RUBRIC ELABORATION TO EVALUATE BY COMPETENCES A PRACTICE OF PHYSICS LABORATORY: PARALLEL-PLATE CAPACITOR

In recent years, different educational levels keep continue adopting the competence-based education model as a quality assessment system; in this context, competence evaluation becomes one of the most important tasks for educational processes because of its formative usefulness in the students' learning. Competence-based education is oriented towards an evaluation model linked to the student training, to encourage the development of an ability to identify, planify, solve problems and make decisions. In addition, it promotes the pursuit of meaningful learning and encourages collaborative work. The rubrics for the evaluation of competences appeared as a tool that allows to obtain evidence of competences acquisition and application of knowledge away from the classroom. The aim of this work is to present a proposal of rubrics for the competences evaluation for a Physics laboratory practice in which the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor is measured by altering separation between plates and then, by means of a least squares adjustment, to obtain the value of the air electric permittivity, epsilon 0, and the constant value, k, which appears in Coulomb's law. We have designed a laboratory practice and have developed the evaluation rubric applied to students of Physics for Computer Science Engineering for the Degree of Computer Engineering of the Higher Polytechnic School at University of Castilla -La Mancha (UCLM), located on Albacete campus, Spain. For the implementation of this rubric, we will select two study groups: a control group and an experimental group, the control group will develop the practice into the Physics laboratory without rubric evaluation information; and the experimental group, will develop practice in the Physics laboratory but with rubric evaluation information. Finally, we will evaluate students' perception about use of rubrics, and we will make a comparative analysis of both groups, considering the marks obtained in the practices and the results of the evaluation perception.