Active learning and generic competences in an operatig systemns course

• Autores: Jorge Pérez Martínez, Javier García, Isabel Muñoz, Almudena Sierra Alonso
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 26, no. 6, 2010, págs. 1484-1492
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Bologna Declaration and the implementation of the European Higher Education Area are promoting the use of active learningmethodologies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects obtained after applying active learning methodologies to the achievementof generic competences as well as to the academic performance. This study has been carried out at the Universidad Polite ́cnica deMadrid, where these methodologies have been applied to the Operating Systems I subject of the degree in Technical Engineering inComputer Systems. The fundamental hypothesis tested was whether the implementation of active learning methodologies (cooperativelearning and problem based learning) favours the achievement of certain generic competences (‘teamwork’ and ‘planning and timemanagement’) and also whether this fact improved the academic performance of our students. The original approach of this workconsists in using psychometric tests to measure the degree of acquired student’s generic competences instead of using opinion surveys, asusual. Results indicated that active learning methodologies improve the academic performance when compared to the traditional lecture/discussion method, according to the success rate obtained. These methods seem to have as well an effect on the teamwork competence(the perception of the behaviour of the other members in the group) but not on the perception of each students’ behaviour. Activelearning does not produce any significant change in the generic competence ‘planning and time management’.