Resumen de Well-being e-portfolio: a methodology to supervise the final year engineering project
Gemma Filella Guiu, Francesc Giné, Ferran Badia, Anna Soldevilla, Marga Moltó, Isabel del Arco Bravo
This paper presents a new portfolio-based methodology for supervising the Final Year Project (FYP) in Engineering studies at theEscola Polite`cnica Superior (EPS) at the Universitat de Lleida (UdL). The main aim of the portfolio methodology, or learning-folder, is to maintain the students’ motivation throughout the FYP process, keeping their stress level within advisable limits andincreasing the student–teacher interaction. Thus, the students’ well-being is improved and, as a consequence, the FYP completionrate rises. In order to achieve this goal, the proposed methodology emphasises the following aspects: (1) put in place a continuousoutcome-based assessment, (2) plan and schedule periodic face-to-face meetings and (3) motivate the students to think about theirown incentives. This methodology was implemented in a web-based tool, over the Sakai virtual campus. In order to compare ourmethodology with the traditional one, an evaluation was carried out during the 2008–09 and 2009–10 courses with a control groupof 40 students and 11 teachers. The experimental results have shown that a high percentage of students who used the portfoliofinished their FYPs within the time envisaged in the curricula plan. They also obtained higher marks in the majority of evaluatedskills and planned their leisure time better.
