Rubrics and self-regulation: guidelines to promote a culture of autonomy in tertiary professional training.

Abstract

Current competency-based educational models emphasize student’s self-regulatory processes, through this seek to develop skills for learning throughout life and thus contribute to the continuous improvement of professional performance. Rubrics are tools for training and evaluation, which gradually promotes selfregulating process, while progressively reduces the external support. This paper poses a methodological strategy to promote the students self-regulation by the use of rubrics. Three key elements that support the learning process are discussed: reflexive practice, collaborative learning and feedback provided by peers and teachers. The design and use of rubrics in higher education demand: curriculum alignment, coordination with other subjects in the same educational section, collegial work and critical reflection about formative practices. It also pose that designed learning environments must travel from areas of greater control and certainty to areas of greater complexity and uncertainty, leading students to nearby situations to professional performance in real settings. It concludes with a series of reflections on the generation of a culture of professional education that promotes greater autonomy and responsibility of students’ whit their own learning.

Keywords

• educación superior
• competencias
• rúbricas
• autorregulación
• práctica reflexiva
• aprendizaje colaborativo
• realimentación