National University Open and Distance

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Phase 1 - Identification
of environmental

1. General description of the course

Faculty or School of Agricultural, Livestock and

Academic Unit Environment Sciences
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Further training
Course Name Definition of Environmental Indicators
Course Code 358024
Course Type Theoretical Can be yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of 3
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ of 2
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 25
Starting date of the
Deadline of the activity:
activity:
February 14, 2019
February 1, 2019
Competence to develop: The student recognizes the origin of the
environmental indicators that will serve as input in the use, design and
definition of this type of environmental information in their academic
and work performance.
Topics to develop: UNIT 1 Fundamental elements for the formulation
of environmental indicators
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop The
collaborative work group will work on a series of activities in which
different tasks will be solved, comprising three basic phases, such as;
pre-homework, homework and post-homework. In this sense, the pre-
task phase refers to the study and acquisition of own knowledge for
the development of activities
Activities to develop
Each Student must locate the Syllabus of the course that is in the
knowledge environment, it is recommended to make a rigorous
reading of said document that allows him to identify from the contents
of the course one (1) subject of his particular interest, report this topic
in the collaborative learning environment Forum Phase 1 -
Recognition, you must make your contribution by focusing as a main
message the answer to the following questions:

What are the objectives of environmental indicators?

What is the importance of environmental indicators?

How to use environmental indicators in the professional field?

Then, make a mental map where present, the structure of an

environmental indicator in the environmental components (Water,
Soil, Air, Flora and Fauna). The student will take a different
component to his partner and report it in the forum of the
collaborative learning environment.

Environment
Collaborative learning.
for the
development
Individual:
The document must be delivered individually
exclusively in the monitoring and evaluation
environment with a maximum of 4 pages in PDF
format, as follows:
Products to
 Cover.
deliver by
 Introduction, answering the questions posed.
student
 Mind map.
 References consulted in APA.
 The individual report of Phase I must be
submitted in PDF in the Evaluation and
Monitoring Environment.
 Collaborative:
Does not apply

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the
development
of
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by
the student
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibilit
y for the
delivery of
products by
students
The APA Standards are the most used style of
organization and presentation of information in the
area of social sciences. These are published under a
Manual that allows you to have access to the ways in
which a scientific article should be presented. Here
Use of you can find the most relevant aspects of the sixth
references edition of the APA Standards Manual, such as
references, citations, preparation and presentation of
tables and figures, headings and seriation, among
others. You can check how to implement them by
going to http://normasapa.com/

In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
Plagiarism
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
policy
“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 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/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric

Activity Individual Collaborati

☒ ☐
type: Activity ve Activity
Moment
Unit
of the
Initial ☒ Intermedia ☐ Final ☐
evaluatio
te:
n
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Score
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
Syllabus The student The student
The student
review participated in included a
did not
Answer to a timely message
present or 5
the manner and related to the
participate
questions fully complied syllabus but it
with reflection
with the does not
 request correspond to regarding the
regarding the the request or syllabus.
relevant is not his
content of the responsibility.
course.
( Up to 5 (up to 3 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student
limited himself
did NOT
The student to include his
participate in
participated individual
Participati the debate
actively and contributions or
on in the activity and 5
opportunely. he did it
forum presented his
extemporaneou
phase 1 work.
sly.
(up to 5 (up to 3 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student
Through the
presents a did not show
mental map
basic structure reading or
the student
but it lacks participated
extracts and
elements for with the
Mental satisfactorily
the mental map 10
Map presents the
construction of task of the
ideas of the
the mental learning
course
map. strategy.
(up to 10 (up to 5 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The document The
The spelling does not document has
is good and the present shortcomings
document is misspellings in writing and
Structure, coherent in its but the wording misspellings.
writing entirety. The is poor. The It did not
and handling of student include 5
spelling, appointments includes some references or
APA and references references but does not
standards is satisfactory they are not in respond to the
APA. APA format.
(up to 5 (up to 2 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Points
Final score
25