NDLI: Assessing the Impact of Continuous Evaluation Strategies: Tradeoff Between Student Performance and Instructor Effort

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Poza-Lujan, J.-L. Calafate, C.T. Posadas-Yague, J.-L. Cano, J.-C.
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	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.
Sponsorship	IEEE Education Society
Starting Page	17
Ending Page	23
Page Count	7
File Size	744817
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189359
Volume Number	59
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2016-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Education Standards Computers Europe Measurement Seminars Indexes student performance Continuous assessment formative assessment instructor workload
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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