Impact of microteaching on engineering students’communication skills

• Autores: Rodrigo Fernando Herrera, Juan Carlos Vielma Pérez, Felipe Cristobal Muñoz
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 34, no. 6, 2018, págs. 1768-1775
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In current educational processes, it is common to find that students make use of oral presentations with the purpose ofexposing a specific topic within the contents of a subject. These types of presentations are also intended for students to learnor improve oral presentation techniques, which generally enrich their communication skills. However, these activities areusually carried out without prior preparation or without well-defined terms of reference, obtaining different results, evenwithin homogeneous groups of students. The objective of the paper is focused on determining the effect of microteachingon engineering students’ oral presentation techniques and improve communications skills. To measure its impact, threecourses of different levels of the civil engineering career were selected (152 students), separating in each of them two groupsof students. Each group of students has been asked to prepare different oral presentations. The first group of studentsprepared the presentation in a traditional way, while, the second group of students prepared the presentation as if it were amicroteaching session. The oral presentations of the groups were evaluated, finding that the microteaching has a favorableimpact on the improvement of the communications skills of the students.