Abstract:

Since the beginning of the process of adaptation to the European Higher Education Area, the teaching-learning process has undergone many changes, focusing the process on training students in competences and giving them a leading role in their training. In this new model, it has been necessary to make changes centred on the teaching-learning methods and modalities, as well as on the teaching resources and assessment systems. Assessment, being a stage in the educational process aimed at evaluating and quantifying the degree of learning achieved by the student, is of great importance both for the students, (because it informs of their progress), and for the lecturers, (because it informs them of the effectiveness of the teaching framework they have developed). For this reason it has traditionally been the responsibility of the lecturer.

With this approach, it seems logical to give students an active role in the assessment process, using techniques such as self-assessment or peer assessment, but preserving the guarantee of the final result through teacher supervision, if necessary.

This paper presents the experience carried out in a core subject of the Chemical Engineering degree at the UPV, in which the peer assessment of an oral presentation made in the classroom by the students is proposed. This activity is carried out as a collaborative work in the subject for the transversal learning of process safety. For the evaluation, students are provided with a rubric identical to the one used by the teacher, in which different items are assessed, and finally a final grade is proposed. The rubric is completed by two randomly selected students and the teacher.

This work compares the results of the assessment carried out by the students with those carried out by the teacher in order to analyse whether it is possible to assign peer assessment to the students, validate the methodology developed and obtain lessons learnt that allow extrapolating this activity for the transversal teaching of process safety in other engineering disciplines.

Keywords:

Co-assessment, chemical engineering, safety process, safety shares.