An educational online tool for the initial assessment of skills needed for the final-year project

Abstract

This work aims at shedding some light on new challenges faced by European universities nowadays. Education in the European Union has dramatically changed with the implementation of the European Higher Education System (EHES). These changes represent a challenge for lecturers from higher education both at an instrumental and at a methodological level. One of the main novelties of the EHES within the Spanish educational system is that all students need to elaborate an undergraduate dissertation in order to obtain the degree title. Considering lecturers’ current workload we believe it would be convenient for tutors to have an evaluation tool that allows them to rapidly and accurately assess the key abilities that students already master and their training needs in order to be successful in elaborating the final-year project dissertation. In this work we propose an online tool that aims at facilitating tutors when providing tuition of final-year projects. To conclude we consider that this innovative assessment tool will help lecturers during the tutoring process of the final-year project in different degrees.

Publication
INTED2015 Proceedings