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Carro Travieso, María Dolores

Garcia Alonso, Javier

Gonzalez Cano, Javier

Villamide Díaz, María Jesús

Rabe, Uwe

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Ein Modell zur Analyse der betriebswirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen alternativer Investitions- und Gebuehrenpolitiken fuer neue Telekommunikationsdienste

At the University specific  competences  and  skills  have  been  traditionally  evaluated,  whereas  generic skills  (such  as  writing  and  speaking  competences)  were  used  to  refine  the  rating.  Promote  or encourage and subsequently assess generic skills is a challenge driven by the Bologna plan. The aim of this study was to analyse the efficiency of a methodology designed to encourage self

-learning and lifelong learning skills. A compulsory course of Livestock Production and Environment belonging to the 

Agro- Environmental  Engineering  Degree  with 36 students  enrolled  was  taken  for  this  study.  After a 

presentation and some discussion with the students about

the lifelong learning skills in the classroom, some  documents  specially  elaborated  for  this  course on "How  to  understand  and  explain  tables and figures of scientific data", "Virtual farm management", "Making field works" were made available at the Moodle  platform. Different  learning  activities, both in the classroom and  on-line, were carried out based  on  this  material.

Afterwards,  generic  competences  and  skills  were  assessed  through  three questions in the partial exams, and the efficiency and success rates (% of students passing 

of those registered  or  presented)  and  average scores 

were  analysed.  In  addition,  the  effect  of students’ 

motivation level (3 categories calculated from the % of learning activities performed in the course;  94, 81 or 60%, on average for each category) on the assessment of the activities and questions related to lifelong learning 

skills was also analysed. The average efficiency and success rates of understanding and  explaining  scientific  data  were  52  and  56%,  respectively,  these  values  being  lower  than  those obtained for specific skills of the course (80.5 and 93.5%, respectively). However, in the 

evaluation of the self-learning ability (v irtual  farm  management)  and  the  ability  to  think  about  their  own  learning process, the efficiency and success rates (82 and 87%, respectively) was comparable to those of the 

specific competences. The group with low motivation level impaired (P<0.01) the scores obtained in 3 of 4 activities related to understanding and explaining scientific data, showing scores about 50 to 67% of  those  of the group  with  high  motivation  level. Finally, students completed  a  survey on their perceptions on how well this course improved their lifelong learning skills. Survey responses indicated that  they  seemed  to  be  aware  of  the  importance  of  lifelong  learning  (84%).  Most  of  them  (87%) considered  themselves  able  of  preparing  a  complex  topic  on  livestock  production  and  71%  knew 

where  to  find  the required information.  Their  opinion  about  generic  competencies  linked  to  livestock 

production  was  very  positive,  as  they  believed  that  the  course  had  increased  their  ability  to  observe 

critically  livestock  facilities  (97%),  to  visualize  the  effects  of  animal  production  on  the  environment 

(94%),   and   to   quantify   agro-livestock   resources   and   emissions   (90%).   However,   when   the competences were not linked to the course topics the evaluation was lower (61 to 80%)

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Ein Modell zur Analyse der betriebswirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen alternativer Investitions- und Gebuehrenpolitiken fuer neue Telekommunikationsdienste

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