Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity guide and evaluation rubric – Task 4 – Final Exam

1. General description of the course

School or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional

Academic Field Formación disciplinar

Course Name English Exams

Course Code 551039
Course Type Theoretical Retake Yes ☒ No ☐
exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ of 2
activity:
weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☐ Final ☒
moment:
Environment to submit the
Total score of the activity: activity:
125 Collaborative Learning and Monitoring
and Evaluation Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: July 21st,
activity: July 8th, 2020 2020
Competence to develop:
Students thoroughly explain one of the English international exams
valid in Colombia through a video, understanding its nature and
dynamics and giving arguments to support a decision about taking it
or not in the future.
Topics to develop:
International English Exams
Step, phase or stage of the learning strategy to develop
Task 4 – Final Exam – Individual video about an international English
exam valid in Colombia
Activities to develop

Choose one of the English exams valid in Colombia, post your selection
in the forum, and explain the following features about the exam also in
the forum:

1. What is the purpose of the exam?

2. What kind of people can take this exam?
3. What is the main goal of the exam?
4. What are the most significant characteristics of the exam?
5. What skills are evaluated through the exam and how are they
evaluated?
6. What scale is used to get the results?
7. Would you take that exam in the future? Why?
8. References according to APA rules

Make a 3 to 5-minute academic video with above information about

the exam. You can use slides to support your ideas, but it is
mandatory the use of web cam. Be careful with the quality of the
video regarding grammar, pronunciation, fluency and vocabulary and
sound quality as well. Be sure that the link to your video is public, so
that any person with the link can access it without any restriction.

Post your answers and video in the forum to get feedback from peers.
Likewise, you should comment their contributions.

Submit to the Monitoring and Evaluation Environment a PDF file with

the answers to above questions and the public link to your video.

Environments
Knowledge Environment, Collaborative Learning
for the
Environment and Evaluation and Monitoring
development
Environment
of the activity
Products to Individual:
be submitted
by students PDF file with information about an international
English exam valid in Colombia, link to a video
presenting that exam, and references.
 Collaborative:

Getting and giving feedback about peers’

contributions in the forum.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for the
Students work in the forum available in the
development of
collaborative environment and develop the task.
collaborative
work
Roles to be Different roles are proposed within the
performed by collaborative environment that allows an
the student in appropriate space for academic and affective
the collaborative interaction that promotes learning and
group interpersonal relationships.
Every one of the learning moments is divided in
an individual and a group stage. Each student will
take up one of these roles for the development of
the course assignments and can only be changed
if decided by the group members.

Facilitator:
Makes sure that every voice is heard and focuses
work around the learning task. Provides
leadership and direction for the group and
suggests solutions to team problems.

Recorder:
Keeps a public record of the team's ideas and
progress. Checks to be sure that ideas are clear
and accurate.

Timekeeper:
Encourages the group to stay on task. Announces
when time is halfway through and when time is
nearly up.
Planner:
 States an action for the completion of the task at
hand according to the instructions and course
agenda.

Task monitor:
Looks for supplies or requests help from the
teacher when group members agree that they do
not have the resources to solve the problem.
Compiler:
Puts together the final product and includes the
work done only by those who participated on
time. Informs the student in charge of alerts
about people who did not participate and will not
be included in the final product.

Reviser / editor:
Makes sure the written work follows all the
criteria established in the activity guide.

Evaluator:
Evaluates the final document to ensure it follows
Roles and duties
the evaluation criteria of the rubric and informs
for the
the student in charge of alerts about any changes
submission of
that need to be made before delivering the
products by
product.
students
Deliveries:
Student in charge of informing about the dates
set for presenting each task and delivering the
final product according to the course agenda.
Also informs other students that the final product
has been sent.

Alerts:
Informs group participants about any news in the
work being done and reports the delivery of the
final product to the course tutor.

References In the following links you find information about

rules APA sixth version, please, keep in mind for
 doing the teamwork’s references.

Zavala, S. (2009). Guía a la redacción en el estilo

APA, 6ta edición. Biblioteca de la Universidad
Metropolitana. Recuperado de:
http://www.cibem.org/paginas/img/apa6.pdf

Norma APA sexta edición. (s.f). Centro de

Escritura Javeriano. Recuperado de:
http://portales.puj.edu.co/ftpcentroescritura/Rec
ursos%20C.E/Estudiantes/Referencia%20bibliogr
%C3%A1ficas/Normas%20APA%20Sexta
%20Edici%C3%B3n.pdf
Plagiarism policy What is plagiarism for UNAD? The plagiarism is
defined by RAE dictionary as an action of
"copying in the core of work of others, giving
them as their own". Therefore, plagiarism is a
serious offense: it is the academic equivalent, to
theft. A student who plagiarizes does not take his
education seriously and does not respect the
intellectual work of others.

There is no small plagiarism. If a student makes

use of any portion of another person's work, and
does not document their source, he or she is
doing an act of plagiarism. Now, it is clear that
we all have the ideas of others when it comes to
presenting ours, and that our knowledge is based
on the knowledge of others. But when we rely on
the work of others, academic honesty requires
that we explicitly announce the fact that we are
using an external source, either by appointment
or by a cited paraphrase (these terms will be
defined below). When we make an appointment
or a paraphrase, we clearly identify our source,
not only to give recognition to its author, but also
so that the reader can refer to the original if he
wishes.
There are academic circumstances in which,
exceptionally, it is not acceptable to quote or
paraphrase the work of others. For example, if a
teacher assigns his students a task in which
students are clearly asked to respond using their
ideas and words exclusively, then the student
should not appeal to external sources even if they
were properly referenced.
 4. Evaluation rubric
Task 4 – Final Exam
Evaluation rubric

Collaborative
Activity type: Individual Activity ☒ ☐
Activity
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☐ Final ☒
moment
Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
The student does
The student posts The student posts
not post in the
in the forum the the required
Accurate selected English information in the forum their
information exam valid in forum, but it is not selection of English
about selected exam nor the 35
Colombia and complete or not
English exam accurate answers accurately answers to the
to all questions. consolidated. required questions.
(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (0 points)
The student posts
The student creates
a public link to
a video, but the link
their video which
is not public, or it
includes all The student does
does not include all
required not post a link to
Video creation the required
information and their video. 20
information, or web
was made using
cam was not used,
web cam. The
or the quality of the
quality of the
sound is poor.
sound is excellent.
(up to 25 points) (up to 15 points) (0 points)
The contributions The contributions in
The contributions in
in the forum and the forum and the
the forum and the
the content of the content of the video
Grammar content of the video
video do not have have plenty of 20
have several
grammar issues or grammar issues.
grammar issues.
just a few.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (0 points)
Pronunciation The student The student The student has a
20
produces the produces the lot of pronunciation
 mistakes which
deeply affects the
language with language, but the message to deliver,
accurate pronunciation is not or the student did
pronunciation. clear. not submit the
video.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (0 points)
The speech is very
hesitant and
The speech is irregular most of
The student’s
Fluency sometimes hesitant the time, or the
speech is smooth. 20
and irregular. student did not
submit the video.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (0 points)
The student
submits to the
Monitoring and Student does not
Evaluation submit a PDF file Student does not
Environment the according to submit a file to the
activity in a PDF instructions, or the Monitoring and
Activity answers to
file, with the Evaluation 10
submission questions are not
answers to Environment.
included or they are
questions and the
incomplete.
public link to the
video.

(up to 10 points) (up to 5 points) (0 points)

Final score 125