EVALUATION OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AT THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING OF THE “CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA AMERICANA”

In this paper are presented preliminary results obtained from the analysis of the Training Strategy for Projects at the Faculty of Engineering in the “Corporación Universitaria Americana “ in the years 2015-2016. Using a mixed approach and considering a paradigmatic level Constructivist the results of evaluations of the projects integrators students of the faculty which consist of about 199 students in the first semester of 2015, 213 students in the second semester of 2015 and 237 students in the first semester of 2016 are considered. Through the contingency table data generated by testing and chi-square dependence, an index of 11.94 for the population studied is obtained, Which allows us to conclude that the strategy has been strengthening considerably through the verification of the dependence between the ratings of the projects and the maturation level of the strategy, the factors intervening in this maturation level and future investigations in this regard are presented.

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