Abstract:

Due to the situation caused by the current pandemic generated by the Covid-19 disease, universities have had to rapidly adapt their teaching. In particular, due to the lock down that took place in Spain during 2020 and the consequent closure of universities from March 2020 until the end of the academic year, teachers had to abruptly confront the online model, not only for the teaching classes but also for the evaluation of the different subjects.

In this way, the purpose of this work is to analyse the results obtained by students after the online evaluation and compare them with the results obtained other years using the standard in person evaluation. Additionally, various online evaluation approaches are proposed for different degrees of the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (UV). In particular, this work was carried out in two subjects of the Chemical Engineering Degree: Process and Product Engineering II and Theory and Design of Machines and Process Equipment and in one subject of the Industrial Electronic Engineering Degree: Environment and Sustainability. The chosen subjects are very different and the proposed evaluations are different too. Process and Product Engineering II is a subject that is focused on theoretical engineering aspects that students course during the first term of the fourth course of the degree and, therefore, the online assessment should be more focused on the development of theoretical concepts. Theory and Design of Machines and Process Equipment is a practical subject which is coursed during the first term of the third course of the Chemical Engineering Degree. In this case, the online evaluation should be mainly based on the resolution of problems. Finally, for Environment and Sustainability which has both theoretical and problem contents a combined evaluation between problem resolution and theoretical concepts development is proposed. In all cases, the different evaluation activities were performed through Aula Virtual, which is the online UV platform based on Moodle. Interestingly, the activities proposed in this work could be extrapolated and used in different online platforms. In general, results obtained by students improve in comparison to previous years and this is discussed and analysed in detail in the study.

Acknowledgement:
The authors acknowledge the Vice-Principal for Employment and Training Services for the project UV-SFPIE_PID20-1351761.

Keywords:

Online evaluation, engineering, Covid 19, innovation.