Pedagogy Practicum Assessment: Changes to the European Higher Education Area

Abstract

The current changes to the construction of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) have led to changes in the curricula of every major at the universities of Spain. The career of Education, which since its inception has been proposed as a five-year, had to adapt to new regulations, being reduced to four years. This change has also led to a structural change in relation to practices undertaken by the students of this degree. The present study evaluates the new Practicum plan, compared to the previous program, in order to analyze what trends the changes introduced follow. The Analysis of design and planning has been developed; as well as the evaluation of a number of quality and improvement criteria based on the opinions of teachers and students of the pedagogy career at the University of Granada.