Use of Educational Resources and Academic Performance: Analysis and Comparison for the Degree on Engineering of Industrial Technologies †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
5. Conclusions
- It is essential to reduce the possibilities of copying in the assessment tasks.
- Regarding laboratory sessions, it could be useful to make a brief evaluation at the beginning of the session, being able to practice only the students who have actually prepared it.
- As for guided tasks, the use of forms to introduce the results during this course has the advance of automating the correction, but it seems to have encouraged the fraudulent copy, since many more cases have been detected than in previous courses. It will be necessary to take coercive measures or design multiple cases to reduce it.
- Although it is not really the role of the teacher, it seems necessary to remind the student the usefulness of non-compulsory resources such as videos, self-assessment questionnaires or summaries to carry out meaningful and effective learning.
- Implementing an evaluation by rubrics so that the student has clear progress in the course, could be motivating but the teacher has to find an efficient way to manage them, since Moodle tool is not an acceptable option in large groups as for the case study [10].
Acknowledgments
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Course | S (%) | A/S | T/A (min) | T/Q (min) | Grade | A | S (%) | A/S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015–2016 | 71.4 | 1.7 | 24 | 2.4 | 5.3 | 303 | 29.9 | 2.5 |
2016–2017 | 73.3 | 1.7 | 22 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 285 | 35.3 | 1.6 |
2017–2018 | 77.4 | 1.8 | 15 | 1.0 | 7.3 | 140 | 25.2 | 1.3 |
Curso | 2015–2016 | 2016–2017 | 2017–2018 |
---|---|---|---|
Number of enrolled students | 42 | 69 | 52 |
Grade in Moodle questionnaires | 5.3 | 6.6 | 7.3 |
Grade in guided tasks | 6.8 | 7.4 | 7.7 |
Grade in final exam (passed students) | 6.5 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
Students who did the exam (%) | 90.7 | 91.3 | 90.4 |
Students who passed the exam (%) | 48.7 | 66.7 | 45.8 |
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