Competences perception and improvement plans for consolidating degrees on education: the students’ view

Abstract

This article is intended to assess the students´ training of competences in the Faculty of Education at the University of Murcia. Additionally, it focused on the competences, which were considered as essential for their professional performance and also the alternatives proposed to improve their degree. This study involved 629 students of the Faculty of Education. To gather information an ad hoc questionnaire was designed. Results showed the relevance of key skills for professional practice given by the students. Furthermore, the significant differences between the development and command of these competences by the participants were emphasized in the results. In order to optimize a university system the students propose a variety of improvement proposals about the structure of the curriculum and teaching-learning process are suggested.