Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric
Task 1 – Fishbone Diagram

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Colombian Education
Course Code 551035
Course Type Teórico Can be enabled Yes ☒ No ☐
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
Moment:
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
25 points
Environment
Starting Date of the Activity: Deadline of the Activity:
November 19, 2019 December 2, 2019
Competences to Develop:
Students recognize the trends and issues of the teaching and learning
process of English as a foreign language in order to analyze the
development of education in Colombia.
Topics to Develop:
Unit 1 - Development of Colombian Education in the XXI Century
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
In this activity students develop the following steps:
Step 1: The people vs. the School System
Step 2: Fishbone diagram
Step 3: Submission
Task-based learning strategy: The course uses the Task-Based
Language Learning as a methodological background offering
interactive and enjoyable activities for the students where the foreign
language is used with the aim of achieving a communicative outcome
(Willis, 1996). The tasks are organized in learning stages (steps),
where the students develop competencies through tasks and practical
activities.
Activities to Develop

Step 1 – The people vs. the School System: Watch the 8 minutes’
video “The People vs. the School System” at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8 or listen to it at
https://soundcloud.com/prince-ea/we-just-sued-the-school-system

Step 2 - Fishbone diagram: After watching the video, make a

fishbone diagram on a problem in the Colombian education system
you consider relevant according to your experience as a teacher
and/or student. There are several templates you can use in
https://www.canva.com/

Go to the Practical Learning Environment and download the file “Guide

for the use of educational resources”. Watch the Canva tutorial.

Ishikawa diagrams (also called fishbone diagrams, herringbone

diagrams, cause-and-effect diagrams, or Fishikawa) are causal
diagrams created by Kaoru Ishikawa that show the causes of a specific
event.

Use the structure to the fishbone diagram to state causes and possible
solutions.
Create a head, which lists the problem or issue to be considered.
Create a backbone for the fish (straight line which leads to the head).
Identify at least three “causes” that contribute to the problem.
Connect these four causes with arrows to the spine. These will create
the first bones of the fish. Write statements to describe the causes.
Then state possible solutions to the causes that contribute to the
problem and connect them to the spine. Write statements to describe
the solutions.
Example:

Share it in the forum and make comments on your classmates’

contributions.

Step 3 – Submission:
In a document add the fishbone diagram and submit it through the
monitoring and evaluation environment.
Practical Environment: Students must watch the
video tutorial in the Guide for the use of educational
Environme
resources located in the practical environment.
nts for the
Developm
Collaborative Learning: Students must participate in
ent of the
forum Task 1 – Fishbone Diagram sharing the learning
Activity
process and making comments on classmates’
contributions.
 Evaluation and Monitoring: Students must submit the
final document through the link Task 1- Fishbone
Diagram in the monitoring and evaluation environment.
Individual:
1. Submission Environment:
Students must submit the final document through the
link Task 1- Fishbone Diagram in the monitoring and
evaluation environment according to the following
information:

1. Presentation cover
2. Introduction
Products 3. Fishbone Diagram
to be 4. Conclusion
Submitted 5. References
by
Students 2. Submission format:
The document can be delivered in Word or pdf.
Cover according to APA style.
Font: Arial o Times New Roman 12
Line spacing: 1.5

Collaborative:
In this activity, a collaborative product should not be
delivered; it is only an interaction among the members
of the group in the forum.

General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Planning of
Activities for the
Development of N/A
Collaborative
Work
Roles to Be
Performed by the
Student in the N/A
Collaborative
Group
Roles and Duties
for the
Submission of N/A
Products by
Students
All references considered for this activity have to
be cited using APA Style.
American Psychological Association APA rules: It
is very important for students to take into
References account these rules in order to avoid difficulties
with plagiarism and the consequences they may
face in the assessment processes. BibMe. (n.d.).
APA Citation Guide. Retrieved from
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013,
article 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the
academic order, among others, are the
following: paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to
present as your own work the whole or part of a
writing, report, task or document of invention
performed by another person. It also implies the
use of cites or lack of references, or includes
cites where there is no coincidence between
them and the reference” and paragraph f)”To
reproduce, or copy for profit, educational
resources or results of research products, which
Plagiarism Policy have intellectual rights reserved for the
University”.

The academic punishments that the student will

face are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved
will be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary
measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the
academic work of any nature, the score
achieved will be zero (0.0), without leading to
disciplinary measures.
 To know how the documents must be cited,
check the following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA.
Sexta edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/ind
ex.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1
38:normas-apa&catid=45:referencias-
bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Task 1 – Fishbone Diagram
Individual
Activity Type: ☒ Collaborative Activity ☐
Activity
Moment of the Intermediate
Initial ☒ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High Score Media Score Low Score
Good at
Excellent at
presenting the
presenting the
main ideas and
main ideas and
specific
specific
information.
information.
Partially identified
Accurately
the problem,
identified the
causes and
Fishbone problem, causes No fishbone
possible solutions.
Diagram and possible diagram was 15 points
Statements are
solutions. presented.
connected but do
Statements are
not highlight the
well connected
relevance of each
highlighting the
one to the
relevance of each
progress of the
one to the progress
diagram. There
of the diagram.
are many
There are minor
punctuation
 punctuation and/or and/or spelling
spelling mistakes. mistakes.
(up to 0
(up to 15 points) (up to 7 points)
points)
The student
participated in the
forum on time and No feedback
Poor feedback was
gave meaningful was given to
given to partners.
Feedback feedback about classmates. 5 points
his/her partners’
work
(up to 0
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points)
points)
The document The document The Final
included all the included some of product was
Content of the required items in a the required items not
5 points
Final Product correct way. but not enough. submitted.
(up to 0
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points)
points)
Final Score 25 points