the teaching processes, and on qualified teachers. Within this perspective, we can place the Formative Educational Evaluation Project for the development of higher education Quality of Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna: it starts from an analysis of input, context, process and product quality indicators of a specific course of study in order to explore deeply teachers training needs and act effectively on them with appropriate training actions. The cyclic and recursive process started in the academic year 2016/2017; it puts the University professor as a focused and strategic ele-ment, the main actor of the renewal of higher education teaching and privileged observer ofthe teaching-learning contexts that take place within the Degree. The Pilot study's first results and data on students and teachers are reported in this article; they brought the researchers into an analysis of teaching needs in the field of higher education.