Assessing the Impact of Continuous Evaluation Strategies: Tradeoff between Student Performance and Instructor Effort

Autor/inn/en	Poza-Lujan, Jose-Luis; Calafate, Carlos T.; Posadas-Yagüe, Juan-Luis; Cano, Juan-Carlos
Titel	Assessing the Impact of Continuous Evaluation Strategies: Tradeoff between Student Performance and Instructor Effort
Quelle	In: IEEE Transactions on Education, 59 (2016) 1, S.17-23 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Poza-Lujan, Jose-Luis)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-9359
DOI	10.1109/TE.2015.2418740
Schlagwörter	Evaluation Methods; Progress Monitoring; Performance Based Assessment; Teacher Effectiveness; Teaching Methods; Learning Processes; Skill Development; Computer Science Education; Engineering Education; Teaching Load; Formative Evaluation; Undergraduate Study; Instructional Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Spain (Valencia) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leistungsermittlung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Learning process; Lernprozess; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Ingenieurausbildung; Lehrdeputat; Grundstudium; Ausland
Abstract	Current opinion on undergraduate studies has led to a reformulation of teaching methodologies to base them not just on learning, but also on skills and competencies. In this approach, the teaching/learning process should accomplish both knowledge assimilation and skill development. Previous works demonstrated that a strategy that uses continuous evaluation is able to meet both objectives. However, those studies did not evaluate and quantify the additional effort required to implement such strategies. This paper evaluates the additional instructor effort required when implementing continuous evaluation in a first-year Computer Fundamentals course in the Computer Engineering degree program at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain. The experiment quantifies how instructor workload increases under different continuous evaluation strategies and how this affects the overall student grade. Both the "standard" continuous evaluation method and the intensive continuous evaluation method are analyzed, the latter being a proposal that builds upon the standard method by increasing the number of tests and examinations. The results obtained reveal that continuous evaluation improves student grades but that intensive continuous evaluation is liable to generate an excessive instructor overload without having a significant impact on student scores. (As Provided).
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