Development of Procedures to Assess Problem-Solving Competence in Computing Engineering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20296981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge Pérez (0000-0002-4374-3176), Jorge E Pérez-Martínez (0000-0003-3349-6017, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Carmen Vizcarro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Javier García (0000-0002-1316-5029), J Garcı́a (0000-0003-2053-9225, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Aurelio Bermudez (0000-0002-3313-4078, University of Castilla-La Mancha), Ruth Cobos (0000-0002-3411-3009, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-28 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/te.2016.2582736 |
| OpenAlex | W2473283196 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
In the context of higher education, a competence may be understood as the combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a professional area. The aim of the work reported here was to design a set of procedures to assess a transferable competence, i.e., problem solving, that is basic for learning, in both academic and professional life, and crucial for engineering. The study involved a total of 71 students enrolled at three universities at two different stages of their studies. The development phases of the assessment device included an analysis of the competence and its facets, the design of the assessment task, the development of criteria to rate student performance, and the analysis of the basic psychometric properties for assessment methods in the area of education. The conclusion was drawn that the training process and the elaboration of scoring criteria are costly but necessary if objectivity in the interpretation of results is to be guaranteed. The main achievement of this project was the development of a procedure that measures learning outcomes and, more specifically, problem solving
Competence (human resources) · Elaboration · Engineering education · Engineering management · Knowledge management · Mathematics education · Objectivity (philosophy) · Artificial Intelligence · Biomedical and Engineering Education · Computer Science · Engineering · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development · Problem and Project Based Learning · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Learning outcomes in higher education
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |