FLIP-QTC: Enhancing Quality Testing and Control Knowledge on Building Materials Through the Flipped Classroom Methodology

Abstract

The preparation of professionals conducting quality control in the construction sector demands new teaching models and professional insights regarding decision-making when testing and executing building materials. This chapter presents a teaching innovation methodology based on a sequenced Flipped Classroom model, with application to the testing and control field, in which students are in the role to provide realistic experiences on different materials and techniques, exemplifying diverse real situations and simulating through decision-making the responsibility in the profession when executing the works. Under this teaching model, the students are the ones who explain and develop the control plan and test of the corresponding assigned materials to actively teach it to their classmates and teachers. The aim of this new teaching approach is to achieve much more effective learning through real testing and control experiences in the laboratory by the students themselves, ensuring group reasoning and collaborative learning. As methodological insights, the design of this model involves teachers organizing the schedule of practical exercises and the previous supervision and tutoring of students for the preparation of the exhibition, facilitating the resolution of problems that they will solve with the Flipped Classroom model. This innovative teaching model provides the description of methodological resources and their assessment tools, through participatory rubrics filled by students and teachers, about their own exposition along with the quality of the exposition of their classmates, to draw global and particular conclusions for its replication to other subjects that belong to the construction and building fields. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.