DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF-DIAGNOSIS GUIDE TO ASSESS THE INITIAL PROFICIENCY LEVEL OF THE STUDENT OUTCOME “EFFECTIVE ORAL COMMUNICATION”

Among the different student outcomes that scholars should achieved during their University studies, “Effective Oral Communication” is one of the most important ones since being a good communicator is very important not only for their professional careers but also for their social life. However, the different provenance of students when arrived at University results in most cases in a huge disparity in the domain of the competence, which makes it difficult to work in class through collective activities. In order to solve this problem, in this work, the development of a self-diagnosis guide to assess the initial proficiency level of the student outcome “Effective Oral Communication” is proposed. With this tool, both students and teachers will have a complete knowledge of the initial level of the outcome in order to detect the weaknesses and strengths in the domain of the competence. Therefore, the proposed self-diagnosis guide will permit teachers to adapt the activities to work the competence in class to the actual level of their students which will result in a higher improve of the level of the competence.