PIMECOE: A project for self-diagnosis of the student outcome "effective communication" and its improvement through a self-formative itinerary

[EN] Since the breakthrough of student outcomes in the university environment, "Effective Communication" is one of the most studied in Bachelor's degrees and Master's subjects. An inefficient communication can lead to misinterpretations and wrong conclusions. Therefore, it is a very important competence both in the university and in the business field. The student / graduate must know how to communicate effectively, both orally and writing, appropriately using the necessary resources and adapting to the characteristics of the situation and the audience. Despite its importance, the disparity in the domain of the competence by the students makes it difficult to work in the classroom through collective activities. This paper presents the PIMECOE, an Innovation and Educational Improvement Project. This project aims to work on the student outcome "Effective Communication". It focuses specifically on oral communication, and to work on it, it proposes to assess the level of initial proficiency of oral communication through self-diagnosis tools. This allows the student to detect their weaknesses and strengths in the domain of the competence. Likewise, the project aims to develop a self-formative itinerary for students, which includes learning activities that improve the domain level of the competence. In this way, first, students will have an assessment of their level of competence through a selfdiagnostic survey; and second, will have access to a series of activities that will allow him to develop the competence based on the results obtained in the self-diagnosis. This work has been developed within the research project called ¿Autodiagnóstico del nivel de dominio inicial de la competencia transversal ¿Comunicación Efectiva¿ y su mejora a través de un itinerario autoformativo¿ (Ref.: PIME/2017/B/025-14) funded by the Vice-Rectorate for Studies, Quality and Acreditation at Universitat Politècnica de València Oltra Badenes, RF.; Pérez-Esteve, É.; Silvestre Cerdà, JA.; Bas Cerdá, MDC.; Lerma-García, MJ.; Matarredona Desantes, N. (2018). PIMECOE: A project for self-diagnosis of the student outcome "effective communication" and its improvement through a self-formative itinerary. INTED proceedings (Online). 3800-3805. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2018.0739