Abstract:

This communication presents an academic experience of rubric design focused on the improvement of teaching practice at the university. The rubric is one of the most widely used tools for formative assessment in virtual environments for teaching and learning. Its use can facilitate the communicative interaction between teachers and students improve the acquisition of skills, student skills and competencies and optimize the teaching and learning assessment process. A multidisciplinary team of university teachers of Pharmacy, involved in the continuous improvement of teaching practice and in updating the strategies for formative evaluation, he participated in a teacher training program for the design and use of rubrics. Based on personal needs and experiences and taking as a framework the teaching guides themselves, participants have generated a rubric system for evaluation. After a digital design tutored and feedback by teachers specialized in formative evaluation, it is expected that the rubrics created by the participants will be used in the online environment of the University of Granada. As part of the training process for the design of the rubrics for the evaluation, the participants have reflected on the possible achievements, potentialities and limitations of the methodology and the tool and have expressed their perception of formative evaluation with the use of rubrics and needs that as teachers they still perceive. As a result, the 33 participant’s members of the teaching team have developed 37 rubrics for the formative evaluation of theoretical contents, theoretical-practical activities and competences of 17 subjects of the Degree of Pharmacy. From the next academic year the participating teachers will incorporate them into their training processes where they can assess the effects that their use has for their evaluation practice. This is expected to have a positive impact on improving learning, on the acquisition of skills and in the transformation of the culture of evaluation and therefore in the improvement of Higher Education.

Keywords:

Evaluation rubrics, virtual environments, learning assessment, formative assessment, higher education.