Estudio de la carga de trabajo percibida y de la calidad docente en los grados de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura y Edificación de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena = Study of workload and teaching quality higher technical school for arc

Since the academic year 2014-2015, Polytechnic University of Cartagena is quantifying the workload perceived by their students. This is used a Likert scale in which students evaluate the workload of each of the subjects enrolled and can include comments on the questionnaire. On the other hand, satisfaction with the teaching activity surveys are carried out for years. The main objective of this study is to determine if students’ satisfaction with the teaching activity is related to workload and academic results of each subject, to be precise, i.e. if are less demanding teachers in general, get better results in the satisfaction surveys. The study is based on the values obtained in the perceived workload, students´ evaluation of teaching quality and academic results of the course 2014-2015 for the subjects of the degree in Architecture and Building Engineering of the Higher Technical School of Architecture and Building of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. The main conclusion is that there is very little relationship between the studied variables and also results of students´ evaluation of teaching quality can be considered firm and reliable