Open AccessAn evaluation model to reduce anxiety in university students
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Adriana D ́Ameli,
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Eleonora Mamaní,
Johana Gisel Tari,
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Publication year - 2019
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.52041/srap.19417
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , anxiety , computer science , subject (documents) , work (physics) , test (biology) , mathematics education , measure (data warehouse) , statistical analysis , psychology , medical education , applied psychology , engineering , data mining , world wide web , statistics , medicine , mechanical engineering , paleontology , mathematics , psychiatry , biology , radiology
In the last few years, students of Quantitative Analysis of the Faculty of Political Sciences, have had many difficulties in issues related to the application of statistical concepts, which led to lack of motivation and withdrawal from the subject. Considering this problem, in 2018, a new methodology was implemented to evaluate students with the objective of understanding the importance of statistics in the work practice of their career and its applications. This new assessment achieves an improvement in academic performance by having students research and analyze a database, work in groups, and prepare an oral presentation. This new appraisal replaces the written test, which used to generate high levels of anxiety, and allows students to acquire other useful knowledge, such as managing databases, working in groups, using software, etc. Students' status is analyzed through the instrument used to measure the anxiety level GTAI- A.