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Ítem CORRELATION BETWEEN PROCEDURAL AND CONCEPTUAL TEST IN A STATICS COURSE(IEEE, 2018-01-01) Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Estudios en Mantenimiento (GEMI)Due to poor performance in Statics at Eafit University, since 2012 the Mechanical Engineering department implemented a virtual tool for the training and assessment of Statics course. Although the implementation led to better performance in the Statics course, students were still showing lack of comprehension of the basic concepts underlying the subject. The department applied a Concept Inventory test to 195 students from the second semester of 2017 in order to check if there was a correlation between the grades obtained in the class examinations and the performance in a conceptual test of Statics. The Concept Inventory was applied one week before the final examination and it was held inside the University facilities. The students were monitored all the time. For the course examinations were taken only three out of the four partial exams, they were computed and then compared to the results of the concept inventory. The results show that almost all the students with the highest grades in the class performed above the mean in the Concept Inventory. The overall mean for the conceptual test was 9.27 and the standard deviation was 5.28. The course grades were discriminated by career and an Analysis of Variance was conducted to determine if there were significant differences among the groups. A correlation analysis suggests that there is not a strong correlation between the course grades and the concept inventory results. One possible explanation for this can be due to the fact that the regular teaching method for these kind of basic courses in engineering in the University is merely procedural and problem-solving oriented, conceptual approaches are often neglected in both teaching and assessment.Ítem CORRELATION BETWEEN PROCEDURAL AND CONCEPTUAL TEST IN A STATICS COURSE(IEEE, 2018-01-01) Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Mecatrónica y Diseño de MáquinasDue to poor performance in Statics at Eafit University, since 2012 the Mechanical Engineering department implemented a virtual tool for the training and assessment of Statics course. Although the implementation led to better performance in the Statics course, students were still showing lack of comprehension of the basic concepts underlying the subject. The department applied a Concept Inventory test to 195 students from the second semester of 2017 in order to check if there was a correlation between the grades obtained in the class examinations and the performance in a conceptual test of Statics. The Concept Inventory was applied one week before the final examination and it was held inside the University facilities. The students were monitored all the time. For the course examinations were taken only three out of the four partial exams, they were computed and then compared to the results of the concept inventory. The results show that almost all the students with the highest grades in the class performed above the mean in the Concept Inventory. The overall mean for the conceptual test was 9.27 and the standard deviation was 5.28. The course grades were discriminated by career and an Analysis of Variance was conducted to determine if there were significant differences among the groups. A correlation analysis suggests that there is not a strong correlation between the course grades and the concept inventory results. One possible explanation for this can be due to the fact that the regular teaching method for these kind of basic courses in engineering in the University is merely procedural and problem-solving oriented, conceptual approaches are often neglected in both teaching and assessment.Ítem DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC PLOTTER FOR GENERATING EXERCISES FOR STATICS COURSE IN ENGINEERING(IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION A& DEVELOPMENT, 2016-01-01) Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Arenas Berrio, Julian; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Estudios en Mantenimiento (GEMI)In the virtual platform for Statics course of Engineering School at EAFIT University it was implemented an automatic plotter for generating exercises to study truss type structures and beams in civil, mechanical and production engineering. Through graphics changes, range of variables and requested questions, the student is provided with different exercises each time that they log in to the platform, achieving the personalization in the learning and evaluation process. The plotters for the structures are developed in JAVA language, and the questions generated are converted into a compatible format with the management learning system MOODLE. Since 2012, the engineering students' population who have enrolled the Statics course is 1909 and all of them have solved exercises generated with automatic plotters. From the design of an automatic generator an unlimited questions bank is obtained to implement in the virtual platform, it allows to get security when applying evaluation tests due to the fact that each person solves a different question. The present study shows the design and programming methodology used to make plotters so it can be extended to others virtual environments in basic sciences. Future works consists in making automatic generators that allow to define difficulty levels to guide the students in a progressive study in the course topics.Ítem DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC PLOTTER FOR GENERATING EXERCISES FOR STATICS COURSE IN ENGINEERING(IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION A& DEVELOPMENT, 2016-01-01) Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Arenas Berrio, Julian; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Arenas Berrio, Julian; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Mecatrónica y Diseño de MáquinasIn the virtual platform for Statics course of Engineering School at EAFIT University it was implemented an automatic plotter for generating exercises to study truss type structures and beams in civil, mechanical and production engineering. Through graphics changes, range of variables and requested questions, the student is provided with different exercises each time that they log in to the platform, achieving the personalization in the learning and evaluation process. The plotters for the structures are developed in JAVA language, and the questions generated are converted into a compatible format with the management learning system MOODLE. Since 2012, the engineering students' population who have enrolled the Statics course is 1909 and all of them have solved exercises generated with automatic plotters. From the design of an automatic generator an unlimited questions bank is obtained to implement in the virtual platform, it allows to get security when applying evaluation tests due to the fact that each person solves a different question. The present study shows the design and programming methodology used to make plotters so it can be extended to others virtual environments in basic sciences. Future works consists in making automatic generators that allow to define difficulty levels to guide the students in a progressive study in the course topics.Ítem Implementación de un programa para el análisis de vibraciones libres en ejes, por medio de elementos finitos, para el sistema Vibrafin(Universidad EAFIT, 2003) Castañeda Heredia, Leonel; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Zuluaga Giraldo, Claudia Patricia; Builes Moreno, Esteban; Rueda Muñoz, Edgar; Universidad EAFIT; Universidad de CranfieldÍtem Improving Student Results in a Statics Course using a Computer-based Training and Assessment System(IEEE, 2013-01-01) Zapata Rivera, Luis Felipe; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Barbosa Perez, Jaime L.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Estudios en Mantenimiento (GEMI)One of the main causes of desertion in engineering programs is the poor student academic performance in basic courses. One of these courses is Statics, which is taught at the undergraduate level. Between 2009 and 2011 about 30% of students did not get a satisfactory grade to pass the course and a high percentage of these students deserted from their engineering program at EAFIT University. The evolution of computer systems and the Internet progress have enabled educators to develop software to support teaching and learning processes. For instance, educational software like E-learning platforms now allow teachers and students to interact through collaborative and friendly environments that can result in improvement on student learning outcomes and therefore improvement in their final results. Various learning tools based on problem-based learning approaches have been developed for the Statics area. These systems usually pose problems for students to solve; however, the problems usually used to evaluate and certify student knowledge are different from those used by the students during their training process. This is aimed at focusing students' attention to the use of analytical skills instead of memorizing processes. This paper describes the results of using a computer system to support training and assessment processes to convey concepts related to a Statics course using an existing open source tool and implementing a dynamic assessment generation scheme (i.e., generation of multiple versions of the same problem using algorithms with variables). This system has been used in the Statics courses during two academic periods in 2012 involving the participation of 400 students. The results of this experiment are compared with performance results of students from previous years who used traditional practice and assessment methods such as solving tasks in conventional paper and pencil tests. Results have had a positive impact in student grades and retention.Ítem Items' difficulty level determination based on a Statics test with parameters variation(IEEE, 2014-01-01) Restrepo Cadavid, Andres; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Barbosa Perez, Jaime L.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Estudios en Mantenimiento (GEMI)Looking for the improvement of the students' learning, the engineering school of EAFIT University is currently developing an evaluation and training system. In this system, each student has the option of doing ``dynamic'' exercises in a specific field of a subject. Whenever a student uses the system, an exercise is generated with different parameters and values. The mentioned system (Evaluation System) has been used in the last semesters, achieving the improvement in the students' comprehension and learning level of the Statics subject. The system under development, allows the students to train themselves in different topics of the subject and, at the same time, it allows the teachers to evaluate the learning process. Based on the fact that in the course assessments, an exam with different parameters and values is presented every time a student accesses the system, it is possible that some students present tests with different complexity levels. Therefore, the test could be considered inequitable for some people. This paper presents an analysis of the difficulty level of a test generated with the system. The test was applied to two different groups of students which are taking the course in the 2014-1 semester. The first group took a test where the items' values and parameters were not changed; and the second one, took a test where the items' values and parameters change for each student. Based on the obtained results, a statistical study is made which intends to determine the difficulty and discrimination level of each of the test items, both for the dynamics parameters test and the fixed parameters test in order to finally determine how much varies the items' difficulty due to the parameters variation. This will help to generate more equitable tests in the future for the assessment of a group of students that are taking the course.Ítem RELIABILITY OF A CONCEPT INVENTORY TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF STUDENTS IN STATICS(IEEE, 2018-01-01) Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Estudios en Mantenimiento (GEMI)Basic core courses in engineering are often taught and assessed only through procedural approaches, neglecting the conceptual grounds of the subject. In an effort to change that, a Concept Inventory test was applied to 195 students at Eafit University enrolled in Statics. All of the students took the test inside in the campus facilities and were monitored during the whole session to make sure they did not share information. The students took a Computer-Based Test of the Concept Inventory. Three new items were added to the original test of 27 questions, in order to improve the reliability of two specific groups of concepts. For the test was found a mean of 9.7 and a standard deviation of 5.28. For the overall test, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.81. The psychometric analyses show that all of the items in the test, except one, present an appropriate fit for discrimination and difficulty parameters of the test. Item 26 was deleted when performing the analysis of sub-scales reliability because presented abnormal value for difficulty. For the cluster of Equilibrium, it was seen that deleting this item resulted in an increase of the alpha from 0.2 to 0.36. For the sub-scale of Free-Body Diagram was seen a decrease in the reliability when two new items were added to it. All of the other sub-scales presented good reliability, most of them, above 0.5. The item-person map shows that the overall latent trait of students is lower than the overall test difficulty, meaning that most of the students found the test difficult. One of the conclusion to be drawn from the results is that the students subjected mainly to procedural approaches in teaching, do not perform well in conceptual tests. The results support the claim that Statics can be seen as a collection of concepts that can be clustered in independent groups for teaching.Ítem RELIABILITY OF A CONCEPT INVENTORY TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF STUDENTS IN STATICS(IEEE, 2018-01-01) Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Restrepo Garcia, Carlos Andres; Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo; Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Mecatrónica y Diseño de MáquinasBasic core courses in engineering are often taught and assessed only through procedural approaches, neglecting the conceptual grounds of the subject. In an effort to change that, a Concept Inventory test was applied to 195 students at Eafit University enrolled in Statics. All of the students took the test inside in the campus facilities and were monitored during the whole session to make sure they did not share information. The students took a Computer-Based Test of the Concept Inventory. Three new items were added to the original test of 27 questions, in order to improve the reliability of two specific groups of concepts. For the test was found a mean of 9.7 and a standard deviation of 5.28. For the overall test, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.81. The psychometric analyses show that all of the items in the test, except one, present an appropriate fit for discrimination and difficulty parameters of the test. Item 26 was deleted when performing the analysis of sub-scales reliability because presented abnormal value for difficulty. For the cluster of Equilibrium, it was seen that deleting this item resulted in an increase of the alpha from 0.2 to 0.36. For the sub-scale of Free-Body Diagram was seen a decrease in the reliability when two new items were added to it. All of the other sub-scales presented good reliability, most of them, above 0.5. The item-person map shows that the overall latent trait of students is lower than the overall test difficulty, meaning that most of the students found the test difficult. One of the conclusion to be drawn from the results is that the students subjected mainly to procedural approaches in teaching, do not perform well in conceptual tests. The results support the claim that Statics can be seen as a collection of concepts that can be clustered in independent groups for teaching.