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Claves para la mejora de los estudios de grado a través de la coordinación docente: una propuesta de investigación∗ Keys to improving undergraduate teaching through coordination: a research proposal.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ávila, Clara Molina Ibáñez, Azucena Penas |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Once deployed in full the implementation process of a new bachelor degree tuned in with the European Higher Education Area scheme and the Bologna principles, we present the results of a project aimed at assessing the alignment of the actual degree with the proposal verified by an external quality assessment agency prior to launching the degree. Coordination is and has always been a key factor in the success of academic enterprises, but unfortunately a traditionally neglected one too. This is why we launched a project aimed at: (1) analyzing all the module handbooks in the degree “from a student stance”, focusing on (i) student workload over the semester; (ii) assessment procedures; and (iii) eventual overlaps over the four-year degree; (2) matching the skills and competences included in the degree layout as approved by the quality assessment agency (linked to broad content fields) with the skills and competences included in the actual handbooks (linked to specific courses) so as to detect and prevent neglecting or overexposing students to any of them; and (3) disseminating the notion of “skills and competences” among students, to integrate them in the reflection process about their acquisition and assessment. After our study, we can actually confirm that the most serious flaws in the degree originate in the lack of coordination among lecturers, which motivates (a) unbalances in student workload; (b) lack of planning in the adoption of teaching and assessing innovative practices; and (c) a poor understanding of the relevance of the notion of “skills and competences”, both by students and (more significantly, in that it brings along overlaps and gaps over the degree) by lecturers. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://revista.uclm.es/index.php/rdi/article/download/659/683 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
