Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Colombian Education
Code: 551035

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 3 - Analyzing Colombian foreign

language education policies

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Individual
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 175 points
The activity starts on: The activity ends on: Saturday May
Wednesday, April 5th 2023 14th 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome:

Learning Outcome 3: analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the Bilingualism

Plan in Colombia, considering their own experiences and perspectives of various
authors.
The activity consists of:

Step 1: Read the documents

Go to the learning environment and read the references of unit 2; check the points of
view of the authors related to the bilingualism plan and the impact on theeducational
policy system.

Step 2: Opinion article

Write an opinion article where you present your position about the bilingualism plan
in Colombia. Here you need to analyze the readings of unit 2, read and reflect on each
reading and take a side. In the article, you have to show the advantages and
disadvantages of the bilingualism plan in Colombia.

What is an Opinion Article?

It is an article in which the writer expresses their personal opinion, typically one which
is controversial or provocative, about a particular issue or item of news.
Structure:
-Title
-Introduction: Introduce the topic and ideas

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-Body: Develop the ideas (disadvantages/advantages-positive aspects/negative aspects)
-Conclusion: Give opinions, points of view, take sides.

Recommendations
-It should be at least three pages long
-Avoid headlines that are questions
-Open with a strong first line
-Use active and conversational voice
-Keep paragraphs self-contained, short but variable
-Don’t try just to teach your readers, touch them emotionally as well
-Use active voice
-Give a winning conclusion

Step 3: Give feedback to your classmates

Give meaningful feedback to a least two classmates and take screenshots of this
feedback, and add them to the final document.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Check the course agenda to be aware of the activities this course implies.
- Go over the course rules and conditions to double-check your commitment to
participate in the course activities accordingly.
- Be attentive to the informative web conferences schedule to assure your
attendance.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Read thoroughly the course syllabus to understand the dynamics and nature of the
Colombian Education course.
- Go over the requested material in the contents and bibliographic references
section.
- Interact in the forum with peers to check their contributions and provide and get
meaningful feedback.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

- Submit the individual outcome consisting of a PDF with the opinion article and
check your score and feedback afterward.

Evidence of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

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A PDF with the opinion article according to guidelines and screenshots of forum
interaction.
Evidence of collaborative work:
No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

The PDF to be submitted to the Evaluation environment should meet the
requirements from the activity guide.

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
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

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Type of activity: Individual
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 175 points
First evaluation High level: The article has the structure required; the title is
criterion: according to the topic, and the introduction shows the most
relevant ideas of the article. The body of the article includes the
Write an opinion ideas in an orderly manner. Also, the conclusion expresses the
article about student’s point of view and opinion. It has the requested
bilingualism in extension.
Colombia If your work is at this level, you can get between 60 points
and 70 points
This criterion
represents 70 Average level: The article does not have the structure
points of the total required, the title is not according to the topic of the article, and
of 175 points of the ideas in the body of the text are not well organized. Finally,
the activity. the student does not add his point of view at the end of the
article.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 42 points
and 59 points

Low level: There is no article, or the student posts a very short

article of fewer than two pages without the requirements of the
guidelines.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 41 points
Second evaluation High level: The ideas addressed in the article show a deep
criterion: analysis of the readings of unit 2, the student supports the ideas
accurately and keeps cohesion and coherence in their writing.
Analyze the The point of view is clear, demonstrating a clear position and a
readings of the unit critical attitude.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 64 points
This criterion and 75 points
represents 75
points of the total Average level: The ideas addressed in the article do not show
of 175 points of a deep analysis of the readings of unit 2. The student does not
the activity. support the ideas accurately and problems with cohesion and
coherence in his writing may arise. The point of view might not

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 be consistent to demonstrate a clear position and a critical
attitude.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 45 points
and 63 points

Low level: There is no evidence of the article, or it is extremely

short, no longer than one page.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 44 points
Third evaluation High level: There is timely participation in the forum to post
criterion: own contributions and to provide meaningful feedback to at least
two peers’ contributions. The final document includes the
Provide meaningful requested screenshots.
feedback to peers’ If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
contributions in the and 30 points
forum
This criterion Average level: There is interaction in the forum but no
represents 30 meaningful feedback is evident to at least two peers.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 18 points
of 175 points of and 24 points
the activity.
Low level: The requested screenshots with evidence of forum
participation were not included in the final submission of the
activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 23 points