Proposals for improving assessment systems in higher education: an approach from the model 'Working with people'

Autor: Susana Sastre Merino, Consuelo Fernández Jiménez, Noemi García Arjona, María Cristina Núñez Del Rio, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado, Encarnación Reyes Pozo
Jazyk: Catalan; Valencian
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Education
Higher

Higher education
Educación
Teaching method
media_common.quotation_subject
Technical studies
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Academic achievement
Bachelor
lcsh:Technology
Teachers’ voice
Ensenyament -- Innovacions
Grounded theory
Focus group
Aeronáutica
Education
Continuous assessment
021105 building & construction
Mathematics education
Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Ensenyament universitari
Competence (human resources)
media_common
lcsh:LC8-6691
Tecnologia educativa -- Ensenyament universitari
lcsh:Special aspects of education
business.industry
lcsh:T
4. Education
05 social sciences
Educational innovations
050301 education
Innovative learning
Educational technology
lcsh:TA1-2040
Students’ voice
Psychology
business
lcsh:L
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
0503 education
innovative learning
continuous assessment
focus group
technical studies
students’ voice
teachers’ voice

lcsh:Education
Zdroj: JOTSE: Journal of technology and science education; 2016: Vol.: 6 Núm.: 2
UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Redalyc
Journal of Technology and Science Education, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 104-120 (2016)
Journal of Technology and Science Education, ISSN 2013-6374, 2016-02, Vol. 6, No. 2
Archivo Digital UPM
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Popis: The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) represents a challenge to university teachers to adapt their assessment systems, directing them towards continuous assessment. The integration of competence-based learning as an educational benchmark has also led to a perspective more focused on student and with complex learning situations closer to reality. However, its assessment entails an increase in lecturers’ workload and a continuous demand for students due to the diversity of assessment tests required to assess each aspect of competences. After a period in which those changes have been introduced, the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) considered to analyse the assessment systems and the ways to improve them, at both bachelor's and master's degree programmes. The methodology used is based on the model "Working with People", which for the first time at the UPM, creates a participatory process with students and lecturers aimed at knowing their opinion and their feelings about the assessment process and the potential for improvement. Eight WWW-workshops were developed, with 32 students and 39 university teachers in total. The results indicate that the perception of students and lecturers regarding the assessment systems have many common points, as well as the need to undertake an improvement strategy for integrating actions from all three model dimensions, seeking a balance in joint work among lecturers, university administrators and students. This work has been performed within the framework of educational innovations cross-cutting project named "Analysis of the UPM Degree Programmes Evaluation Procedures and Proposal for Improvements"(EVALÚA)", supported by the Educational Innovation Department.
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