E- Evaluation System of Occupational Therapy internships in the context of Health Sciences Degrees
Rubén Grande, Javier Pereira, Santiago Pellit, Virginia Mato‐Abad · 2007
Abstract: The Information and Communications Technologies and specially Internet have brought new Educational tools in the service of the university, lectures, teachers and the students themselves. In the educational context, the IT let the development of E-activities such as the information exchange, opinions or experiences. For this reason, a lecturer can easily get in touch with an expert in his field, tracking a student or even meet some parents. The present work relates the process of automatizing the evaluation system of student practices in various socio-assistential centers in the context of a Degree in Occupational Therapy. The innovating character of this application allows students, tutors, and coordinators to access internship information in real time: they can consult timetables, the beginning and end of practices, changes in organization, tutors that are responsible at all times, the assignation of centers, and an e-evaluation of the previous. Thanks to the informatization of the entire process, evaluating centers, students, averages, comments, and suggestions is no longer a time-consuming and elaborate manual undertaking