El portafolios como herramienta facilitadora del aprendizaje en la asignatura “procedimientos generales de intervención en fisioterapia ii”

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INTRODUCTION: The portfolio is a method of teaching, learning and evaluation. It is useful in an educationalprogram from the constructivist approach. Its main objective is that students learn to find, correlate and analyzeinformation to strengthen and complement the classroom sessions.METHODS: In order to assess its usefulness, advantages and disadvantages in the course "General Procedures inPhysiotherapy II” (PGIF II) we carried out a closed survey with students.The development of the portfolio represents a volume of 0.5 ECTS credits and the mark is 20% of the total coursemarks.RESULTS: The survey was answered by 74 of the 100 students enrolled. The activities that scored highest marking(10 points, mean ± standard deviation) were notes supplementation (8.92 ± 1.55) and the development of case studies(7.81 ± 1.60). 83.8% of the students felt that the portfolio had helped to supplement the theoretical concepts, 67.5%replied that it had enhanced their critical and reflective thinking, 93.2% saw it´s a learning facilitator tool, 33,1% statedthey felt unsacure during the performance. Only 29.8% of students considered it an excessive waste of time.CONCLUSION: The portfolio is considered by students as a teaching-learning method useful for promoting self-study,completing the information obtained in the classroom and facilitating learning of the course "PGIF II”.