Two-tier assessment based on collaboration and competition to enhance engineering students’motivation
- J.C. Cuevas-Martínez
- A. Triviño-Cabrera
- M.D. Molina-González
- A. J. Yuste
ISSN: 0949-149X
Año de publicación: 2016
Volumen: 32
Número: 5
Páginas: 1859-1866
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: The International journal of engineering education
Resumen
This paper reports the results of a two-year experiment in which competitiveness and collaboration were employed tosupport university students in their learning process, with the intention of simultaneously improving their motivation,teamwork, initiative and resolution. The main novelty of the designed framework is that it is composed of two tiers: Globalcompetition in all subject activities is complemented by short-term competition associated with the lab sessions. The short-term competition favors students’ ongoing work and engagement, whereas the global competition can help them balancetheir workload. A total of 167 students of engineering participated in this study. The results show that the approach wasbeneficial to the students.