Abstract:The international accreditation for the Master and Bachelor degrees offered at our university, together with the demands of the employers, have made it clear that the students' curricula should specify not only what they have studied, but also what they are actually able to do. Although the competence based curricula approach has been used in the development of the new programmes for the Master and Bachelor degrees within the European Higher Education Area in recent years, the assessment of these competences is still a pending task. This work presents an 'outcomes' approach for the assessment of the oral and written communication skills within subjects related to mechanical and materials engineering. In particular, this paper proposes some rubrics developed in order to quantify the level of achievement. These rubrics are based on the evaluation of some learning outcomes that can be observed by using different strategies during the course. Conclusions about preliminary results and the difficulties found in order to create these tools are also described here.
En esta comunicación se presentan las actividades de evaluación desarrolladas en el marco de un Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora Educativa, junto con algunos resultados preliminares. El principal objetivo de este proyecto es el diseño de actividades de evaluación que fuercen a los estudiantes a desarrollar sus competencias transversales, al mismo tiempo que permitan a los profesores evaluar su desempeño en las competencias científico-técnicas. Se emplea un enfoque de evaluación formativa, de forma que las actividades de evaluación sean útiles a los estudiantes para mejorar su aprendizaje. Palabras clave: competencias transversales, actividades de evaluación, coevaluación
Abstract:The international accreditation for the Master and Bachelor degrees offered at our university, together with the demands of the employers, have made it clear that students' curricula should specify not only what they have studied, but also what they are actually able to do. Although the competence based curricula approach has been used in the development of the new programmes for Master and Bachelor degrees within the European Higher Education Area in recent years, the assessment of generic competences is still a pending task. This work presents an 'outcomes' approach for the assessment of the problem-solving capacity in subjects related to mechanical and materials engineering. In particular, this paper proposes a scale in order to quantify the level of achievement and shows some tools developed for this purpose. These tools are based on the evaluation of some learning outcomes that can be observed by using different strategies during the course. Conclusions about preliminary results and the difficulties found in order to create these tools and the scale are also described here.
Con el objetivo principal de evaluar la competencia de comunicación oral, se ha empleado durante los últimos años una metodología basada en la coevaluación, para obtener resultados cuantitativos de las sesiones de laboratorio de la asignatura Ciencia de Materiales del Grado en Ingeniería Química. La metodología pretende que los alumnos participen más activamente la evaluación continua de la asignatura. Los alumnos tienen que preparar y realizar una presentación oral resumen de la sesión anterior al resto de sus compañeros. La presentación será evaluada usando una rúbrica como herramienta de evaluación. La evaluación fue realizada utilizando dos rúbricas diferentes, una de ellas diseñada por los autores como parte del "Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora Educativa" (PIME) de la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Otra desarrollada posteriormente en la UPV, basándose en la experiencia derivada de diferentes PIMEs. Se busca comparar si hay una buena correlación entre los resultados obtenidos con ambas rúbricas. Palabras clave: competencias transversales, comunicación oral, rúbrica
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