Rapid Feedback of Student Outcomes Using Internet Tools: An Experience on Engineering Programs

Feedback is considered a key element in the evaluation of the student, as it allows them to reaffirm their achievements and identify opportunities for improvement. However, in the case of Student Outcomes, in the context of accreditation of engineering programs, it has implied a change of approach so that many institutions have not been able to carry it out or some have opted for a manual scheme. This article presents an experience, two cases, of quick feedback using some tools of an Internet platform. The experience reaffirms that students do value and use the results received to improve their performance. The implementation of a semiautomatic scheme for the measurement of Student Outcome has allowed (i) to improve the performance of the evaluators when recording the evaluations and that the students receive the feedback in a short time; (ii) to decrease the time of measurement where the students can apply self- and co-evaluation, in addition to having feedback; and (iii) the implementation has been fast and low cost.