System of Evaluation of Higher Education in Portugal: interview with Carlinda Leite

ABSTRACT Carlinda Leite holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal (1998). She is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) and a senior researcher and Director of the Center for Research and Educational Intervention (CIIE), as well as coordinator of the Community Research Practice “Curriculum, Training and Educational Technologies “(CAFTe). Since 2009, she is an expert in the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) in the area of Teacher Education and Education / Education Sciences. From 2015 on, it has coordinated all the commissions that evaluate the university courses of Education / Education Sciences in Portugal. Still in the field of assessment, he participated in university course evaluations in Croatia and Lithuania. Until 2014, he was Vice-President of the Scientific-Pedagogical Council of Continuing Education (CCPFC), an organization that in Portugal evaluates and accredits institutions, courses and trainers of continuing teacher training. He supervised 26 doctoral theses, 18 “sandwich doctorates” and 14 postdoctoral studies. She is the author or co-author of several articles, books and chapters of books, both national and foreign. Published in the last five years, 66 articles in international circulation journals in co-authoring or individual authorship, 27 in SCOPUS and / or WOS journals.