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EXPERIENCE IN THE TEACHING OF BASIC SUBJECTS APPLIED TO AGROFORESTRY

Applied Statistics and Technical Drawing may be regarded are a basic as well as technical subject in engineering, and therefore play a central role in the agro-forestry engineer professional curriculum. With the purpose of implementing a new learning method, within the framework of European Higher Education, an experimental evaluation was organised along in the academic year 2004/05 for students at the Faculty of Forestry Engineering in the Madrid Polytechnic University. The teaching methodology goal was to improve students’ oral information searching, use of technologies and analysis and synthesis capacities, while, at the same time providing them with a basic knowledge about the subject. The results by using this method in Technical Drawing are rather significant. As the table below illustrates, the number of PASSES per year increases up to 38% if compared with the data of the previous year. Consequently there is a considerable improvement (16%) in the average mark of these students. The results by Applied Statistics are following: , the number of PASSES per year increases up to 35,8% if compared with the data of the previous year and the average mark increases up to 12,5%.