A new adaptive teaching method for engineering school

There are no teaching methods that are inherentlyadaptive, i.e. able to amend the systematic relationshipbetween student and teacher during the training. To followthe principles of adaptation it would be necessary that therelationship would be controlled by certain criteria ofperformance. The suggested method chooses as a criterion ofperformance of student-teacher relationship the student'sknowledge level. Measuring the level of knowledge isachieved in relation to an engineering application, a patent,and the teacher comes over using his deliveries in order tocorrect the ignorance proved. Effects of the method relate toreduce the unnecessary effort of the teacher and to orient hiswork towards effective teaching required in relation to thegiven knowledge of each student

ECTS in Romania – a regulated counterexample

Abstract Building a grading system compatible of a uniform but performing university structure of the European Community was a good time subject of analysis, competition and criticism. Far for being abandoned, the idea must recur by means of individual initiatives but also by systematic applications. The present work resumes the principles of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) grading in the conditions when these became in Romania the subject of a law. Further the principles are analyzed, also as the practical experiments and the baleful consequences of an obtuse and profound limitative law which restricts the progress and the university initiative. The analysis manner is a comparative one, emphasizing the close but also the lasting time consequences.</jats:p