1. Change in Gap Perception within Current Practices in Assessing Students Learning Mathematics
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Igor Kierkosz, Filomena Soares, Marina Latõnina, Ken Brown, Vlad Bocanet, Anna Cellmer, Carles Serrat, Anne Uukkivi, Gerald Kelly, M. Rosa Estela, Elena Safiulina, Ana Paula Lopes, Volodymyr Sushch, Florina Serdean, Joanna Cymerman, Chara Pantazi, Oksana Labanova, Cristina Feniser, M. Montserrat Bruguera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GRBIO - Grup de Recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SD - Sistemes Dinàmics de la UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BCN SEER - Barcelona Science and Engineering Education Research Group, and Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
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student assessment ,Gap analysis method ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,TJ807-830 ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Gap analysis ,TD194-195 ,Web-based instruction ,Renewable energy sources ,03 medical and health sciences ,Matemàtica -- Educació secundària -- Sud-àfrica ,Perception ,gap analysis method ,Pandemic ,Mathematics -- Study and teaching ,GE1-350 ,Student learning ,Ensenyament i aprenentatge::TIC's aplicades a l'educació::Ensenyament virtual (eLearning) [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,e-assessment ,Sdent assessment ,Online education ,Matemàtica -- Ensenyament ,Erasmus+ ,media_common ,Medical education ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,030504 nursing ,Educational avaluation ,mathematics ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Student assessment ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,E-assessment ,Ensenyament virtual ,online education ,Environmental sciences ,Information technology management ,Online teaching ,Avaluació educativa ,0305 other medical science ,business ,0503 education ,Mathematics ,Qualitative research - Abstract
The COVID pandemic has touched many aspects of everyone’s life. Education is one of the fields greatly affected by it, as students and teachers were forced to move online and quickly adapt to the online environment. Assessment is a crucial part of education, especially in STEM fields. A gap analysis was performed by expert groups in the frame of an Erasmus+ project looking at the practices of six European countries. Specialists teaching university-grade mathematics in seven European institutions were asked about their perception of gaps in the assessment of students both before (2019) and during (2021) the pandemic. This qualitative study looks at the difference in perception of such gaps after almost one year of online teaching. The analysis of their responses showed that some gaps were present before the pandemic, as well as others that are specific to it. Some gaps, such as the lack of IT infrastructure and the need to adapt materials to an online environment, have been exacerbated by the outbreak., This research was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, project name EngiMath, ref. no. 2018-1-EE01-KA203-047098.
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- 2021
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