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Papers by Maria del Carmen Bas
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
The "Effective oral communication" is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the workplace,... more The "Effective oral communication" is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the workplace, since being a good communicator is essential in any field. Inefficient communication can lead to misinterpretations and erroneous conclusions. Therefore, it is a very important student outcome both in the university and in the workplace. The student or graduate must know how to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, appropriately using the necessary resources and adapting to the characteristics of the situation and the audience. However, despite its importance, the disparity in the mastery level of the oral communication student outcome by students makes it difficult to work this ability in the classroom through collective activities. For this reason, to properly develop this student outcome in a subject, it is important to have an idea of the main weaknesses that students have in terms of effective oral communication, to be able to establish and carry out actions and training activities that can improve that transversal student outcome. This article presents the analysis of the main weaknesses that students of a university subject have. This analysis is made based on a self-assessment survey, a self-diagnosis, which allows the student to detect their weaknesses and strengths in the domain of effective oral communication, and at the same time, gives information to the teacher about the main deficiencies of their students, so the teacher can devise and launch training activities appropriate to the level of their students.
Libro de Actas IN-RED 2019: V Congreso de Innovación Edicativa y Docencia en Red, 2019
Desarrollar el resultado estudiantil de "Comunicación oral efectiva" es una nueva estra... more Desarrollar el resultado estudiantil de "Comunicación oral efectiva" es una nueva estrategia dentro de los estudios universitarios, tanto en licenciatura como en másteres. Para alcanzar este objetivo, se creó la metodología Comunica’t en 2017 dentro de un Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora Educativa. (PIME) en la Universitat Poliècnica de València. El proyecto tiene como objetivo fundamental que el estudiante, después de realizar un test de autodiagnóstico, pueda mejorar su comunicación oral efectiva a través de un itinerario de autoaprendizaje. De esta manera, el estudiante, a partir de su nivel inicial de competencia en términos de comunicación oral efectiva, sigue un itinerario autoformativo particularizado a su situación específica, con las actividades de capacitación apropiadas. Después de dos años académicos de implementación, el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el grado de contribución de esta metodología al desarrollo de la competencia "Comunicación oral efec...
INTED2019 Proceedings, 2019
Effective oral communication is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the labour market, e... more Effective oral communication is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the labour market, especially for degree students on International Business. Although this outcome is usually evaluated in several subjects along the curriculum, it is barely worked neither inside nor outside the classroom, mainly due to lack of time and to unavailability of proper learning methodologies. The PIMECOE project, an innovation and educational improvement project on this matter, has developed a self-learning methodology on the Effective Oral Communication student outcome, in which auto-diagnosis tests, selflearning tools and peer assessments are conveniently combined to enhance the proficiency level of the students in an autonomous way. As part of this project, and after some previous successful pilot studies, we have run this methodology with International Bussiness' students within the "Learning instruments and techniques" subject during the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year at the Universitat de València. After carrying out a quantitative analysis of the results, we have found generalised improvements on the proficiency level of the oral communication outcome of the participant students. Satisfaction surveys suggest that the application of this methodology has really helped the student to become conscious of unrealised weaknesses and therefore to boost their oral skills.
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
The main objective of this work is to make a proposal for continuous improvement on the use of sh... more The main objective of this work is to make a proposal for continuous improvement on the use of short educational videos in order to improve the teaching-learning process at Mathematics I, a university subject present in the curriculum of several social-economical degrees such as Business Administration, Economics, or International Business at the Universitat de València (Spain). In order to enhance the quality of this process, it is necessary to make inquiries of the impressions that the students have about it. In this particular case, we wanted to know the perception that students had after the use of short educational videos of applied mathematics contents during the course. These videos were carefully created by their professors in order to promote autonomous and active learning. Thus, we developed an opinion survey to gather their opinions. This survey measured the students' perception on the degree of usefulness of the teaching materials of the subject and, in particular, the degree of satisfaction on the short educational videos. The results show that, in general, there is a high degree of satisfaction in the use of these videos for self-learning of mathematical concepts. Suggestions from the students allowed us to adopt improvement measures devoted to upgrade the quality of the teaching-learning process.
EDULEARN19 Proceedings, 2019
This work has been developed within the research project called “Implementacion de una plataforma... more This work has been developed within the research project called “Implementacion de una plataforma cloud para el desarrollo de una metodologia autoformativa de la CT “Comunicacion Efectiva” y sus procesos de evaluacion” (Exp.: PIME/18-19/51) funded by the Vice-Rectorate for Studies, Quality and Acreditation of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.
INTED2019 Proceedings, 2019
It is sometimes difficult for the student to participate actively in the learning process due to ... more It is sometimes difficult for the student to participate actively in the learning process due to the difficulty that teachers find when trying to cover all the contents of a course with sufficient time and attention. This lack of time prevents professors from properly stimulating the student’s active participation in class, which is always necessary for achieving a deep and significant learning. The present paper describes a flipped-classroom-based methodology that fosters autonomous learning of applied mathematics contents using short educational videos. The use of on-line media learning resources has dramatically increased in the last decade in higher education, not only under the well-known flipped classroom approach but also as replacement of conventional face-to-face lectures. The application of this methodology will give professors more time to make students work actively and cooperatively at class in the application of mathematical techniques for solving complex exercises and...
EDULEARN19 Proceedings, 2019
The main goal of the present study is to analyze the satisfaction level of the students from the ... more The main goal of the present study is to analyze the satisfaction level of the students from the master degree “Food Safety and Quality Management” with the “ComunicaT” methodology, which was applied to improve the mastery level of the “Effective Oral Communication” student outcome. This methodology is being developed under an innovative and educational improvement research project funded by the Universitat Politècnica de València, and the general idea behind it is that the student, after performing an auto-diagnosis test, becomes capable to autonomously improve its oral communication skills. Thereby, the student, starting from his initial mastery level on this student outcome, follows a selfformative, adapted learning itinerary with proper learning activities for him/her to enhance his masterliness on this topic. The methodology has been carefully designed by several university lecturers coming from different universities, with a wide range of different profiles. It is mandatory to...
EDULEARN18 Proceedings, 2018
Among the different student outcomes that scholars should achieve during their University studies... more Among the different student outcomes that scholars should achieve during their University studies, "Effective Oral Communication" is one of the most important ones since being an excellent communicator is essential not only for their professional careers but also for their social life. However, the different provenance of students when arrived at University results in most cases in a huge disparity in the mastery of the outcome, which makes it difficult to work in class through collective activities. In order to solve this problem, in this work, the development of a self-diagnosis guide to assess the initial mastery level of the "Effective Oral Communication" student outcome is proposed. With this tool, both students and teachers will have a complete knowledge of the initial level of the outcome in order to detect the weaknesses and strengths in its mastery outcome. Therefore, the proposed self-diagnosis guide will permit teachers to adapt the activities to work the outcome in class to the actual level of their students which will result in a higher improve of the mastery level of the outcome.
RIDE Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo, 2019
Existe un amplio consenso respecto al hecho de que hay una brecha entre las habilidades propias d... more Existe un amplio consenso respecto al hecho de que hay una brecha entre las habilidades propias del siglo XXI que el mercado laboral demanda a los nuevos profesionales y las habilidades que estos adquieren en el ámbito de la educación superior. Diversos estudios demuestran que la habilidad de comunicación es de las más demandas por los empleadores, a la vez que una de las más precarias entre los recién egresados.El objetivo del presente trabajo fue establecer el estado actual de la investigación respecto a instrumentos de medición de la habilidad de comunicación en estudiantes de educación superior. Se realizó una revisión sistemática de la literatura especializada en instrumentos para medir la habilidad de comunicación en estudiantes con base en el método Prisma. Fueron revisados textos publicados desde 2014 a la fecha en las bases de datos Scopus y Web of Science. Se hizo énfasis en el análisis del riesgo de sesgo, realizado con la herramienta de la colaboración Cochrane. Así, se ...
EDULEARN18 Proceedings, 2018
PIMECOE is an Innovation and Educational Improvement Project that aims to work on the student out... more PIMECOE is an Innovation and Educational Improvement Project that aims to work on the student outcome "Effective Communication". Its main objective is to design a methodology that promotes the autonomous improvement of oral communication skills. In order to do so, students can assess their initial level of proficiency of oral communication through the self-diagnosis tools proposed. Once weaknesses and strengths have been detected, they are encouraged to enrol a suggested selfformative itinerary which includes learning activities that may improve their mastery of this student outcome. As part of the design process of this PIMECOE methodology, a preliminary test has been carried out with students of the subject Introduction to Architecture (Fundaments of Architecture Degree) during the first semester of the 2017/2018 academic year. This experimental implementation, called IARexp, aims to evaluate the success of the methodology and to get feedback from the students that will be thoroughly analysed in order to develop an upgraded ulterior version. The present paper firstly presents an introduction to the PIMECOE methodology (context, objectives and specific tools associated). Secondly, the academic context for the IARexp and the chronogram for its implementation is set. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative analysis carried out from the results obtained so far will be exposed.
Comunicar
The current labor market demands new qualities and knowledge from the recent graduates of univers... more The current labor market demands new qualities and knowledge from the recent graduates of universities. This has been called ‘21st century digital skills’ and there is not enough research on the self-perception of students in this regard. The objective of this research was to measure student self-perception about their own 21st century digital skills related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Higher Education. A questionnaire was generated and applied to 356 students with the stratified random sampling technique. A principal component analysis was carried out, supported by adequate values of the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient and the Bartlett sphericity test. The data indicate that the students use digital technology in academic projects, primarily; they have a lot of skill when using ICT for information management, to develop critical thinking and to solve problems, as well as to manage mobile devices. However, their self-perception in the use of ICT ...
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
The "Effective oral communication" is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the workplace,... more The "Effective oral communication" is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the workplace, since being a good communicator is essential in any field. Inefficient communication can lead to misinterpretations and erroneous conclusions. Therefore, it is a very important student outcome both in the university and in the workplace. The student or graduate must know how to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, appropriately using the necessary resources and adapting to the characteristics of the situation and the audience. However, despite its importance, the disparity in the mastery level of the oral communication student outcome by students makes it difficult to work this ability in the classroom through collective activities. For this reason, to properly develop this student outcome in a subject, it is important to have an idea of the main weaknesses that students have in terms of effective oral communication, to be able to establish and carry out actions and training activities that can improve that transversal student outcome. This article presents the analysis of the main weaknesses that students of a university subject have. This analysis is made based on a self-assessment survey, a self-diagnosis, which allows the student to detect their weaknesses and strengths in the domain of effective oral communication, and at the same time, gives information to the teacher about the main deficiencies of their students, so the teacher can devise and launch training activities appropriate to the level of their students.
Libro de Actas IN-RED 2019: V Congreso de Innovación Edicativa y Docencia en Red, 2019
Desarrollar el resultado estudiantil de "Comunicación oral efectiva" es una nueva estra... more Desarrollar el resultado estudiantil de "Comunicación oral efectiva" es una nueva estrategia dentro de los estudios universitarios, tanto en licenciatura como en másteres. Para alcanzar este objetivo, se creó la metodología Comunica’t en 2017 dentro de un Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora Educativa. (PIME) en la Universitat Poliècnica de València. El proyecto tiene como objetivo fundamental que el estudiante, después de realizar un test de autodiagnóstico, pueda mejorar su comunicación oral efectiva a través de un itinerario de autoaprendizaje. De esta manera, el estudiante, a partir de su nivel inicial de competencia en términos de comunicación oral efectiva, sigue un itinerario autoformativo particularizado a su situación específica, con las actividades de capacitación apropiadas. Después de dos años académicos de implementación, el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el grado de contribución de esta metodología al desarrollo de la competencia "Comunicación oral efec...
INTED2019 Proceedings, 2019
Effective oral communication is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the labour market, e... more Effective oral communication is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the labour market, especially for degree students on International Business. Although this outcome is usually evaluated in several subjects along the curriculum, it is barely worked neither inside nor outside the classroom, mainly due to lack of time and to unavailability of proper learning methodologies. The PIMECOE project, an innovation and educational improvement project on this matter, has developed a self-learning methodology on the Effective Oral Communication student outcome, in which auto-diagnosis tests, selflearning tools and peer assessments are conveniently combined to enhance the proficiency level of the students in an autonomous way. As part of this project, and after some previous successful pilot studies, we have run this methodology with International Bussiness' students within the "Learning instruments and techniques" subject during the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year at the Universitat de València. After carrying out a quantitative analysis of the results, we have found generalised improvements on the proficiency level of the oral communication outcome of the participant students. Satisfaction surveys suggest that the application of this methodology has really helped the student to become conscious of unrealised weaknesses and therefore to boost their oral skills.
EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
The main objective of this work is to make a proposal for continuous improvement on the use of sh... more The main objective of this work is to make a proposal for continuous improvement on the use of short educational videos in order to improve the teaching-learning process at Mathematics I, a university subject present in the curriculum of several social-economical degrees such as Business Administration, Economics, or International Business at the Universitat de València (Spain). In order to enhance the quality of this process, it is necessary to make inquiries of the impressions that the students have about it. In this particular case, we wanted to know the perception that students had after the use of short educational videos of applied mathematics contents during the course. These videos were carefully created by their professors in order to promote autonomous and active learning. Thus, we developed an opinion survey to gather their opinions. This survey measured the students' perception on the degree of usefulness of the teaching materials of the subject and, in particular, the degree of satisfaction on the short educational videos. The results show that, in general, there is a high degree of satisfaction in the use of these videos for self-learning of mathematical concepts. Suggestions from the students allowed us to adopt improvement measures devoted to upgrade the quality of the teaching-learning process.
EDULEARN19 Proceedings, 2019
This work has been developed within the research project called “Implementacion de una plataforma... more This work has been developed within the research project called “Implementacion de una plataforma cloud para el desarrollo de una metodologia autoformativa de la CT “Comunicacion Efectiva” y sus procesos de evaluacion” (Exp.: PIME/18-19/51) funded by the Vice-Rectorate for Studies, Quality and Acreditation of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.
INTED2019 Proceedings, 2019
It is sometimes difficult for the student to participate actively in the learning process due to ... more It is sometimes difficult for the student to participate actively in the learning process due to the difficulty that teachers find when trying to cover all the contents of a course with sufficient time and attention. This lack of time prevents professors from properly stimulating the student’s active participation in class, which is always necessary for achieving a deep and significant learning. The present paper describes a flipped-classroom-based methodology that fosters autonomous learning of applied mathematics contents using short educational videos. The use of on-line media learning resources has dramatically increased in the last decade in higher education, not only under the well-known flipped classroom approach but also as replacement of conventional face-to-face lectures. The application of this methodology will give professors more time to make students work actively and cooperatively at class in the application of mathematical techniques for solving complex exercises and...
EDULEARN19 Proceedings, 2019
The main goal of the present study is to analyze the satisfaction level of the students from the ... more The main goal of the present study is to analyze the satisfaction level of the students from the master degree “Food Safety and Quality Management” with the “ComunicaT” methodology, which was applied to improve the mastery level of the “Effective Oral Communication” student outcome. This methodology is being developed under an innovative and educational improvement research project funded by the Universitat Politècnica de València, and the general idea behind it is that the student, after performing an auto-diagnosis test, becomes capable to autonomously improve its oral communication skills. Thereby, the student, starting from his initial mastery level on this student outcome, follows a selfformative, adapted learning itinerary with proper learning activities for him/her to enhance his masterliness on this topic. The methodology has been carefully designed by several university lecturers coming from different universities, with a wide range of different profiles. It is mandatory to...
EDULEARN18 Proceedings, 2018
Among the different student outcomes that scholars should achieve during their University studies... more Among the different student outcomes that scholars should achieve during their University studies, "Effective Oral Communication" is one of the most important ones since being an excellent communicator is essential not only for their professional careers but also for their social life. However, the different provenance of students when arrived at University results in most cases in a huge disparity in the mastery of the outcome, which makes it difficult to work in class through collective activities. In order to solve this problem, in this work, the development of a self-diagnosis guide to assess the initial mastery level of the "Effective Oral Communication" student outcome is proposed. With this tool, both students and teachers will have a complete knowledge of the initial level of the outcome in order to detect the weaknesses and strengths in its mastery outcome. Therefore, the proposed self-diagnosis guide will permit teachers to adapt the activities to work the outcome in class to the actual level of their students which will result in a higher improve of the mastery level of the outcome.
RIDE Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo, 2019
Existe un amplio consenso respecto al hecho de que hay una brecha entre las habilidades propias d... more Existe un amplio consenso respecto al hecho de que hay una brecha entre las habilidades propias del siglo XXI que el mercado laboral demanda a los nuevos profesionales y las habilidades que estos adquieren en el ámbito de la educación superior. Diversos estudios demuestran que la habilidad de comunicación es de las más demandas por los empleadores, a la vez que una de las más precarias entre los recién egresados.El objetivo del presente trabajo fue establecer el estado actual de la investigación respecto a instrumentos de medición de la habilidad de comunicación en estudiantes de educación superior. Se realizó una revisión sistemática de la literatura especializada en instrumentos para medir la habilidad de comunicación en estudiantes con base en el método Prisma. Fueron revisados textos publicados desde 2014 a la fecha en las bases de datos Scopus y Web of Science. Se hizo énfasis en el análisis del riesgo de sesgo, realizado con la herramienta de la colaboración Cochrane. Así, se ...
EDULEARN18 Proceedings, 2018
PIMECOE is an Innovation and Educational Improvement Project that aims to work on the student out... more PIMECOE is an Innovation and Educational Improvement Project that aims to work on the student outcome "Effective Communication". Its main objective is to design a methodology that promotes the autonomous improvement of oral communication skills. In order to do so, students can assess their initial level of proficiency of oral communication through the self-diagnosis tools proposed. Once weaknesses and strengths have been detected, they are encouraged to enrol a suggested selfformative itinerary which includes learning activities that may improve their mastery of this student outcome. As part of the design process of this PIMECOE methodology, a preliminary test has been carried out with students of the subject Introduction to Architecture (Fundaments of Architecture Degree) during the first semester of the 2017/2018 academic year. This experimental implementation, called IARexp, aims to evaluate the success of the methodology and to get feedback from the students that will be thoroughly analysed in order to develop an upgraded ulterior version. The present paper firstly presents an introduction to the PIMECOE methodology (context, objectives and specific tools associated). Secondly, the academic context for the IARexp and the chronogram for its implementation is set. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative analysis carried out from the results obtained so far will be exposed.
Comunicar
The current labor market demands new qualities and knowledge from the recent graduates of univers... more The current labor market demands new qualities and knowledge from the recent graduates of universities. This has been called ‘21st century digital skills’ and there is not enough research on the self-perception of students in this regard. The objective of this research was to measure student self-perception about their own 21st century digital skills related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Higher Education. A questionnaire was generated and applied to 356 students with the stratified random sampling technique. A principal component analysis was carried out, supported by adequate values of the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient and the Bartlett sphericity test. The data indicate that the students use digital technology in academic projects, primarily; they have a lot of skill when using ICT for information management, to develop critical thinking and to solve problems, as well as to manage mobile devices. However, their self-perception in the use of ICT ...