Assessment of the Improvement in Results through the Adaptation to the European Higher Education Space Pilot Plans

What is referred to as the European higher education space is likely to introduce significant changes in teaching methodology. Its possible consequences have been analysed through ´pilot plans´ such as those described here. In order to appreciate its effect, the present study focuses on the average success rate indicator over the number of students enrolled. It can, accordingly, be stated that this indicator has significantly improved in the first years of two different engineering degrees. In order to avoid the effect caused by having subjects of different lengths, the unit of measure used is the ´credit´ (10 hours class) rather than the number of students and the information has been grouped into two blocks, before and after the pilot plan. A significant improvement has been shown in both degree courses, especially so in three-year degree, which can basically be attributed to the smaller group size and having worse indicator values.