Comparison of competency evaluation tools effective oral communication

With the main objective of evaluating oral communication skills, a coevaluation methodology has been carried out for the last years to obtain quantitative results from data collected in the lab sessions on Materials Science, from the Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering. The evaluation methodology followed is focus on students encouragement to participate more actively in the continuous learning of the subject. Students were asked to prepare oral presentations to explain to the class a summary about a previous lesson. These presentations were evaluated by a rubric-based method. The evaluation was done by using two different rubrics. The first one developed by the authors as a part of a Universitat Politecnica de Valencia project in educational innovation and improvement (PIME); and the second one an institutional one. The last one was developed later at UPV and also based on the experience derived from PIMEs projects. The idea is to compare both of them to prove if there is a good correlation between them.