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T1 Methodologies for teaching an engineering subject in different countries: comparison and results
A1 Muñoz Pérez, Juan José
A1 M. Graça, Neves
A1 Simona, Fontul
A1 Marina, Miguez
A1 Sebastian, Solari
A1 Francisco, Pedocchi
A1 Luis, Teixeira
A1 Marina, Navarro Pons
A1 Coral, Ramos-Amaya
A2 Física Aplicada
K1 innovation teaching
AB Engineering or technical degrees are difficult to teach and, consequently, have always beencharacterized by a large number of academic failures. Therefore, continuous assessment has been applied to classes of similar content, related to Port and Coastal Engineering during these last years in three different Universities worldwide: University of La Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).This paper presents different methodologies used to teach and evaluate these courses at each University, together with the results of the evaluations of the students who were enrolled during the current and previous stages. Generally, a decrease in the number of students who abandon the classes has been noticed together with an increase in the percentage of students who pass and an improvement of their grades, except at the University Nova de Lisboa were the results have remained stable. In addition, changes experienced in the courses are discussed herein by comparing the percentage of success in the different locations. Moreover, influence of the different methodologies and the possible reasons for these changes are also presented and analysed.As a conclusion, the improvement in educational outcomes has been achieved through theconcurrence of different factors: the existence of more frequent written and/or oral exams, practical examples of case studies as well as access to specific tools of new technology and to documentation specifically prepared for the classes and available online.Evidently, the above mentioned tasks require a strong commitment and great effort by the teachingstaff. If human resources diminish, as it is happening in Spain and Portugal due to the budget reduction in education, two difficult questions arise: For how long will teachers’ current effort be maintained? What impact will have their complete devotion to teaching in their research performance?
PB L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres IATED Academy
SN 978-84-606-5763-7
YR 2015
FD 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/17225
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/17225
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026