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    The promotion and assessment of generic skills from interdisciplinary teaching teams
    (2013-07) Carreras Marín, Anna; Blasco-Martel, Yolanda; Badia-Miró, Marc; Bosch Príncep, Manuela; Morillo, Isabel; Cairó i Céspedes, Gemma; Casares Vidal, Dolors
    The paper explains a teaching project financed by the University of Barcelona (UB). It focuses on a generic skill of the University of Barcelona, which is defined as "the learning capability and responsibility”, and in which analytical and synthesis skills are included. It follows a multidisciplinary approach including teachers of Mathematics, World Economics and Economic History. All of us share the same students during the first and the second course of the grade in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The project has been developed in three stages. The first one has been done during the first semester of the course 2012/13, being applied to first year students on the subjects of Mathematics and Economic History. The second phase is being to be done during the second semester only on the Economic History subject. A third stage is going to be done next course 2013/14 to second year students on the subject of World Economics. Each different teaching team has developed specific materials and assessment tools for each one of the subjects included in the project. The project emphasizes two teaching dimensions: the elaboration of teaching materials to promote the acquisition of generic skills from an interdisciplinary point of view, and the design of specific tools to assess such skills. The first results of the first phase of the project shows clear deficiencies in the analytical skill regarding to first year students.
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    Evaluation of transversal competencies: pilot project in a maths course for first-year business
    (2013-07) Bosch Príncep, Manuela; Morillo, Isabel
    The aim of this communication is to describe the results of a pilot project for the assessment of the transversal competency "the capacity for learning and responsibility". This competency is centred on the capacity for the analysis, synthesis, overview, and practical application of newly acquired knowledge. It is proposed by the University of Barcelona in its undergraduate degree courses, through multidisciplinary teaching teams. The goal of the pilot project is to evaluate this competency. We worked with a group of students in a first-year Business Degree maths course, during the first semester of the 2012/2013 academic year. The development of the project was in two stages: (i) design of a specific task to share with the same students in the following semester when the subject would be economic history; and (ii) the elaboration of an evaluation rubric in which we defined the content, the aspects to evaluate, the evaluation criteria, and the marking scale. The attainment of the expectations of quality on the specific task was scored following this rubric, which provided a single basis for the precise and fair assessment by the instructor and for the students' own self-evaluation. We conclude by describing the main findings of the experience. There particularly stood out the high score in the students' self-evaluation given to one aspect of the competency – their capacity for learning – in stark contrast to their instructor's quite negative evaluation. This means that we have to work both to improve teaching practice and to identify the optimal competency evaluation methodology.