THE ROLE OF THE STUDENT'S WORK GUIDE IN A CONTEXT OF TEAMWORK AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

In a first year physics course of the School of Design Engineering of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), a student's work-guide is being used in a methodological context of teamwork, peer assessment and effective communication (both written and oral). This work-guide consists of several documents: recommendations to improve the effective communication, both for written documents and for the preparation of oral presentations and digital files to support them, as well as rubrics for assessment. The main objective of this paper has been to evaluate the use that students do of the guide and the perception that they have on its usefulness, in the educational above mentioned context. To do that, students have been asked to answer an anonymous survey and several interviews have been performed. The results derived from the interviews and from the questionnaire are shown in this communication. One of the conclusions to be emphasized is that students do a use of the guide which is under the awaited and desirably. The utilization of the guide increases when using the flip teaching methodology in the laboratory sessions. The student's guide is positively appreciated but it is unknown to most students. It is therefore necessary to emphasize the dissemination of the guide among the students for the guide to become more popular, and to enhance the students to use it. In order to keep the process of constant improvement of the guide, including screencast videos has obtained a very positive evaluation.