Innovative evaluation by projects for course with mixed computer science degrees
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Autores: José María Gutiérrez Martínez
, Ana Castillo Martínez , Juan Aguado Delgado, Roberto Barchino Plata , Chan Sik Park
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 34, no. Extra 4, 2018, págs. 1212-1222
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper explains the evaluation method applied to a specific capstone course, called ‘‘Ubiquitous computing’’, taught indifferent Computer Science Degrees of the University of Alcala ́(Spain). Along the previous editions of the course severalissues have been discovered, which are intended to be solved with the proposed method that was used as evaluation systemof the subject in year 2016–2017. The issues are related to the number of students of each degree that compose the groupeach year, the contents’ deviation, the low marks obtained in previous years, the methodological mismatch in relation withother subjects and the bad alignment of the evaluation method used before. With the idea of obtaining better marks, acloser experience to the real situation in software companies and higher satisfaction level of the students, the learningexperience proposed implies teamwork, a project-based learning perspective and a balanced use of the technologies.Taking the results obtained through its implantation along the last academic year, it can be concluded that the evaluationmethod shown in this document enhances the learning process and the contents are closer to the course initial conception,and students got more involved and obtained better results.
