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 Environment Sciences

Academic Unit
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 Credits 3

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 activity: Deadline of the activity:
Friday, April 03 2020 Thursday, April 16 2020
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
Products to Individual:
deliver by The document must be delivered individually
student exclusively in the monitoring and evaluation
environment with a maximum of 4 pages in PDF
format, as follows:

 Cover.
 Introduction, answering the questions posed.
 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/

Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

policy 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“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 Score
activity
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
Syllabus The student The student The student 5
review participated in included a did not
Answer to a timely message present or
the manner and related to the participate
questions fully complied syllabus but it with reflection
with the does not regarding the
request correspond to syllabus.
regarding the the request or
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
Participa participated individual
the debate
tion in the actively and contributions or
activity and 5
forum opportunely. he did it
presented his
phase 1 extemporaneou
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