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- Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma web para apoio à avaliação contínua de estudantesPublication . Machado, Miguel Bruno; Metrôlho, José Carlos Meireles Monteiro; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo da Silva GarciaO trabalho descrito neste relatório consiste numa aplicação web desenvolvida para facilitar a um professor a tarefa de obter feedback sobre o estado de conhecimento adquirido, pelos estudantes, relativamente a determinada informação lecionada e verificar a sua evolução ao longo do tempo. A informação é obtida através de questionários rápidos que o professor pode preparar e facultar aos alunos partilhando um código QR, ou por email. Os alunos por sua vez respondem a esse questionário, gerando um gráfico e métricas sobre quais as questões mais acertadas. Os questionários podem ser lançados múltiplas vezes de forma a permitir ao professor contrastar se a informação lecionada foi assimilada. Esta aplicação visa ser usada em contexto de aula, necessitando para a sua utilização de um computador ou smartphone. Na fase final do projeto, e ainda no decorrer de alguns desenvolvimentos, a aplicação desenvolvida foi usada por dois docentes da Escola Superior de Tecnologia tendo sido feitos testes em contexto real e obtido feedback sobre a sua utilização. O resultado obtido permite concluir ser uma ferramenta que ajuda um professor a conhecer melhor em determinado momento do período letivo o estado de conhecimento da sua turma relativamente aos conteúdos lecionados.
- A tool for monitoring students learning progressPublication . Machado, Miguel Bruno; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Ribeiro, Fernando ReinaldoIn higher education, as in other levels of education, there are different teaching strategies (expository with interaction, use of technological resources, problem-solving, project-based, game-based, etc.) in which success always depends on the involvement of students, the commitment of teachers, and much of the interaction between them in the task of contributing together so that the teaching-learning process is as fruitful as possible for the student. This task is not always easy for the teacher, because they have to divide the teaching activity with other tasks, because the number of students in charge is large, because each student has different characteristics and competences, etc. Correctly monitoring the different learning speeds of each student requires frequent collection of appropriate information, metrics and respective analysis. In this context, continuous assessment is a good approach, but it requires tools that, without consuming too much useful class time, allow the teacher to collect information about the perception and retention of knowledge by the students, and through the analysis of this information, allows them to adapt the strategies in order to reinforce the matters in which there are more difficulties or to increase the teaching pace in the case of matters already assimilated. It is also important that the collection of this information during class is done in a non-intrusive and in a motivating way, exploring the means currently available to students, namely in terms of technology. With the tool presented in this paper, the teacher has at their disposal the means to check if at a given moment their students are assimilating the material taught, what percentage of them are having learning difficulties, if in a period of time they have evolved in terms of knowledge acquired, if students still remember what they have learned since a past period, etc. In this way, the syllabus planning and execution of a given subject can be improved in terms of focus and time slots for explanation of certain topics, reinforcement of exercises, evaluation emphasis, etc. With this tool, it is possible to simplify the sampling of the learning progress, and thus adopt strategies that bring gains in agility to the teaching-learning process.