Design of Rubrics for the Evaluation of Research Work in the Capstone Project Subject of an Electronic Engineering Program

This article presents the design of eight rubrics aimed at progressively assessing research work in a Capstone Project course, aiming to increase the number of thesis projects in the Electronic Engineering program at Ricardo Palma University, due to the limited number of defended theses. These rubrics focused on evaluating the progress of the final report writing and the presentation of the implementation, operation, and/or simulation in software and/or hardware of the research work, whether in industrial, commercial, or other applications. Indicators such as oral presentation, achievement of objectives, engineering standards, limitations, grammar, among others, were considered. Likewise, this design used the university's own pedagogical model to contribute to the direct measurement of student outcomes, when the program was evaluated by two accreditation agencies. As a result of the use of the rubrics, students obtained an average grade with a positive trend in the last four years.