TEACHING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Valuation of the functional situation

The evaluation system of teaching performance has been established in Universidad Nacional de Cuyo since 1993. At the same time it was set up in Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. This reglamentation mentions the functional situation as an element to assess, however it does not provide criteria to do it. This work was made in order to develop different variables, which ones, alone or as indicators, allow to detect different activity causes by category, dedication and curricular situation of teachers. It was used a survey assigned to teachers by mean of proportional estratified sampling. Data were analized by uni, bi and multivariate techniques. With relation to four categories established in the Statute, remarkable differences in the types of made activities were not noticed. Same differences were found for teaching dedication and curricular cycles (basic, instrumental and professional). Conclusion: a) categories work equally, but head teachers have more participation at upgrade; b) only full time teachers have time to research an other activities; c) basic and instrumental teachers develop more intensive activity as regard all the areas, in comparision to the professional cycles.