Assessment oral competence with rubrics for the Ibero-American Knowledge Space Evaluación de la competencia oral con rúbricas digitales para el Espacio Iberoamericano del Conocimiento

Abstract

The institutions of the Ibero-American Knowledge Space (EIC) collaborate in educational projects. Communication skills are essential for the professional development and collaboration of the EIC itself. This paper analyzes the results of a collaborative educational project between eight universities and five Ibero-American countries on the construction of a common rubric validated with Delphi to assess oral competences in the presentation of projects by students. The rubric was applied to three groups of students from three different institutions and countries (Cuba, Ecuador and Spain), with formative evaluation modalities (teacher, self-evaluation and peers), analyzing 788 total evaluations (90 teachers, 61 self-evaluations and 637 peers). The results confirm a "Cronbach's alpha" (.934) for the 22 variables analysed. With Tukey's Post-Hoc test in all items, the peer evaluations are worse than the teacher evaluations, while the self-evaluations are better. The students' opinion with a validated satisfaction instrument obtaining a significant proposal to reissue the rubric. The article offers as a product a base rubric validated and successfully experienced in geographically differentiated contexts of the EIC.