Student engagement and perception of rubric-based evaluation process.

Abstract

In the R&D project EDU2010-15432 the objective of the study presented here focuses on the knowledge of the opinions of college students with experience in the use of rubrics. An overview of the evaluation using rubrics is obtained under two effects which are investigated: student engagement and perceptions of the evaluation process. The use of rubrics form an opinion based on the student, presented through the collection and analysis of a questionnaire designed for this purpose. It was decided to focus the study on two real contexts, with welldefined curriculum and academic similarities, through a single empirical design at the University of Granada and the University of Vigo. The results are organized around the characteristics of the rubric, the evaluation mode, the process/procedure and impact on learning. The overall evaluation of the experimentation with rubrics includes the opinion of students on five variables: the degree of student’s motivation, encourages the student to participate more, make the student more responsible, cooperative group work performed and recognized lack of honesty in self-evaluation. Besides, using the variable interest, utility and degree of agreement about the perception of the evaluation process are also results available. The main conclusions reside on the similarity of trends opinion of students of both universities, with slight percentage differences.

Keywords

• evaluación del estudiante
• evaluación formativa
• método de evaluación
• rúbricas
• actitud del estudiante
• evaluación basada en rúbricas
• educación superior