Autoevaluación, co-evaluación y estudio empírico frente a técnicas de evaluación tradicionales en la asignatura de Sistemas Operativos

Abstract

In this paper, we present a protocol developed as part of some educational innovation initiatives in Operat- ing Systems subject. The protocol’s goal is incorpo- rating self-evaluation as a formative evaluation mechanism in Operating Systems that fosters in university students of computer science the skills of critical analysis, detection of possible improvements and awareness of their own learning process, all of them of special relevance in the design and imple- mentation of functionalities of Operating Systems. For that purpose, a self-evaluation and co-evaluation protocol was designed for the practical exercises corresponding to three thematic areas in Operating Systems: file systems, memory management, and process management and scheduling. In order to facilitate the coexistence of both evaluation systems, the protocol was applied to part of the students, maintaining the traditional evaluation by the teaching staff in parallel with all the students. Subsequently, an empirical study of precision in self-evaluation and co- evaluation of the students was carried out, analyzing the correlation with the traditional evaluation, and the implications of the designed protocol in the final grades obtained. The results allow not only to initially evaluate the designed protocol, but also to know the starting point in self-evaluation and co-evaluation capacities of the students in Operating Systems areas.