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Mundet, L. B. & Peña Muñoz, J. M. (2021). Percepción de competencias en las prácticas profesionalizantes e Job placement del Técnico en Redacción de Textos. MLS - Educational Research (MLSER) , 5(2), 59-72. Doi: 10.29314/mlser.v5i2.531.

IDENTIFICATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF GENERIC COMPETENCES IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE MIXED AND NON-SCHOOL DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE MÉXICO

Ricardo Castro Núñez
Universidad del Valle (Mexico)
ricardo.castronu@hotmail.com · https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7600-031X

María de los Ángeles Barahona Romero
Universidad del Valle (Mexico)
angelesbarahonamadero@gmail.com · https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2934-5099

Receipt date: 16/10/2022 / Revision date: 02/12/2022 / Acceptance date: 30/06/2022

Abstract. The general objective of this research was to identify, implement and evaluate the new generic competences by 2025-2030, within the framework of the general curricular update of the plans and degree programs in mixed and non-school modality of the Universidad del Valle de México. The research design is based on the action research model, providing information that guides decision-making and change processes. The research approach was qualitative in conjunction with quantitative research. The sample data were the students enrolled in the new curricular model per school year in the mixed and non-school modality during the 2020 and 2021 period, as a result of the development of work to identify the generic competences to be innovated, derived from internal educational research and supported by an external consulting group that carried out interviews and group participatory techniques, the results of which allowed the redesign of the generic competencies for the new institutional Educational Model that are part of the new curricular model; accompanied by an innovative model of instructional design for the operation of the subjects 100% online, developing rubrics to evaluate the achievement of the mastery levels of the proposed competencies. In conclusion, the implementation and operation of a new curricular model has been achieved with new and innovative generic competencies that will strengthen the graduation profile of students who graduated in the second half of this decade.

keywords: curriculum, professional skills, lifelong learning.


IDENTIFICACIÓN, IMPLEMENTACIÓN Y EVALUACIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS GENÉRICAS EN EL CURRÍCULO DE LAS LICENCIATURA MIXTA Y NO ESCOLARIZADA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE MÉXICO

Resumen. El objetivo general de esta investigación fue identificar, implementar y evaluar las nuevas competencias genéricas hacia el 2025–2030, dentro del marco de la actualización general curricular de los planes y programas de licenciatura en modalidad mixta y no escolarizada de la Universidad del Valle de México. El diseño de la investigación se basa en modelo de investigación acción, aportando información que guíe la toma de decisiones y los procesos de cambio. El enfoque de la investigación fue cualitativo en conjunto con la investigación cuantitativa. Los datos muestrales fueron los alumnos inscritos en nuevo modelo curricular por ciclo escolar en la modalidad mixta y no escolarizada durante el periodo 2020 y 2021, como resultado del desarrollo de trabajo de identificación de las competencias genéricas a innovar, derivadas de una investigación educativa interna y apoyados con un grupo consultor externo que llevó a cabo entrevistas y técnicas participativas grupales, cuyos resultados permitieron el rediseño de las competencias genéricas para el nuevo Modelo Educativo institucional que forman parte del nuevo modelo curricular; acompañadas con un innovador modelo de diseño instruccional para la operación de las asignaturas 100% en línea, desarrollando rúbricas para evaluar el logro de los niveles de dominio de las competencias propuestas. Como conclusión, se ha logrado la implementación y operación de un nuevo modelo curricular con nuevas e innovadoras competencias genéricas que fortalecerán el perfil de egreso de los estudiantes egresados en la segunda mitad de esta década.

Palabras clave: currículo, habilidades profesionales, competencias para toda la vida.


Introduction

The phenomenon of generic competencies, also known as soft competencies or in the English term, long life learning , have taken great relevance since the beginning of the century, because although technological advances have created an endless need for technical disciplinary competencies with great changes, there are competencies that regardless of these technological advances, remain constant in their general definitions, but adapted in organizations to the great challenges of the future: leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, digital literacy and others have currently taken on great relevance.

What is important about these competencies is that by developing them, they not only meet labor needs, but also act in the personal spheres of individuals, both in intrapersonal situations and in family and social situations, improving the individual as a person and, as a consequence, improving the society in which he/she lives.

It is here where universities, in addition to ensuring the development of basic or disciplinary competencies, are also committed to developing generic competencies in their students in order to fully form the graduate in their graduate profile of the study plans that will allow them to be more competitive in the personal, social and labor spheres.

This approach to this type of competencies has had great moments at the beginning of this century with the work of Tuning Europe or in the second decade of this century with the work of Tuning Latin America, which have tried to linearize and standardize the frame of reference of generic competencies, up to the interest of researchers and academics in this phenomenon, this is the case of the work of Villa and Poblete or Díaz Barriga in Mexico, great exponents of the available research, not only in the conceptual part, but in an integral way, including the management and evaluation of competencies.

This research work, has gone hand in hand with the general updating of the undergraduate curricula at the Universidad del Valle de México, allowing to clarify step by step the paths to follow for the curricular redesign from the planning of the educational project during 2019 to achieve the operation and evaluation of the professional skills subjects that contain the generic competencies mentioned during 2020 and 2021.

In this case and due to the application of the research at the Universidad del Valle de México, the methodology to be used followed the principles of qualitative and quantitative research methodology; qualitative from the vision of working with the methodology of action research and through collaborative group sessions along with the analysis of internal and external documents and quantitative, by analyzing the information generated by the learning platforms called LMS, in this case Blackboard SaaS, which generates a series of data automatically that can be analyzed through general tools such as excel to more sophisticated software.

The starting constraints were the time in which curricular changes are implemented in private educational institutions, the pandemic of COVID 19 that came to generate new challenges since 2020 and that apparently will leave new educational realities, the changes in the political environment in Mexico that impacted the changes also in the Ministry of Public Education and in the publication of a new General Law of Higher Education that will surely also modify the agreements 17/11/17 and 18/18/18 under which the actions of higher education institutions were alienated and finally, the speed with which technological change is advancing in humanity where the most constant thing is change itself.


Objectives

The general objective of this research was to identify, implement and evaluate the new generic competencies towards 2025-2030, within the framework of the general curricular update of the undergraduate plans and programs in mixed and non-school-based modality at the Universidad del Valle de México.

Specific objectives:

Propose the generic competencies evaluation model according to the reality and characteristics of the institution


Method

For this research, from its preponderant qualitative characteristic, the design called action research has been selected; a description of this design by Sandín (2003) is given below.

The research approach is mixed, qualitative because it contains the following characteristics (Hernandez, Fernandez and Baptista, 2010): explores phenomena in depth; it is basically conducted in natural environments; meanings are extracted from the data; it is not based entirely on statistics and qualitative because it states hypotheses, dependent and independent variables contrasting hypotheses.

The nature of the study will be predominantly qualitative, based on two strategies: the first, documentary analysis of the main future trends related to competencies, and the second strategy will be to analyze the current status of the subject nationally and internationally, which will be carried out by an external consulting group in order to avoid a possible bias derived from the so-called workshop blindness. In general, calls were made with students and employers in Mexico City as a representative entity of the national educational offer, and digital diaries were made with students in Guadalajara and Monterrey. In addition, two working sessions were held with focus groups, to which the most influential and experienced academics in the institution were invited. Finally, it was complemented with the ethnographic methodology of surveys in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara and focus groups with applicants and parents.

For the quantitative data, we intend to use statistics as a tool to cross-reference the information variables generated by the reports generated by the learning platform called Blackboard and also the information generated by the automated rubrics that will be designed in the instructional design of the corresponding online course.

Finally, within the bibliographic method, the documentary analysis technique will be used and as an instrument the design of tables and matrices will be used to observe and clarify the trends related to generic competencies.

The process is inductive, because particular phenomena are analyzed and investigated to obtain general conclusions; recurrent, since the curriculum design cycle is a continuum with several stages within the process; it analyzes multiple subjective realities; it has no linear sequence, because, during the research itself, new situations are encountered that lead to rethinking the reality that was perceived at the beginning, returning or advancing along the initial path indicated or even adapting new investigative paths.

The scope of the research will be descriptive, according to its characteristics, it is mentioned (Hernández, 2010) that these studies seek to specify the properties, characteristics and profiles of people, groups, communities, processes, objects or any other phenomenon that is subjected to analysis.

The working hypothesis will be the updating of the subjects of the curricular area of professional skills will comprehensively develop the generic competencies for the graduation of students in blended and non-school-based programs that are considered necessary for the present decade.

The population will consider the enrolled students of the mixed and non-schooled bachelor's degrees at the Universidad del Valle de México, as a reference point to 2020-2021, we have the following data:

The sampling element are students of the Universidad del Valle de México who are enrolled in the undergraduate level, the type of sampling will be probabilistic and the sample will be selected by sampling units (Hernandez, Fernandez, and Baptista, 2010) called groups or sections in which are listed the students enrolled in a mixed or non-school bachelor's degree of the new UVM 2020 model in the courses corresponding to subjects of the curricular area of professional skills in the non-school and mixed modality in a given school cycle in Module A in our educational platform.

In this sense, the minimum sample presents an acceptable error of 5%, taking into account that we do not have the estimated percentage of the previous sample, taking 50%; in addition, a confidence level of 95% is desired.


Results

Determination of cross-cutting generic competencies for all undergraduate curricula in mixed and non-school modalities

Thirteen generic competencies of the general graduate profile of UVM students were determined. The following is a conceptualization of each of the generic competencies that will be part of the new UVM 2021 Educational Model:

  1. Digital literacy
  2. Innovation
  3. Creative thinking
  4. Collaborative work
  5. Diversity and Interculturality
  6. Social problem solving
  7. Ethical and social commitment
  8. Decision making
  9. Entrepreneurship
  10. Communication
  11. Leadership
  12. Autonomy for learning
  13. Research

All generic competencies are part of the update of the new UVM 2021 Educational Model (see Figure 1):

Figure 1
Generic competencies in the new Educational Model UVM 2021

Note. Taken from Modelo Educativo 2021, Universidad del Valle de México.

Insertion of innovative generic competencies into the new curricular model through the curricular area of professional skills

Six of the nine subjects, called Ilab UVM, are presented below (see Figure 2).

Figure 2
Ilab UVM subjects and their agile-like methodologies and tools

Note. Taken from Modelo Educativo 2021, Universidad del Valle de México.

Subsequently, they were inserted in each of the plans in series from the second to the seventh cycle, as shown in a curriculum map (see Figure 3).

Figure 3
Curriculum Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, mixed modality

Note. Taken from the institutional WEB page of the Universidad del Valle de México https://uvm.mx/oferta-academica/licenciaturas-ingenierias/negocios/licenciatura-en-administracion.

The procedures were carried out before the Ministry of Public Education to obtain the Official Student Records of Validity and commercial materials were developed for the new model (see Figure 4) were developed (see Figure 4).

Figure 4
Institutional Video new curricular model UVM (2020)

Note. Taken from the institutional WEB page of the Universidad del Valle de México https://uvm.mx/la-uvm/nuevo-modelo-educativo.

Innovation in the curricular design of subjects Ilab UVM

The instructional design of the online subjects was carried out by the team of UVM content designers and the academic partner Ilab, with the purpose of inserting the previously established teaching methodologies and gathering the digital resources to achieve the learning objective of each subject. (See figure 5).

Figure 5
Integration of the 6 Ilab UVM professional skills courses

Note. taken from Castro, R. (2021). Direction of Curricular Design and Innovation, Universidad del Valle de México, Mexico City.

The following is an example of one of the thirteen instructional designs designed to strengthen didactics during the teaching of Ilab UVM subjects (See Figure 6):

Figure 6
Subject 1 Ilab UVM Empathy to Solve

Note. taken from documents in the educational platform of the Universidad del Valle de México.

Each of the six subjects was developed from an instructional model that wanted to be innovative and disruptive, for example, in the first subject called. In the initial part of the course he is questioned about his life and career expectations and even if the career he has chosen is really the one that will lead him to be an agent of social change in the future (see Figure 7).

Figure 7
Introduction to the course Empathy to Solve Ilab UVM

Note: taken from elements of Instructional Design for online courses Ilab UVM (2020). Universidad del Valle de México. Mexico City.

Data analysis 2020-2021 Ilab subjects

The following are the results related to the number of students enrolled since the implementation of the subjects of the new curricular model in the Ilab UVM subjects, according to the total number of students from 2020 to 2021 according to their curricular progress. Starting in C1 2020, the first UVM I lab students began with the subject Empathy to Solve, and as the four-month cycles progressed, they increased geometrically until reaching the sixth cycle in which all 6 subjects are already operating and where the graph shows that the first subject Empathy to Solve represents 48% of the total enrollment (see Table 1).

Table 1
Total number of students and % Cycle 1 2020 and Cycle 3 2021

SUBJECT REGISTRATION %
Empathy to solve 6,521 48%
Solve for change 3,699 28%
Transforming for impact 1,942 14%
Design for sharing 736 5%
Empathy to solve 284 2%
Integrating for massification 259 2%
Solve to scale 6 0%
Grand total 13,447 100%

Note: taken from Blackboard platform reports. Universidad del Valle de México.

The implementation was a challenge due to the number of students enrolled in the subjects, more than 13,000 students have been enrolled, but when the time comes for the new curricular model to mature we will be talking about around 100,000 students per year (see Figure 8).

Figure 8
Total number of students per four-month cycles Cycle 1 2020 and Cycle 3 2021

It is important to determine the students enrolled in each study cycle for each subject, in order to know by program when the results of the competency assessment are obtained, which curriculum is in the first places and which curriculum needs to be improved (see Table 2).

Table 2
Enrollment per four-month cycle by subject C1 2020 and C3 2021

SUBJECT ILAB UVM ENROLLMENT BY CYCLE
Empathy to solve 652
2020 C1 64
2020 C2 290
2020 C3 499
2021 C1 2,008
2021 C2 1,785
2021 C3 1,875
Solve for change 3,699
2020 C2 51
2020 C3 381
2021 C1 586
2021 C2 1,291
2021 C3 1,390
Transforming for impact 1,942
2020 C3 18
2021 C1 315
2021 C2 524
2021 C3 1,085
Design for sharing 736
2021 C1 14
2021 C2 272
2021 C3 450
Empathy to solve 284
2020 C2 284
Integrating for massification 259
2021 C2 12
2021 C3 247
Solve to scale 6
2021 C3 6
Grand total 13,447

Note. taken from Blackboard platform reports. Universidad del Valle de México. Mexico City

It is important to determine the average final and total grade for each of the 6 Ilab UVM subjects in each of the campuses, in order to analyze any significant differences, as well as in due course to be able to go into more detail as a final average grade per cycle and analyze the reason for these possible variations in order to elaborate the corresponding corrections, for example, details in the instructional design of the subject or teacher training (see Table 3).

Table 3
Final grade by program of studies by subject of the four-month cycle Cycle 1 2020 to Cycle 3 2022

Subject Final rating
Integrating for massification 9.61
Design for sharing 9.48
Solve to scale 9.46
Transforming for impact 9.40
Empathy to solve 9.40
Solve for change 9.17
Empathy to solve 9.08
Grand total 9.19

Note. taken from Blackboard platform reports. Universidad del Valle de México.

Taking into account two important variables: total enrollment and final grade, using the R2 coefficient to measure the strong or weak correlation between these two data and according to the result of 0.83, they have a strong positive correlation, since the positive limit is from 0 to 1, which means that the result of the evaluation depends strongly on the number of total students enrolled. Likewise, a standard deviation analysis was performed between the final grade of the 6 subjects, with a minimum standard deviation, which leads us to reliable results of more than thirteen thousand data with a variability index (see Table 4).

Table 4
Subject with enrollment and final grade, including correlation coefficient and standard deviation of total grades

SUBJECTS TOTAL ENROLLMENT FINAL GRADE
Empathy to solve 6,521 9.08
Solve for change 3,699 9.17
Transforming for impact 1,942 9.40
Design for sharing 736 9.48
Empathy to solve 284 9.40
Integrating for massification 259 9.61
Solve to scale 6 9.46
Grand total 13,447 9.19
Coefficient R2 0.836383668
Standard deviation 0.187323537

Implementation of curricular evaluation model and generic competencies of professional skills subjects new UVM model

A. Proposed updated curriculum evaluation plan

To design an instrument to internally evaluate the curricular design of the curricula in force at Universidad del Valle de México in order to guide decision making to maintain, restructure or replace the components of the curricular system, guaranteeing the educational quality of its operation and orienting them towards academic excellence.

B. Proposals for the implementation of an evaluation of generic competencies

Three evaluation instruments are proposed, which are detailed below and are mainly based on the work of Villa and Poblete (Poblete and Sanchez, 2011) in their research work related to the evaluation of generic competencies, but these proposals are specified according to the institution's own reality, making the corresponding adjustments in each of the generic competencies, their definitions, their levels of mastery and their performance indicators

1. Competency-focused learning assessment questionnaire

This questionnaire replaces the initial idea of interviews, to provide a systematic response on learning assessment, its approach and direction.

Students using an automated questionnaire designed with a rubric-type evaluation instrument with feedback on their answers in the first and last week of classes must:

The following is an example of the design of the questionnaire to assess collaborative work competency from the work of Villa and Poblete (Poblete and Sanchez, 2011):

Definition of collaborative work competency:

Integrate and collaborate actively in the achievement of common objectives with other people, areas and organizations.

Levels of mastery:

  1. Actively participate and collaborate in team tasks and foster trust, cordiality and joint task orientation.
  2. Contribute to the consolidation and development of the team, favoring communication, balanced distribution of tasks, internal climate and cohesion.
  3. Lead work groups, ensuring the integration of members and their orientation to high performance.

Performance indicators:

  1. Performs the tasks assigned to him/her within the group within the required deadlines
  2. Participates actively in the team's meeting spaces, sharing information, knowledge and experiences
  3. Collaborates in the definition, organization and distribution of group tasks
  4. It is oriented to the achievement of agreements and common objects and is committed to them
  5. Takes into account the points of view of others and provides constructive feedback

Procedure:

A classification of competencies assigned to each subject will be made. In the case of Collaborative Work, for the first domain level "Participate and collaborate actively in team tasks and foster trust, cordiality and joint task orientation", it is assigned to the subject "Integrate to massify".

The student will know, from the beginning of the course, the two to five indicators that are inserted in the design of the evaluation rubric, the basis for the questionnaire to be answered in blackboard. For example, if indicators 1, 2 and 4 were selected, these will be the ones included in the questionnaire.

In the questionnaire, questions are elaborated around the indicators in order to obtain evidence on their performance. These questions will have according to their answers a message and orientation for the final result. Automated responses in BB may suggest additional questions that will help explore the scope of the corresponding indicator.

Figure 9
Indicators of teamwork competence

Note. taken from Villa Sánchez, A., and Poblete Ruiz, M. (2011). Evaluation of generic competencies: principles, opportunities and limitations. Bordon. Revista De Pedagogía, 63(1), 147-170. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/BORDON/article/view/28910

Figure 10
Indicators of teamwork competence

Note. Taken from Villa Sánchez, A., and Poblete Ruiz, M. (2011). Evaluation of generic competencies: principles, opportunities and limitations. Bordon. Revista De Pedagogía, 63(1), 147-170. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/BORDON/article/view/28910.

Scale of results

If it is desired to approximate the evaluation to the traditional criteria (from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 10) the general evaluation for all types of indicators can be as follows:

2. Automated competency-based learning assessment interview integrated in the 8th cycle

An automated interview will be carried out by means of an integration of all the evaluation rubrics of all the generic competencies to be evaluated.

The student should have developed his/her generic competencies not only in the professional skills subjects from 2 to 7 cycles, but also in basic and disciplinary subjects from 1 to 8 cycles, so that this evaluation would seek evidence of the level of achievement of the competencies at the end of his/her career.

3. Portfolio of evidence

The portfolio of competences that the student must present in order to pass the final thesis contains two parts: the first one will contain the portfolio report and the second one will include the evidences represented by the material that documents the different levels of achievement of the competences argued in the report

Implementation of automated rubrics to assess the generic competencies of the professional skills curricular area

For this article, an example of one of the 13 developed rubrics that will be found in an automated way in the Blackboard platform and which will be assigned to each of the subjects that develop this competency will be taken

Digital literacy

Table 5
A1 Digital Literacy Rubric

MASTERY LEVELS INDICATORS DESCRIPTORS
1 2 3 4 5
Second level of mastery: Plan consultations in digital libraries and specialized databases based on criteria that allow them to refine the selection and processing of resources extracted from the Internet, in order to develop and share the requested task through the educational platforms at their disposal. Performs consultations in digital libraries and specialized databases. Consult and perform basic searches in digital libraries. Locates specific information on Internet sites as a supplement to research in print sources. Search for information resources based on their format: document, image, web page, video. Performs queries in specialized databases. Selects the information obtained based on its relevance, timeliness and reliability of the source, and cites information and resources extracted from the Internet.
Use the communication tools (chat, messaging, teamwork) of Teams and Blackboard. Recognizes the communication tools available in Teams and Blackboard. Identifies publications and announcements about assignments during the course of the assignment. Identifies channels (publications, files, notepads, tasks) within a team for the organization of tasks. He shares files related to the subject and uses the channels for the management of his assignments. Create teams within Teams and communicate with colleagues via private message in Blackboard
Use the package to process information. Selects page view modes.

Save the file in a different format from the source.

Insert special characters and graphic objects, Get to apply design to tables: colors, styles and alignment. Adding and omitting words from the dictionary.
Performs editing of images, audio and/or video files and identifies the characteristics that distinguish video, audio and image files. Identifies image, audio and video formats. Identifies and uses image banks, audio, video files. Cite the digital sources from which the images, audios and/or video files are extracted. Edit images, audio and/or video files. Save an image, audio, and/or video file in a format other than the source format.
Uses educational platforms to implement their learning activities.

Recognizes the characteristics of the various workspaces in Teams and Blackboard, as well as UVM Portico.

Locate, download and use resources and materials in Teams Blackboard and Portico UVM. Participate in discussion forums and work in Teams and Blackboard. Use the communication tools of the Teams and Blackboard platforms. Get to send automated tasks and reply with specific features, such as number of attempts

Note: taken from the Curricular and Instructional Design Manual 2021 Universidad del Valle de México.

Table 6
Competencies vs. levels of mastery

COMPETENCY FIRST LEVEL OF MASTERY SECOND LEVEL OF MASTERY THIRD LEVEL OF MASTERY
Digital Literacy x
Innovation x
Creative Thinking x
Collaborative work x
Diversity and Interculturality x
Social problem solving x
Ethical and social commitment x
Decision making x
Entrepreneurship x
Communication x
Leadership x
Research x

Figure 11
Obverse side of the certificate that will be awarded to students upon completion of the sixth course Ilab UVM

Figure 12
Reverse side of the certificate that will be awarded to students upon completion of the sixth course Ilab UVM

Figure 13
Generic competency Leadership to be assessed within the subject of Ilab UVM Solve to scale

Figure 14
Levels of mastery of the Leadership competency to be developed within the Ilab UVM course Solve to scale

Figure 15
Example of rubric for the generic competency Leadership to be assessed within the Ilab UVM course Solve to scale

Figure 16
Scale to evaluate the generic competency Leadership that will be evaluated within the Ilab UVM subject Resolve to scale

Figure 17
Example of the automated rubric integrated in Blackboard to assess generic competency Leadership to be assessed within the Ilab UVM course Solve to scale

Figure 18
Message that automatically appears to the student in Blackboard as a result of their level 0 assessment of the generic competency Leadership that will be assessed within the Ilab UVM course Resolve to scale

Figure 19
Message that automatically appears to the student in Blackboard as a result of their intermediate level assessment and progression of the generic competency Leadership that will be assessed within the Ilab UVM course Resolve to scale

Figure 20
Message that automatically appears to the student in Blackboard as a result of their level 3 assessment and completion of the generic competency Leadership that will be assessed within the Ilab UVM course Resolve to Scale.


Discussion and conclusions

The generic competencies that were considered in the update of the Educational Model 2021 of the Universidad del Valle de México were identified and implemented within the curricular innovation within the curricular area of professional skills transversal to all degree plans

Four learning methodologies and agile tools were included for each subject, with a design to be taught on the Blackboard educational platform, with an innovative instructional design that allows the achievement of the levels of mastery of the generic competencies initially proposed for 13,000 students and is expected to reach a total of 100,000 students per year in the coming years, strengthening the development of the generic competencies developed in each subject, evaluating them for their control and updating process and contributing to the strengthening of the graduate profile of the graduates in each study plan

In relation to academic quality and control, a proposal was developed for a comprehensive evaluation system of the generic competencies to be developed in the student, consisting of evaluations for each subject and their levels of mastery to be developed, a portfolio of evidence of integrative products of knowledge, skills and attitudes and a comprehensive exit exam that identifies the level achieved in each of the 13 updated competencies of the UVM 2021 Educational Model.

With regard to the specific objectives, the generic competencies of the new curriculum model were determined, taking into account different public and private organizations and extensive documentary research related to the subject, supported by an external consulting group

In addition, the results of the diagnosis of the current curriculum were analyzed and contrasted with the proposed generic competencies of the future

Likewise, the generic competencies were implemented in cross-cutting subjects in the curriculum map of the programs to be updated and the instructional design was made according to the non-school-based teaching modality of the cross-cutting subjects of generic competencies.

In addition, a generic competency evaluation model was established for the student. Additionally, 13 rubrics were designed to be placed in the previously defined subjects that are aligned to the performance indicators developed for each generic competency.

Finally, a strategy was developed for the following cycles to evaluate each of the generic competencies in their respective levels of mastery, providing concrete results of this implementation and helping to make corrective decisions.

The limitations of this work were the dynamics with which the curriculum design is developed and the complexity of an institution with so many campuses, modalities and study plans, under the operation of communication and learning platforms such as Teams or Blackboard.


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