Evaluación colaborativa e implementación de la competencia de comunicación en la asignatura de Avances en Reproducción del Grado de Biología

Resumen

In the teachings of Higher Education in Sciences, it is of great importance to improve the results in the evaluation of learning, deepening in a formative evaluation and valuing the acquisition of competencies, with the use of collaboration or cooperation techniques. With this experience, the aim is to integrate collaborative evaluation methodological strategies into the evaluation system, with different procedures and instruments, using digital applications. An inventory was incorporated, with questions elaborated by the students, to carry out the evaluation of relevant concepts and applying an evaluation of the communicative competence, using a rubric to evaluate the presentations. The opinions of the students about these activities were evaluated with a satisfaction questionnaire. The incidence of passing the subject of this collaborative evaluation, together with other instruments, was 100%. With the rubric, a very good correlation has been verified between the overall rating, the teacher’s rating and the co-evaluation. In the satisfaction questionnaire, the average values obtained were quite high, with an equal distribution between the different items. With the use of collaborative evaluation methodologies and techniques, using computer applications, the learning of the concepts corresponding to the subject and the acquisition of basic and transversal competencies have been favored. Finally, a significant improvement in the motivation and interest of the students was verified