The ability of analysis in the training of social workers: what is it? How is the training? And how it is evaluated? Designing a rubric for assessment of competencies of analysis in the Bachelor of Social Work

Abstract

In this article we present assessment tool (rubric) for the acquisition of specific competence on analytical thinking in social work training. This tool can be applied to the topics of various areas and courses of the Degree of Social Work. We describe the methodological process and collaborative approach to the construction of the instrument, which has been driven by the Innovative Teaching Group Trans @ net: transdisciplinarity and learning in social work from the University of Barcelona. This project has enabled progress to teachers in their conceptualization and reduces the disparity of evaluation criteria used initially. Moreover, this has allowed offering a common visibility to students sharing the same instrument between different subjects and courses coeval. It has also encouraged the mainstreaming when applied to materials of different areas of knowledge and to define interim applicability conditions as: linking learning activities accompanying the acquisition, application exercises focused specifically or prominently in the development of this competition. It’s necessary to work previously with students understanding of instrument (the relations among rubric items) and the context of each subject and proposed exercise.