COMPARISON OF TOOLS TO EVALUATE THE QUALITY OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING

The evaluation of the quality of teaching is a challenging task since, apart from objective learning results, it should takes into account the opinion of the students, and it is not easy to find a continued and easy way to know it throughout the course. Likewise, it is also difficult to work on, and particularly assess, the basic and general competences. The educational innovation project PIE17-021 funded by the Universidad de Malaga (UMA) is focused on the design and comparison of tools to evaluate the quality of university teaching. This study also includes assessment of basic and general competences of undergraduate students of the School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSIT). The developed tools will be evaluated with the students enrolled in the different degrees of the ETSIT. With these goals, the main activities of this project are: Designing of tools to evaluate the quality of the university teaching and the perception that students have about how basic and general competences are developed. Two types of tools have been designed: Classical evaluation tools, based on paper systems (evaluation surveys, notebooks, voting by show of hands, etc.) Tools based on computer applications (Virtual Campus, Mobile applications, web pages, etc.) Comparison of the validity and effectiveness of the designed tools by applying them in different subjects. Organizing the sixth edition of the educational activity named "Technological Challenge". The slogan of this edition has been "How to evaluate the quality of the university teaching?". This challenge has been open to all students with the only condition to be enrolled in a course at the Universidad de Malaga. After two years, this paper describes the designed tools, the comparative results and the interests of teachers and student in this project. The results show that the students are very satisfied with the idea of assessing the quality of teaching, but even so, unfortunately, they do not take an active role proposing and/or discussing new ideas.