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September 6, 2022
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Development of Procedures to Assess Problem-Solving Competence in Computing Engineering

Publicated to: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION. 60 (1): 22-28 - 2017-02-01 60(1), DOI: 10.1109/TE.2016.2582736

Authors:

Pérez, J; Vizcarro, C; García, J; Bermúdez, A; Cobos, R
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Affiliations

Tech Univ Madrid, Dept Comp Syst, Madrid 28031, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Comp Syst, Albacete 02071, Spain - Author
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Abstract

In the context of higher education, a competence may be understood as the combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a professional area. The aim of the work reported here was to design a set of procedures to assess a transferable competence, i.e., problem solving, that is basic for learning, in both academic and professional life, and crucial for engineering. The study involved a total of 71 students enrolled at three universities at two different stages of their studies. The development phases of the assessment device included an analysis of the competence and its facets, the design of the assessment task, the development of criteria to rate student performance, and the analysis of the basic psychometric properties for assessment methods in the area of education. The conclusion was drawn that the training process and the elaboration of scoring criteria are costly but necessary if objectivity in the interpretation of results is to be guaranteed. The main achievement of this project was the development of a procedure that measures learning outcomes and, more specifically, problem solving.
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Keywords

AgreementAssessment tasksDevelopment phasisDifferent stagesEducationEngineering educationEngineering education assessmentGeneric competencesLearning outcomeLearning outcome (lo) assessmentPersonnel trainingProblem solvingProfessional lifePsychometric propertiesScoring criteriaStudent performanceStudentsTransferable competences

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2017, it was in position 18/41, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Education, Scientific Disciplines. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-24:

  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 12
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 72 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/43551/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 450
  • Downloads: 495
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (PEREZ MARTINEZ, JORGE ENRIQUE) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been PEREZ MARTINEZ, JORGE ENRIQUE.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported in part by the MINECO and European Commission (FEDER funds) under Project TIN2015-66972-C5-2-R; by the Spanish National Plan of R+D under Project TIN2014-52129-R; and by the Autonomous Community of Madrid under e-Madrid Project S2013/ICE-2715.
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