Measurement of soft skills in a project of university teaching innovation
Abstract
In the three-year period 2016-2018 the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia activated a
project dedicated to Competency based learning and teaching (CBLT) aimed at identifying
through experimental methods the relation between the development of soft skills in the
university and the use of active teaching methods. Through the measurement of soft skills
(in particular problem solving and team working) at the start and at the end of the semester
for 973 students involved in a teaching experimentation in 16 courses, variances in scores between
pre-test and post-test were found and compared with the scores of the control group
(236 students). We found moderate variances for both groups, higher for the experimental
group. They are negatively correlated with pre-test scores and more evident for problem solving
skill.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in this magazine accept the following conditions:
- The authors retain the rights to their work and give the magazine the right to first publish the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution which allows others to share the work indicating the intellectual authorship and the first publication in this magazine.
- Authors may adhere to other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (eg deposit it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph), provided that the first publication took place in this magazine.
- Authors can disseminate their work online (eg in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and increase citations of the published work.
