Comparing Novel and Stable Lecturers' Point of View when they use University Students Working Groups in Their Classrooms

摘要

One of the purposes of the Bologna process is to establish quality assurance standards in the European higher education area throughout Europe. It is important to train university lecturers in order to achieve this goal. Many educational methodologies could be applied in the university classrooms. One of the teaching methods that is being increased in the university is the workgroup methodology. Our research tries to identify which differences exist between novel and stable lecturers when they use working groups in their educational methodologies. In this work we are going to show if the grade of use of the workgroup technique is different according the status of the lecturer (novel lecturers vs. stable lecturers) and we will discuss all results obtained in our research for all basic techniques of working groups. We will also compare their problems and goals when they are using these techniques. In our final discussion, we will show that the use of working group techniques doesn't seem to be affected by the stability of the lecturers or their age in the university, in opposition to what many people think, so it is not needed different training for novel than for stable university lecturers.