Assessment Instrument Basic Skills (IACoBá) which is applied so online, was created by Joan Gracia Osuna (with the technical collaboration of Alfonso Darriba Garcia and Ignacio Turmo Iglesias) and is a modern tool practical, scientifically valid, designed from the teaching experience that allows to assess the skills levels of all students (between 11-13 years old evolutionary).
Its usefulness, its applicative ease, abundance of data provided and the different objectives that can be achieved with this data, make it an instrument well educationally valued.
WHAT IS IACOBÀ?
Is a virtual tool to assess students in a series of competitions, to give information professionals education levels with which students leave primary or reach high school. IACoBà has been designed from the educational experience of teachers for teachers, with the aim of minimizing the effort and maximize the information and usefulness of the data.
To the organization of each new course, mainly professionals ESO raised the possibility of knowing the level of skills that students have acquired in the previous stage to structure the grouping of students of 1, to give answers tailored to their educational needs and improving attention to diversity.
HOW IS STRUCTURED?
IACoBà is structured following the definition of Basic Skills Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya for Basic Education. Core competencies are in the center of the teaching-learning (to program, to evaluate and rate to determine the educational needs … and even to assess the levels of success / failure at school) but we have few standardized resources we help evaluate them.
WHAT WILL I GET WITH DATA EVALUATION?
IACoBà fast and accurate on the level with students in the skills assessed data are obtained. This information is available at all times, even when they have not yet completed testing. We encourage teachers to meet IACoBá as check their usefulness and ease applicative, the abundance of data provided and the different objectives that can be achieved with this data, so it has become an instrument well educationally valued.
HOW CAN I EVALUATE MY STUDENTS?
Can assess students individually or collectively. No special technical or specialist to be assessed academic skills are required fields. Students need your school or institution have a computer with broadband Internet.
WHAT TESTS IACOBÀ CONTAIN?
IACoBà is organized in 7 different tests corresponding to different skills. Each of these tests consists of a number of references that are listed below:
- Test 1. Competition: linguistic and audiovisual Communicative (8 referents) Competition
- Test 2. Mathematics (11 references)
- Test 3. Competition: Interaction with the physical world (9 referents)
- Test 4. Competition: learning to learn (11 references)
- Test 5. Competition: Autonomy and personal initiative (12 references)
- Test 6. Competition: Social and citizen (12 references)
- Test 7. Competition: Self-Test and coexistence relationship (20 references)
Each of these 83 reference is assessed by four different exercises (a, b, c and d).
Custom assessments can be made, it is not necessary to assess students of all IACoBà tests since the evaluation is fully configurable. You can choose tests that will include evaluation as well as the order to go.
You can contact us for provide you more information or to contract our service. And you can check all information about the tests, results, etc. in the corresponding section of this portal (www.iacoba.com).