A longitudinal study of the relations between workload, grades and student ratings in a first year engineering course

• Autores: Runar Unnthorsson, Gudmundur V. Oddsson
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. 6 (Parte A), 2015, págs. 1458-1467
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents a study of the relations between workload as measured by the lecturer, student grades on a final test andstudent satisfaction as measured in a course survey in a first year engineering course. The study covers 10 years, from 2004 to 2014,and grades/scores from 827 students. During this time the lectures were given by the same lecturer using the same textbook and thestudy only reports on the exam part of the course. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the general assumption of‘more is better’ is valid for the relation between workload and the final results, i.e., grades and satisfaction. The workload wasestimated by measuring the time it took the lecturer to solve the homework assignments and the student satisfaction was estimatedby using results from annual student ratings made each year. The grades used were from the final exams only, not the final coursegrade. The results reveal that there are no relations between the workload, final exam grade and satisfaction, when compared twoby two (workload vs. grade, workload vs. satisfaction and grade vs. satisfaction).