The Bologna educational reform taking place across Europe has reached Spain and Portugal. It places the student as the center of the entire process of teaching and learning, recognizing two main types of learning: presential and non-presential. With this in mind, the assessment methods need to be redefined and adapted to this new reality, where tutoring and learning must be integrated in the assessment process. This study takes place in two Introductory Statistics courses, one located in Vigo (Spain) and one in Guimarães (Portugal) and the results show an improvement in students' grades and also allow a more solid learning process achieved by the continuous nature of the method. Having the material virtual in Learning Management Systems (LMS) simplifies the work of the teacher and encourages the students to develop new study habits necessary for their success within the new reality of the Bologna reforms.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education