Evaluating placements
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The document discusses evaluating placements from the VALS project. It notes that 237 placement proposals were received in the first round involving 12 universities and 64 companies, with 7 active projects. The second round had 291 proposals from 13 universities and 67 companies, with 10 active projects. In total, there were 17 active projects from over 300 proposals involving 13 universities and 67 companies/foundations. Evaluations will be conducted based on student, supervisor and mentor questionnaires and interviews to analyze the placements and assess the projects.
Evaluating placements
- 1. Evaluating placements VALS Meeting, Bolton, UK September 2nd, 2015 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA Juan Cruz-Benito juancb@usal.es / @_juancb GRIAL Research Group University of Salamanca
- 2. Outline • Placements status • Evaluating placements • Placements assessment by participants • Further tasks 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 3. Semester of Code. 1st round • Some participation data – 12 universities – 64 companies – 237 placement proposals – 12 proposals submitted by students, 7 active projects • 4 open • 1 preselected • 7 active (accepted) 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 4. Semester of Code. 2nd round • Some participation data – 13 universities – 67 companies – 291 placement proposals – 24 proposals submitted by students, 10 active projects • 1 open • 7 published • 10 accepted (active) • 2 rejected • 4 archived 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 5. Semester of Code: total • 13 participant universities (not all of them provide students to SoC) • 67 participant companies/foundations/projects • ~ 300 placements proposals 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 6. Semester of Code: total • 36 proposals submitted by students • 17 active projects (total placements performed) – 75 initially proposed • 5 open proposals (not confirmed by students) • 8 proposals with no final decision (7 of them with no response of the company about the proposal) 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 7. Evaluating placements • Evaluation byVALS team based on – Analysis of questionnaires filled by students previous months (students not necessarily involved later in placements) – Assessment done by students, supervisors and mentors (questionnaires available in the collaboration platform next days) – Personnel interviews with the different stakeholders involved (open interviews, USAL will provide their initial schema for performing interviews) 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 8. Placements assessment by par ticipants • Each institution will contact with the students, supervisors and mentors, providing them the questionnaires (one kind for each stakeholder) • The questionnaires will be available on Google Forms, the links for questionnaires will be posted on http://polis.grial.eu • If any partner want to have access to results (for this or other questionnaires) will request access to USAL. 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 9. Fur ther tasks • Placements should be finalized (most of them at least). Each institution will track the status of their placements • Placements must be assessed by the stakeholders involved following the questionnaires provided by USAL • The partners will analyse the placements 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
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- 12. More info • http://virtualalliances.eu/ • http://semesterofcode.com/ • http://vps.semesterofcode.com • http://vps2.semesterofcode.com • http://grial.usal.es Contact Dr. Francisco José García Peñalvo GRIAL Research Group, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Computers and Automatics Plaza de los Caídos, S/N 37008 Salamanca (España) (+34) 923294500 (ext. 1302) fgarcia@usal.es This presentation reflects only the author‘s view and that the Agency and the Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA
- 13. Evaluating placements VALS Meeting, Bolton, UK September 2nd, 2015 540054-LLP-L-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EKA Juan Cruz-Benito juancb@usal.es / @_juancb GRIAL Research Group University of Salamanca