Assessing the Impact of Continuous Evaluation Strategies
Tradeoff Between Student Performance and Instructor Effort
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20297002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José-Luis Poza-Luján (0000-0003-2450-9920, Universitat Politècnica de València), Carlos T Calafate (0000-0001-5729-3041, Universitat Politècnica de València), Juan-Luis Posadas-Yague (0000-0002-5017-8689, Universitat Politècnica de València), Juan‐carlos Cano (0000-0002-0038-0539, Universitat Politècnica de València), Juan-Carlos Cano |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-23 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| 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.2015.2418740 |
| OpenAlex | W2069090225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Continuous assessment · Continuous monitoring · Continuous training · Engineering management · Mathematics education · Operations management · Process (computing) · Workload · Computer Science · Engineering · Experimental Learning in Engineering · Innovative Teaching Methods · Psychology · Student Assessment and Feedback
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |