Analysis of skills to engineering students with the Cycloid tool
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Abstract
Higher education institutions play an important role in the development of future professionals’ generations. Regarding to teach in these institutions, it is difficult to apply technologies that help to know the state of personal and social students’ competences. The present contribution works with a technology focuses on the self-assessment of personal and social competences and the comparison with the level that the student considers must have, using for this study the analysis of creative tension. The study compares engineering students using a computer application called Cycloid and is an update of results from a first analysis carried out previously (Alcala et al., 2010). The objective is to compare the creative tension of the students, acting as project managers, of their university career. From surveys, groups of students have been evaluated using fuzzy logic in order to know the current situation of their competences. Students can know their strengths and weaknesses thanks to the tool and in also the way to manage their studies better.
As a summary it is shown that tolerance to stress and languages are the competences with the greatest difficulties. The study shows the inability to evaluate some competences through the classical evaluation methodology. This application can be useful to the student allowing him to develop strategies to face his studies successfully, as well as to the centres when designing their study programs.
Keywords
competences, Engineering, Creative tension, Project managementDownloads
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