General Procedure to Evaluate the Progress and Results of the Student: Teaching and Learning the Skills of Manufacturing Engineering (original) (raw)

Key Engineering Materials, 2014

Abstract

The results of this paper suggest that there is a serious problem in the curricula definition of some degrees. It is necessary to analyze the educational activities, teaching methodologies and evaluation systems for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the institutional level. This will allow for improvements in the evaluation of competence acquisition. Therefore, it is necessary to review the definition of the curricula while paying special attention to the relationship between competences and courses because the current study has detected notable discrepancies. The courses must be evaluated through competences or, more precisely, through the results of the learning process. This would considerably improve an evaluation model of the progress and results on the learning acquired by graduated students in terms of competences and would match what is established in the current regulation. When analysing the results for any two students, a simple comparison based on grades is not realistic, as it depends on the subjectivity of instructors and teachers during the grading process. By contrast, an evaluation based on competences is much more objective and comparable and would demonstrate which university reaches a better level of both general and specific competence achievement. The results of the aforementioned procedure are of interest to employers, enabling them to search and hire the best students in the desired field of study.

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