Project-Based Learning for Assessing a Course on Computer Programming
Pedro Juan Roig, Salvador Alcaraz, Katja Gilly, Cristina Bernad, Carlos Juiz · International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education · 2024
Project-Based Learning is a teaching method within the active learning paradigm where students are faced with complex problems in order for them to acquire the appropriate conceptual, procedural, and attitudinal competences.In this paper, we present the outcome of a group activity aimed at deploy a scenario made of a combination of logic gates coded in the Java programming language.Afterwards, a special session was set up in order for each group to make a pitch presentation so as to display what they did and how they did it.Each of those presentations was in turn assessed by all students with a specific questionnaire, whereas the level of engagement of the students while carrying on that activity was measured by means of a further construct.The results obtained showed an increase of academic performance of 11% and a increase of success rate of 10%, along with a high level of engagement.