A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PEER FEEDBACK IN THE ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS ON STUDENTS OF ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 arrived by surprise, and in a very short time, it has changed social habits. The educational environment has not been immune to these changes, and in a short time, it has had to modify its training strategy. A generalized strategy has been distance training through the Internet. However, in many cases, the classroom was moved to a digital platform without considering its effectiveness. One of the links of the training is the assessment. A scheme of formative evaluation in line with distance education is the co-evaluation by peers. These schemes allow feedbacking the processes from results, at the same time that habits are modified, and the motivation is stimulated. Aims: This study has the purpose of evaluating the effects of the evaluation by peers as an active strategy in the transitory model of distance education of undergraduate students in the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The objective is to determine its utility and effects in forming the students in two academic spaces. Methods: These courses are taught in the last semesters of the Technology in Electricity program. The study addresses a quasi-experimental scheme under which two equivalent populations are taken. The first group comprises 31 students from the first semester of 2020, who operated as a control group, and a second group is made up of 34 students from the second semester of 2020 who formed the peer feedback group. As an instrument, the study used classic written tests. Results and Discussion: The data was collected through surveys and were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The conclusions of the study establish that the technique of peer evaluation is useful for strengthening some aspects of the training process, particularly for consolidation of concepts and motivation towards autonomous study. Conclusions: The comparative results indicate that the strategy has a positive impact in terms of academic performance, but also shows some level of overload in students, a topic not explored, and that raises the need for further study