A methodology which facilitated the evaluation of learning in a mass university course for basic calculus

dc.creator	Patricia Villalonga de García
dc.creator	Leonor Colombo de Cudmani
dc.date	2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:07Z
dc.identifier	1518-8795
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/dc94b5cd4de046a2b1a47bd01cc0a4c0
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14981
dc.description	The aim of the present work is to introduce the methodology used to carry out a diagnostic of the system of evaluation in learning for Mathematics I (subject of the first year in the Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia of the Universidad Nacional of Tucumán in Argentina) This diagnostic was based on a model of alternative evaluation of learning, designed on the basis of criteria resulting from constructivist pedagogical currents and on the basis of methodological principles for the qualitative and quantitative paradigms in socio- educational research. The criteria stated in this model led to the formulation of the hypothesis: “the evaluation of learning in the subject is enhanced with a reductionistic and disintegrated conception of the processes of teaching and learning”. In order to contrast it, surveys were designed which were applied to students in years 2001 and 2003 and to teachers in year 2001, and a study was carried out on the items of summative evaluation of the subject based on the principles of evaluation standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The sources of information were chosen by attending to the characteristics of the context of work and the limitations which conditioned the investigation. A technique was designed to analyze the open and close questions of the surveys and to study the items of the exams. This facilitated the elaboration of a system of categories with which the diagnostic was implemented. The methodological design adopted and the sources used were adequate to reach the aims proposed in the study. Besides, they provided the means to find solid argumentations to contrast the hypotheses of work.
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.language	Spanish
dc.publisher	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID123/v10_n1_a2005.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1518-8795
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, Vol 1518-9384, Iss 1518-8795, Pp 47-61 (2005)
dc.subject	methodology
dc.subject	evaluation of learning
dc.subject	mass courses
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Science (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science General
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Science General
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Science (General)
dc.subject	Q1-390
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.title	A methodology which facilitated the evaluation of learning in a mass university course for basic calculus
dc.type	article