Computer adaptive testing and the networked model of curriculum in an engineering education learning system (MAPI-CAT): The case of fourier analysis in Mexico

Computer Adaptive testing and Networked Model of Curriculum are areas of Engineering Education with potential to contribute to the acquisition of complex and abstract topics such as Fourier Analysis. In the world, the United States and Serbia have invested in systems that have taken advantage of only one of each. Mexico has implemented mechanisms of engineering evaluation that afford opportunities for investing in a system of this kind. The long term contributions of such system involve the creation of a culture more centered on design, a well understood challenge in Mexican and world-wide engineering. The short term contributions involve the creation of a culture of learning and assessment more attuned with international advances in engineering education. This paper focuses on the description of the MAPI-CAT and the analysis of its short term contributions.