Abstract
The changes provided by the EEES constitute a challenge and an opportunity to introduce methods and improvements in technical careers. The assessment of this scenario has an important and strategic role, which requires paying more attention to the competency evaluation. This paper describes the method and the collaborative task carried out to develop the rubrics for the three-year Workshop Project in the framework of the undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development. The purpose of this was to overcome challenges while assessing design projects in different workshops and by different professors. The team predicted that these rubrics would have a significant effect on the students’ outcomes and their performance on various tasks. The implementation of the rubrics on the different levels is expected to sustain interesting possibilities to compare not only the results in different courses but the actual progress. The stages of the process of making these rubrics are presented in relation to the specific, general and shared competences of each of the 3 workshops. The rubrics, that will be published online, are related to the assessment of the results obtained and the competences. Rubrics may not only boost academic performance and reduce failure, but improve the quality of the projects as well.
Highlights
This article presents the design of rubrics agreed upon for the three courses given in the Workshop Project and the hypothesis that this assessment tool plays a fundamental role in the coordination and articulation of progress for the achievement of the expected competency levels in these workshops
To improve students’ learning, it has been deemed necessary to set out a strategy which would allow for proper consistency between the subject matter, the learning outcomes, and the skills acquired at the end of the studies. To this end we are working on a Teaching Innovation Project whose aim is to outline some common guidelines to articulate and promote the coordination and the role of the Workshop Project in this degree program and in the two universities that teach it: the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería del Diseño and the Escuela Politècnica Superior de Alcoy, both under the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
The approach and development of the rubrics was done in the following stages: 1. First, a debate was opened between the whole project team and all the professors who are responsible for teaching the different workshops to clarify the objectives of each one and to bring together the different approaches, the relationship with other subjects, the main problems, and the characteristics of the work being carried out
Summary
This article presents the design of rubrics agreed upon for the three courses given in the Workshop Project and the hypothesis that this assessment tool plays a fundamental role in the coordination and articulation of progress for the achievement of the expected competency levels in these workshops. Coordination between these subjects is complicated due to their presence in different courses, and their assignment to different departments with differing and occasionally isolated approaches given to the subject For this reason, to improve students’ learning, it has been deemed necessary to set out a strategy which would allow for proper consistency between the subject matter, the learning outcomes, and the skills acquired at the end of the studies. To improve students’ learning, it has been deemed necessary to set out a strategy which would allow for proper consistency between the subject matter, the learning outcomes, and the skills acquired at the end of the studies To this end we are working on a Teaching Innovation Project whose aim is to outline some common guidelines to articulate and promote the coordination and the role of the Workshop Project in this degree program and in the two universities that teach it: the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería del Diseño and the Escuela Politècnica Superior de Alcoy, both under the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Speci fi es the product wi th good a rguments the to be devel oped
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