Web-Based System for the Self-Evaluation of the Calculations of Students Applied to Education in Surveying Engineering and Photogrammetry
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 139, Issue 3
Abstract
In this paper, a Web-based system oriented toward students of surveying engineering and photogrammetry is presented. This application allows student self-evaluation of the calculations and problems involved in practical work. Students can evaluate their calculations before the final evaluation, minimizing the usual mistakes, primarily those of calculation errors. The evaluation of this system is based on the numbers and types of access to the system; the results of a satisfaction survey; and, primarily, a test of the proposed learning methodology. These results have demonstrated the viability of the tool developed in this project with regard to achieving the main objective, which consists of the students’ self-evaluation of their calculations and assimilation of the causes of their mistakes. The system is therefore shown to reinforce and stimulate autonomous learning.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to acknowledge the collaboration of the Departamento de Ingeniería Cartográfica, Geodésica y Fotogrametría, and the Vicerrectorado de Ordenación Académica, Innovación Docente y Profesorado of the University of Jaén, which has funded the projects PID39B (2007), PID55B (2008–2010), and PID661012 (2010–2012). We also wish to acknowledge the collaboration of the students who have participated in the evaluation of this project.
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 139 • Issue 3 • July 2013
Pages: 256 - 264
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: May 4, 2012
Accepted: Nov 6, 2012
Published online: Nov 8, 2012
Discussion open until: Apr 8, 2013
Published in print: Jul 1, 2013
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