An experience of collaborative construction of rubrics with adult university Students

This work presents the experience of a project work performed during the course of “Evaluation of process and system”, developed during the third year of the on line degree program in “Vocational Training Sciences”. The programme has been developed during the years 2009-2013, at the former Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Padua), in collaboration with Isfol. The students are mainly trainers with a diploma but not yet graduated, who work in training centers, employment centers and schools. The course allowed them to experience a collaborative learning by designing a rubric on generic competences for a lifelong learning and citizenship competences. The rubric was chosen because it encourages in the students the comprehension of the theoretical construct of competence, it prepares as well the step to approaching a new assessment, expliciting the real nature and quality of the processes that support the students' performances. Generic competences was chosen to make the students (involved in evaluative practices) think and develop their professional ability about evaluation process as wider judgment on learning (or better on the critical thinking skill, on the problem solving skill, on metacognition and on the group work skill).