Uso do PeerWise como ferramenta pedagógica nas disciplinas de solos da Engenharia Civil

Abstract

PeerWise is an online tool that allows students to create, explain and submit their own multiple-choice questions and share them with their classmates by forming a question pool. The aim of this study is to evaluate the involvement of students in the Foundations and Soil Mechanics disciplines of the civil engineering course with the PeerWise tool. The implementation of PeerWise in the disciplines took place in an optional and pre-established way on the first day of class in both disciplines. To this end, students were required to perform a minimum number of activities on PeerWise weekly throughout the semester and to complete an online questionnaire about their personal experience with the tool at the end of the courses. At the end of the semester it was found that the tool fulfilled the purpose of being an alternative for students to exercise the knowledge acquired in the classroom, being used more frequently on the days before the partial assessments.