Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric -Task 4 - Case analysis of a
document

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias y del

Academic Unit Medio Ambiente
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Environmental Epidemiology
Course Code 358009
Course Type Theoretical Can be yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Numbe
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ r of 3
activity:
weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
2:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Evaluation and Monitoring
activity: 75
Environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: June 16th
activity: May 27th 2019 2019
Competence to develop:
The student from a task that is a reading:
 To recognize causes and effects in health
 To identify epidemiological diseases
 To analyze epidemiological concepts in a scientific article

Topics to develop:
Unit 2: Epidemiological studies in environmental areas and evaluation
of exposure in health effects
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Intermediate - Unit 2: Epidemiological studies in environmental areas
and evaluation of exposure in health effects. Task 4. Case analysis of
a document. Task-based strategy

This activity will have three phases

Before Task 4. Read the bibliography assigned for unit 2 and

pertinent information and the article.
Task 4 Cycle. Individual activity. Case analysis of a document.
After the task 4. The individual analysis document must be delivered
in the evaluation and monitoring environment.

Activities to develop

Task 4
Before Task 4: Read the bibliography assigned for unit 2 and
pertinent information and the article.

Task 4 Cycle. Individual activity. Case analysis of a document

Please answer the following questions

1. What is the cause or environmental problem generated according to

the article and where it is developed.
2. Which diseases can be presented by the handling of Cr according to
the article
3. What is the effect of co-exposure to Cr (VI) and Cr (III)
4. What is the conclusion of the study?
5. Sustenance why this article is relevant for the environmental
epidemiology course.

The answers to the questions should not exceed 3 pages.

Do not forget the bibliography.

After the task 4. The individual analysis document PDF must be

delivered in the evaluation and monitoring environment.
Environmen Knowledge Environment
t for the Collaborative Learning Environment
developme Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
nt
Individual:
Delivery of an individual document in PDF, no greater
than 3 sheets.
Products to
deliver by
Collaborative:
student
N/A

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the There is no planning of activities for collaborative
development work, since the work is exclusively individual.
of
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by
No roles are presented because the work is clearly
the student
individual, without the support of other students
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
responsibilit
No roles are presented because the work is clearly
y for the
individual, without the support of other students
delivery of
products by
students
Always cite the references
American Psychological Association APA rules:
Use of It’s very important for students to take into account
references these rules in order to avoid difficulties with
plagiarism and the consequences will be in the
assessment processes.
 In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

Plagiarism
are:
policy
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

3. Evaluation rubric
 Evaluation rubric

Activity Individual Collaborativ

☒ ☐
type: Activity e Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☐ Intermediat ☒ Final ☐
evaluation e:
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Scor
Aspects High score Media score Low score e
Partially Does not
Fully presents
presents the present the
the cause or the
Presents the environmental cause or the
environmental
cause or the cause or environmental
problem 15
environment problem problem
al problem
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Partially Does not
Presents the
presents the present the
Presents diseases caused
diseases diseases
diseases by Cr
caused by Cr caused by Cr 15
caused by
Cr
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Partially Does not
Presents the
presents the present the
Presents effects of co-
effects of effects of co-
effects of exposure
coexposure exposure 15
co-exposure
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Partially Does not
Presents the
presents the present the
Presents conclusion of
conclusion of conclusion of
conclusion the study
the study the study 15
of the study
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
 partially Does not
Sustains the
supports the support the
Sustains the relevance of the
relevance of relevance of
relevance of article
the article the article 15
the article
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Scor
activity
Aspect e
High score Media score Low score

N/A N/A N/A

N/A 0
(Up to X (Up to X (Up to X
points) points) points)

N/A N/A N/A

N/A 0
(Up to X (Up to X (Up to X
points) points) points)
Final score 75