DETECTION AND SOLUTION OF SPECIFIC ACADEMIC NEEDS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

A high percentage of incoming students who access to the Faculty of Pharmacy feature serious deficiencies in their academic training, especially in some basic subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry that hinder the normal development of other subjects based on the concepts supplied by these knowledge areas, taught by the departments of: Statistics and Operative Research, Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. This new teaching innovation project aims to detect specific academic needs of students through online learning platforms and surveys such as Kahoot, LimeSurvey or PRADO2. To answer to these specific questionnaires, the students will be able to use mobile or portable devices with internet access. In this way, the aim is to evaluate the knowledge in each subject in a personalized way. Then, taking into account the results obtained, the students will be scheduled to several sessions of specific extracurricular academic support in basic subjects during the first weeks of each semester. Academic monitoring of the results obtained by the students participating in the project will be carried out and the degree of satisfaction of the project will be assessed through surveys of both the students and the professors (participant and non-participant in the project).