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Innovative evaluation by projects for course with mixed computer science degrees

Abstract:

This paper explains the evaluation method applied to a specific capstone course, called ‘‘Ubiquitous computing’’, taught in different Computer Science Degrees of the University of Alcalá (Spain). Along the previous editions of the course several issues have been discovered, which are intended to be solved with the proposed method that was used as evaluation system of the subject in year 2016–2017. The issues are related to the number of students of each degree that compose the group each year, the contents’ deviation, the low marks obtained in previous years, the methodological mismatch in relation with other subjects and the bad alignment of the evaluation method used before. With the idea of obtaining better marks, a closer experience to the real situation in software companies and higher satisfaction level of the students, the learning experience proposed implies teamwork, a project-based learning perspective and a balanced use of the technologies. Taking the results obtained through its implantation along the last academic year, it can be concluded that the evaluation method shown in this document enhances the learning process and the contents are closer to the course initial conception, and students got more involved and obtained better results.