Analysis of the Assessment of skills and their application into a Learning Management System. A case study

Abstract

Internationally, the competence-based approach has been adopted at all levels of education seeking to improve the quality of education. However, there are still gaps in the process, especially in evaluation, since the methodological change necessary to implement it properly has not been achieved. The goal of this paper is to find out how the competency evaluation in a university is carried out, starting from the notion of competence and the tools of a Learning Management System that have been successfully used to carry out this process. Subsequently, we describe the preliminary results of a diagnosis applied to teachers of the Autonomous University of Yucatan. The results corroborate that there are few tools that are used more frequently and that there is a general lack of knowledge about the potential benefits that these have for the evaluation of generic competences. Finally, some solutions are proposed for assist to the university teacher during the performance of his / her evaluation function under the competencies approach.