Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Didactics of Social Science
Code: 551034

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 – Understanding Social Sciences

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 115 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, June The activity ends on: Tuesday, June 29,
17, 2021 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To explore different theoretical concepts useful for the contextualization of the Social
Science as a teaching resource.

The activity consists of:

Collaboratively, create an Online presentation of different Social Science fields, to

develop it, follow these steps:

Step 1: From the book “Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction” by Nancy
Cartwright, & Eleonora Montuschi that you will find in Unit 1 suggested bibliographic
references. From the articles presented in Chapters 1 and 2 of the book, select two
you would like to read and analyze.

Step 2: Post in the collaborative the names of your selected articles to avoid
repetition.

Step 3: Read the selected articles and from each one write a Summary. Consider the
following recommendations:

• It should be around 1/3 of the original text.

• Your summaries should present only the major ideas, not the minor ones.
• Quotes are possible if they are not abused.
• It should state the writer's intention throughout the summary.

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 • The text should be paraphrased to avoid plagiarism.
• The number of paragraphs should be limited

Post the summaries in the collaborative forum for your classmates to read and
comment on, at least two weeks before the due date for this task.

Step 4: Critically read your classmates’ summaries and comment on at least one of
the summaries from each one. To keep your comments critical and relevant, based
on the summary, you can answer questions such as:

• Does the summary include the identification information?

• Do I get the main idea from it? What is the main idea?
• Which field of social sciences is it related to?
• Is the summary logically structured?
• Does it contain any English misuse of any kind?

Step 5: Collaboratively present all the summaries in an online presentation. For this,
you can use any tool preferred by the collaborative group (among the options: Prezzi,
Canva, Genially, or PPT. on Drive)

For the creation of the Collaborative presentation consider the following

recommendations:

• Presentations should include only the most representative information from

each of the summaries presented by the collaborative group members.
• Slides should not contain a big number of words on each one.
• The slides should display images that are related to the information on each of
them.
• Remember that the link should be open for public display.
• It must evidence the main information from the summaries, should be
presented in an organized, creatively, and logically structured way.

Step 6: Put together all the group participants’ summaries in a PDF document,
including in this the public link to the presentation and a Reference page following
APA style.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

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Periodically check the News forum to keep updated regarding the course and the
program latest information.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Check the Bibliographical references suggested for the Unit 1. Download the activity
guide for this task. Actively participate in the collaborative forum posting the
requested evidence of individual work on time and participate in the discussion
actively regarding the others’ work.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Deliver a single document compiling all the group’s task.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Present the selection of the two articles, two summaries from the selected articles
and comments on the other members summaries.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

A PDF. document with all of the participant students’ information on the cover page,
that contains all of the member’s summaries and a public link to the collaborative
presentation from the information summarized by all the members of the
collaborative group.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

Individually, each group member has to post two summaries (one bye each article
read) on time for the rest of the group to be able to read and comment on them.
The summaries must be written according to the given guidelines.

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

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• In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.

• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

• Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 115 points
First evaluation High level: The student posts two summaries. The named
criterion: summaries contain the needed information related to the original
selected articles and are written taking into account the
Present two well instructions given in the activity guide. These are posted in the
written and collaborative forum at least one and a half week before the task’s
supported due date.
summaries that If your work is at this level, you can get between 30 points
include the relevant and 40 points
information from
Average level: The student posts only one summary. Or it
the selected texts.
partially contains the needed information related to the original
This criterion selected articles or is not written considering the instructions
represents 40 given in the activity guide. due date. If your work is at this
points of the total level, you can get between 10 points and 29 points
of 115 points of
the activity. Low level: There is no evidence of the individual posting of the
summaries in the collaborative forum.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 9 points.
Second evaluation High level: There is evidence of forum participation
criterion: commenting topic-centered and relevant information regarding
at least one of the summaries presented by all the group
Give relevant and participants.
topic centred forum If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
participation. and 20 points

Average level: There is evidence of forum participation, but

This criterion the comments are not relevant, and the student does not
represents 20 comment at least one of the summaries presented by all the
points of the total group participants.
of 115 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
the activity. and 14 points

Low level: There is no evidence of forum participation.

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points
Third evaluation High level: The Presentation of the summaries is developed in
criterion: an online platform is creative, contains all the requested
information in a relevant and organized way. The presentation
Deliver an aesthetic is well organized, colorful, there is evidence of well English
and creative structures in terms of grammar and writing style.
presentation of the If your work is at this level, you can get between 20 points
Online Magazine. and 40 points

Average level: The Presentation of the summaries is developed

This criterion in an online platform is creative, does not contain all the
represents 40 requested information in a relevant and organized way. The
points of the total presentation is well organized, colorful, there is evidence of
of 115 points of lacking English structures in terms of grammar and writing style.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 29 points

Low level: The presentation is not creative, presents a big

amount of grammar, spelling, and style. It is not presented
aesthetically.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 9 points
Fourth evaluation High level: There is only one PDF document delivered in the
criterion: Evaluation Environment by all the group members. The
document contains Two summaries by each of the group
Delivery a final members, all the summaries are well written in terms of content,
document according grammar, style, and spelling; and a public link that leads the
to the given reader to the online presentation of the summaries.
instructions. If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 15 points
This criterion
represents 15 Average level: There is only one PDF document delivered in
points of the total the Evaluation Environment by all the group members. The
of 115 points of document contains the summaries by each of the group
the activity. members, there is evidence of mistakes in terms of content,
grammar, style, and spelling; and/or the link that leads the
reader to the online presentation of the summaries is not public
for the tutor to review on.

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If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and 9 points

Low level: There is no evidence of final document delivery in

the Evaluation Environment.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4
points and 0 points