In many institutions, the evaluation of faculty performance in graduate programs is carried out using instruments designed for undergraduate programs or with an exclusive focus on research, which limits the effectiveness and objectivity of the evaluation in the classroom. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a specific instrument to assess teaching in the graduate context, one that facilitates effective feedback and promotes continuous improvement in the teaching-learning process. This work presents the development of a methodology based on the Design Science Research model and an agile approach using Scrum, applied to create a teaching evaluation instrument for graduate programs. The methodological process was structured in two phases: the first phase involved an analysis of the state of the art, while the second adopted an iterative approach in three stages. During each sprint, the instrument was refined through feedback from students, faculty, and administration, allowing for continuous improvement and adaptation to the needs of the context. The applied methodology resulted in an effective tool, adapted to the academic environment, that significantly contributes to the improvement of educational management and teaching quality in graduate-level programs.
The aim of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create an application that teaches programing to college students. The instructional design model and incremental software development model are used as a base. The instructional design model is a general methodology for the development of educational materials. This methodology is composed by 5 phases: Analysis Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation, commonly refereed as ADDIE. We use the software incremental methodology, this software methodology divide software development into increments, in each increment, a functional software is developed and can be tested, for each increment will use the 5 phases of instructional design presented before.
The software teaches programming to college students, detecting the students learning style and providing a personalized experience, we use the visual programming paradigm. This application is developed in a web environment, using as tool set: HTML, Javascript, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
At the end of this work we have realized that the incremental software development methodology and the incremental development model is a good combination in the development of educational software focused on the web.