Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Toxicología Ambiental
Code: 358027

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Stage 5 Review and abstract

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 85 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, The activity ends on: Monday, November
November 12, 2020 30, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Write abstracts in the scientific article style, to properly manage the terminology of
environmental toxicology in English

The activity consists of:

The student must deliver an abstract and the bibliographic review with at least three articles
in English.

Step 1:

Individual

1. Students should look up on web sciences, SCOPUS, ScienceDirect and JACS

Journals with another scientific databases, at least three articles in English. This
articles must be related to the topic you are working.

2. Write the abstract and the keywords (At least 5 Keywords). This activity depends
on the Bioassay activity for that your abstract must reflect the experimental results
obtained in stage 4.

3. The document must have a Title, Author, institution and affiliation (for the case
of students, must be referenced in the article the CEAD and as affiliation Graduate
student of environmental Engineering or the career of each one).

4. Publish your abstract and the references consulted in the discussion forum.

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 Remember that only references in English are valid.

Collaborative

1. Each student reviews the classmate's abstract and, by voting, chooses which one
should be considered to include in the final group work.
2. Once the abstract is chosen, each student makes their contribution to improve it.
Students must ensure that the content of a scientific abstract is complied with
3. one of the group members compiles the individual contributions into a single
document. The document must contain:
a) Cover page
b) Individual abstract following the structure of a scientific article (Title, author,
affiliation and institution).
c) Abstract chosen and improved by the group.
d) Bibliographic review that each student carried out on the subject of the
project. Each member must provide 3 different references in the English
language, so in total there would be 15 references and must comply with APA
standards.
4. Another student delivers the compiled document using the assessment environment.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Consultation of course agenda and attention via Skype

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Consult documentation for unit 3

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

delivery of the compiled document

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Publish your abstract and the references consulted in the discussion forum.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

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The document must contain:
a) Cover page
b) Individual abstracts following the structure of a scientific article (Title, author,
affiliation and institution).
c) Abstract chosen and improved by the group.
d) Bibliographic review that each student carried out on the subject of the project. Each
member must provide 3 different references in the English language, so in total there
would be 15 references and must comply with APA standards.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

 All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

 In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.

 Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

 Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and

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paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
The highest score in this activity is 85 points
First evaluation High level: Post in forum individual abstract, which has good
criterion: structure, includes bioassay results, presents coherence and
excellent spelling. The student contributes at least three
Contributions of bibliographic references
individual abstracts If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
and review and 25 points

This criterion Average level: Describe the performance criterion of this le

represents 30 Post an individual summary in the forum, but it has flaws in the
points of the total structure, or it does not include results of the bioassay, or it
of 85 points of shows deficiencies in coherence or spelling. The student does not
the activity. provide at least three bibliographic references.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 19 points

Low level: Does not publish individual abstract.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Second evaluation
High level: An abstract is chosen and is improved by the group.
criterion:
The group summary presents a good structure, includes
bioassay results, has consistency and excellent spelling.
Group abstract

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 40 points
This criterion and 45 points
represents 45
points of the total Average level: An abstract is chosen and is improved by the
of 85 points of group, however, the group abstract has a regular structure or
the activity. does not include results from the bioassay or has deficiencies in
coherence or spelling.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 39 points

Low level: Do not perform group summary.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Third evaluation High level: The collaborative group presents a complete
criterion: bibliographic review, all references are scientific articles in
English and comply with APA standard.
Bibliographic review If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 10 points
This criterion
represents 10 Average level: The collaborative group presents a bibliographic
points of the total review but incomplete or not all references are scientific articles
of 85 points of in the English language or have deficiencies with APA standards.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 7 points
and 3 points

Low level: The collaborative group does not present a

bibliographic review.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points