A model to estimate the distribution of the student's work load from the joint schedule
- Julián F. Conesa Pastor
- M. Socorro García Cascales
- Antonio García Martín
- Juan Pedro Solano Fernández
Editorial: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Any de publicació: 2020
Tipus: Aportació congrés
Resum
An unevenly distributed workload along a semester is one of the crucial factors that affect the academic performance of university students [1]. Excess or unevenly distributed workloads may significantly harm the academic results and, importantly, determine the learning approach adopted by the students [2][3] [4]. The horizontal coordination aims at ensuring a rational workload distribution along an academic semester. To achieve this, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) uses ‘Joint Chronogram’, where the activities planned by the faculty for the different courses in a given group and semester are put together. Although this type of chronogram allows for detecting workload peaks, which occur when several singular activities are scheduled in the same period, it does not retrieve information on the way that the student’s workload is distributed,which depends on the period of time when the tasks are accomplished.