Use of Data Mining to Determine Usage Patterns of an Online Evaluation Platform During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

MenPas is a psychosocial assessment platform developed by the University of Malaga in 2008. There has been a significant increase in data traffic during the period of confinement by COVID-19 (March and April '20) compared to the same period in the previous year. The main goal to achieve in this work is to determine the patterns of use of this platform on both period of time. So, we want to respond to the following question: So, we the following question: Has the COVID-19 Pandemic changed the pattern of the Menpas users? In order to respond it, cluster analysis techniques (Data Mining) have been used to classify people taking surveys into quotient sets (cluster). This is a multivariate technique for dividing data into sets to that are as homogeneous as possible within themselves and heterogeneous among themselves. Specifically, the K-Means algorithm has been used for this analysis, which is based on the evaluation of the distance between data and the average of each variable. So, it is recommended to discover patterns or relationships among the data. Specifically, the use of the following questionnaires has been analyzed: Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Profile of Mood State (POMS), Resilience Scale (RS), Sport Performance Psychological Inventory (IPED), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Self-concept Form-5 (AF-5). The analyses have shown changes in cluster formation between 2019 and 2020 based on the variables gender, age, marital status or physical practice. Therefore, the analyses carried out have been sensitive to determine several profiles of people using the MenPas platform because there are changes in the characteristics of the user groups that have carried out the analyzed tests.

Una plataforma virtual para la evaluación e investigación on-line: Menpas / A virtual platform for on-line evaluation and research: MenPas / Uma plataforma virtual para avaliação e investigação on-line: MenPas

El desarrollo de una sociedad cada vez más tecnológica y unos ciudadanos con mayor necesidad de interactuar a través de las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación) está llevando a la comunidad científica a replantearse la forma de gestionar su trabajo y los medios para acceder a la investigación y a los sujetos investigados. Desde este planteamiento, el uso de plataformas virtuales para la evaluación e investigación facilita tanto el acceso de los individuos como la labor de los investigadores. En este documento presentamos la plataforma 'MenPas', desarrollada especialmente para el campo de la Psicología aunque abierta a otras disciplinas, en la que se desarrollan evaluaciones e investigaciones relativas a los diferentes cuestionarios y aplicaciones implementadas en la misma. A modo de ejemplo se utilizan datos descriptivos relativos a tres de los cuestionarios disponibles en la plataforma (IPSETA, IPED, PID) con la intención de establecer posibles diferencias significativas en función del tipo de evaluación administrada a los participantes (anónima vs. identificada)

Nowadays, we are living in a technological society. The new literacies of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) are influencing all areas of our personal and professional domains. The fact of people interacting everyday by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) becomes an issue that makes the scientific community to reconsider the way it makes its work and the way it is gathering individual subjects in its researching. Therefore, virtual platforms for evaluating and researching will provide a useful tool to get individual subjects and gathering the whole information. This paper presents 'Menpas', a Psychosocial Evaluation virtual platform which is developed in the field of Sports Psychology, but it is open to other researching fields where researching and evaluation are taken related to several surveys and applications developed in the platform.For example, descriptive data related to IPSETA, IPED, PID surveys, available in the platform, are used in order to set significant differences between anonymous and identified evaluation

O desenvolvimento de uma sociedade cada vez mais tecnológica e de cidadãos com maior necessidade de interagir por meio das TIC (Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação) está a conduzir a comunidade científica a repensar a forma de gerir o seu trabalho e os meios de acesso à investigação, bem como aos sujeitos que são analisados. A partir desta abordagem, o uso de plataformas virtuais para avaliação e investigação facilita tanto o acesso dos indivíduos, como o trabalho dos investigadores. No presente trabalho apresentamos a plataforma de Avaliação Psicossocial "MenPas", desenvolvida especialmente para o campo da Psicologia do desporto, embora seja também possível a sua utilização em outras disciplinas, que desenvolvem avaliação e investigação através de diversos questionários, , nas quais avaliações e investigações são desenvolvidas com relação aos diferentes questionários e aplicações nela implementadas. Por exemplo, , dados descritivos que são utilizados para três dos questionários disponíveis na plataforma (IPSETA, IPED, PID) com a intenção de estabelecer possíveis diferenças significativas dependendo do tipo de avaliação administrada aos participantes (anônimos vs. identificados)

Gestión de la calidad a través de la plataforma MEMPAS / Management of the Quality Across the Plataform MEMPAS

Las plataformas para evaluación e investigación se están convirtiendo en herramientas que facilitan dichas tareas con costes reducidos y muestras amplias. En este trabajo se presenta, parcialmente, la plataforma MenPas para evaluación psicosocial on-line. Se presentan los datos relativos a la fiabilidad del área de CALIDAD/ORGANIZACIONAL. El Alpha de Cronbach estimado oscila entre 0.838 y 0.961. Estos resultados avalan la propuesta metodológica de utilización de la plataforma MenPas como herramienta fiable que permiten reducir la deseabilidad social (AU)

The evaluation and research platforms are becoming tools that facilitate these tasks with reduced costs and large samples. In this paper, partly MenPas platform for psychosocial assessment online. We present data on the reliability of the area of Quality / Organizational. The estimated Cronbach’s Alpha ranges between 0,838 and 0,961. These results support the proposed methodology for using the platform MenPas as a reliable tool that can reduce social desirability (AU)