The Participation of the University Student in his Evaluation: A Collaborative Work Teaching Experience

Abstract

During the academic years 2016-17 and 2017-18, an experience based on collaborative work has been carried out by the students and this activity has been evaluated by themselves. It has been tried to involve the student in his evaluation process because his work has been valued by his classmates. The student makes an individual evaluation of the work presented and defended in class by his classmates. This presented work deals with one of the eight lessons of the compulsory subject “Construction Equipment, Installation and Auxiliary Resources” of the third year of the Degree in Technical Architecture at the University of Alicante. The evaluated task has been a poster about the chosen topic. This poster has been explained by the students in class. As soon has the activity finished, a brief questionnaire must be answered. Each student must valued the work that their classmates have just presented. This questionnaire is designed by the teachers and unknown by the students. During this experience the student becomes aware of their own progress and perhaps the most important, he or she knows how their progress is valued by the rest of their classmates. The poster allowed them to work as a team, develop the ability to speak in public, synthesize constructive techniques and adopt a critical attitude to real situations related with the construction sector.