Rúbrica para evaluar la elaboración de un proyecto de investigación basado en el desarrollo de competencias

Abstract

The perspective of competency-based education, specifically the one that is provided at higher education models, leads to a new vision of the educational process and its evaluation. The evaluation from this approach is intended to evaluate the performance of students during and activity, or a problem during exercising their profession; it takes as reference evidences and indicators with training purposes. One of the instruments used is a Rubric. Rubrics are qualitative descriptor that describes the nature of the academic performance ^[1], through a set of criteria that allow graduates to value learning, knowledge and / or skills achieved. The present document describes the development of a rubric to assess competences during the elaboration of a research project. This rubric, examines the process of scientific research: the title and outline of the thematic contents, abstract, introduction, framework or theoretical reference, problem statement, method, results, discussion, conclusion, and references based on APA criteria. The document shows elements of an academic paper that can be used in teaching.