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title = "Improving the Motivation of First-Year Undergraduate Students Through Transversal Activities and Teamwork",
abstract = "Promoting an increase in motivation in first-year undergraduate students not only results in an improvement in their follow-up, performance, and therefore their satisfaction, but can also lead to a reduction in early dropout due to any situation of frustration or poor results. To confirm the initial assumption, the present research work demonstrates how the work of certain competencies in a transversal way allows the first-time student to increase empathy with the degree while improving interpersonal relationships with their peers being an aspect that significantly affects the intrinsic motivation of the student. The chapter focuses on analyzing the results of two transversal tasks carried out through a teamwork process and monitored during the first year of the Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. For the analysis, we used a mixed approach that allowed us to identify the strengths (enhanced in the new iterations) and weaknesses of the proposal on which we are already acting in subsequent replications of these types of transversal activities.",
keywords = "Educational assessment, Pedagogical innovation, Student motivation, Teamwork, Transversal competencies",
author = "David Fonseca and Silvia Necchi and Marian Alaez and Susana Romero",
note = "Funding Information: On the basis of these initial premises, a project was designed under the name “Improving social and collaborative competences of undergraduate students using active methodologies. A mixed assessment approach”. Funding for this project was approved at the 6th Call for Research Projects organized by the Aristos Campus Mundus association in 2020. The project goal is to develop educational pills based on teamwork and on communicating the ideas to be implemented, without losing sight of motivation. Thus, from the outset of their university courses, students become aware of the enormous potential of teamwork, based on synergies and key points for fostering effectiveness. The underlying idea is that teamwork must be carefully encouraged from the initial formation of groups through to communication and final assessment (Alaez et al., 2021). Funding Information: Acknowledgements This study is funded under the project “Improving social and collaborative competences of undergraduate students using active methodologies. A mixed assessment approach”, awarded at the 6th Call for Research Projects by Aristos Campus Mundus (ACM) in 2020, under ID code ACM2020_02. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-19-7431-1_2",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Educational Technology",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "9--28",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Educational Technology",
address = "Germany",
}