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Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric Intermediate -
Stage 5 - Review and abstrac

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias y del

Academic Medio Ambiente
Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Environmental Toxicology
Course Code 358027
Course Type Theoretical Can ye ☒ N ☐
be s o
enabl
ed
Number of 3
Credits

2. Description of the activity

Numb
Type of
Individua ☒ Collaborativ ☐ e 2
the
l e r
activity:
of
wee
ks
U
Moment
Initial ☐ nit ☒ Fin ☐
of
Intermedia al
evaluatio
te
n:
:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of
activity: Evaluation and
the activity: 85
Monitoring
Environment
Starting date of Deadline of the activity:
the activity: 03/Mar/2020
 15/Feb/2020
Competence to be developed:
 The student must make a review about environmental
Toxicology, afterward, the student will write an summary about
the topics assigned, besides, should make a short text with the
bibliography referring to the research topic and the summary of
the activities carried out up to this stage throughout the course.
Topics to develop:
Summary in English of the developed practice (published in the forum
of Stage 4, which contains a review of at least three articles in
English arranged in the contents of the course)
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Intermediate - Unit 2: Epidemiological studies in environmental
areas and evaluation of exposure in health effects. Task 4. Case
analysis of a document. Task-based strategy

This activity will have three phases

Before Task 4. Read the bibliography assigned for unit 2 and
pertinent information and the article.
Task 4 Cycle. Individual activity. Case analysis of a document.
After the task 4. The individual analysis document must be
delivered in the evaluation and monitoring environment.
Activities to develop
Stage 5. Review and abstrac
Environme
Knowledge Environment
n t for the
Collaborative Learning
developm
Environment
e nt
Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
• Summary in English of the developed practice (published
in the forum of Stage 4, which contains a review of at least
three articles in English arranged in the contents of the
Products course).
to deliver
by student
• The student must publish in the forum of the activity his
summary in English, and must feed the summaries of his
classmates

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for the
development of There is no planning of activities for
collaborative collaborative work, since the work is
work exclusively individual.
Roles to perform
by the student in
No roles are presented because the work is
the
clearly individual, without the support of
collaborative
other students
group
Roles and
responsibilit y for
No roles are presented because the work is
the delivery of
clearly individual, without the support of
products by
other students
students
Always cite the references
 Use of American Psychological Association APA
references rules:
It’s very important for students to take into
account these rules in order to avoid
difficulties with
In the agreement 029 of December 13,
2013, article 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
Plagiarism
the University”.
policy
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.c
o/index.ph p?
option=com_content&view=article&id=138:
normas- apa&catid=45:referencias-
bibliograficas&Itemid=

3. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric

Activit Individual Collaborati

☒ ☐
y type: Activity ve
Activity
Moment of Un
th Initial ☐ it ☒ Final ☐
e Intermedia
t
evaluatio e:
n
Assesse Performance levels of the individual activity Score
d High score Media score Low score
Aspects
The student The student
The student
makes the does not
Review and makes the
summary in make the
abstrac summary in
English but summary in 60
English taking
does not take English
into account all
into account
stages of the
all stages of
course, the
the course
bibliography and
and / or the
the
bibliography
contributions of
or the
their classmates
contributions
of their
classmates
(up to (up to (up to
60 40 1
points) points) points)
The The
The summary
Writing, summary summary is
has good
spelling presents not clear,
writing, 25
and coherence nor does it
internal
citation but has present
consistency
flaws in internal
and excellent
writing and coherence,
spelling. The
spelling or it does not
citation is
citation have good
made following
use of
APA rules.
spelling,
nor does it
give the
correspondi
ng citations
when they
are
required.
(up to (up to (up to
25 10 1
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assesse Score
d activity
Aspect High Media Low score
score score

N/A N/A N/A

N/A 0
(Up to X (Up to X (Up to X
points) points) points)

N/A N/A N/A

N/A 0
(Up to X (Up to X (Up to X
points) points) points)
Final score 85