Abstract:
PBL is a methodology that requires students working in teams. Based on the Agile philosophy, this article presents a procedure (and its tools) to assess individuals in a team based on, not only the final project, but on the process. Students are asked to fix SMART objectives, tasks, dates and people in charge for each one and include it in the project status table. Students make weekly follow up meetings to share and review information, results and project process. Portfolio including the meetings minutes, peer and self-assessment of teamwork and project status table provides teachers a rich information to evaluate students and give them feedback. This iterative process of continuous review and short-design time frames helps the team to quickly adapt the projects and the teachers to detect team problems. We propose two rubrics: one to assess individually teamwork using a peer and self-assessment; another to evaluate learning outcomes in each the delivery, both individually and within the team. Teachers’ and students' perceptions while using this Agile methodology have been collected from a qualitative approach. Proposed rubrics along the whole process give the required feedback to teachers and s...