Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed different aspects of the teaching-learning process. The health crisis caused by COVID-19 in March 2020 modified teaching activities to an on-line version during several months. Therefore, the development of on-line tools was required to adapt to these changes and carry out final examination using fully digital platforms. On the one hand, European Higher Education Area (EHEA) promotes an evaluation based on competencies that students need to acquire, using a great variety of assessment tools with a high innovation degree. On the other hand, Rubrics are well-known instruments recommended for performing student evaluations based on competencies. Rubrics also allow the participation of all components involved in this evaluation process, aligning the evaluation and the teaching-learning model, and students’ monitoring of their own activity. This way, the process favors the development of responsibility towards the learning process and the capacity of self-evaluation and understanding the quality of the work carried out and methods of improvement.
This work presents a teaching innovation experience that aimed to design a flexible evaluation itinerary (off-line/on-line) adapted to all possible situations in on-line teaching, using learning objects (e-rubrics) in compliance with competence-based assessment. Electronic rubrics (e-rubrics) were used to implement the present work and evaluate competencies acquired by students in the degree of agronomic sciences at the University of Valladolid. The methodology included, i) the design of a flexible off-line/on-line evaluation itinerary, ii) the elaboration of e-rubrics, iii) its implementation in evaluating students from the Degrees and Masters of Agronomic Sciences at the University of Valladolid, iv) the comparison of different tools and their functionalities and finally v) the evaluation and dissemination of results. The results showed that the combination of off-line/on-line assessment tools (e-rubrics) allowed the implementation of a flexible evaluation (off-line/on-line) itinerary, which can be easily applied for evaluating students’ performance in Agronomic sciences (Degrees and Master levels) at the EHEA.

Keywords:

Innovation, competences assessment, COVID-19, CoRubrics, Moodle.