Learning and assessment about competences in Social Sciences university students

Abstract

On the new European Higher Education Area the students exercise their academic and professional competences. From the formative approach, the learning develops the acquisition of basic competences such as team work, the creative and entrepreneur capacity or communicate and relationship capacity. This paper studies in the learning and assessment of competences in Social Sciences university students through instruments mediational that allow theirs to reflect on the skills needed to profession. The sample includes 273 university students belonging to the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pablo Olavide University of Seville. Through a group task based on problem-based learning (PBL), they used the team notebook to mediate for regulation of team and the rubric in the end presentation task. The group interaction self-report (GIS) was use for evaluate basic competences acquired in the task by students. The results show a great disposition of the students to participate in research teams exercising professional competences through the mediational instruments. In open tasks the mediational instruments allow students to manage their relationships and acquire competencies that are fundamental to profession.

Keywords

• aprendizaje cooperativo
• aprendizaje orientado hacia la evaluación
• competencias profesionales
• educación superior
• evaluación entre iguales
• cuaderno de equipo
• ciencias sociales