Degree | Type | Year |
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2500798 Primary Education | OB | 4 |
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The Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (FP) is the final module in the degree programme; therefore, students are advised to enrol in this module only when they are certain they will complete their studies during the year of enrolment.
In order to enrol in the FP module, students need to have completed at least two thirds of the total ECTS of the whole degree programme.
The Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (FP) is aimed at developing a basic level research project or an innovation carried out in the professional field of the degree programme. In either case, the TFG must comply with the requirements of a research project, and it must allow the skills and knowledge associated with the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education to be activated and developed.
The FP is mostly carried out autonomously and is based on a topic agreed on with the tutor supervising the student.
The written FP document must be different and individual for each student. Work including sections that are the same as another submitted FP cannot be accepted. This does not prevent students from sharing theoretical-conceptual knowledge and doing part of the research together.
The FP covers a wide range of topics related to the different fields of knowledge that are part of the degree program.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Course: “Eines i recursos per realitzar el teu treball acadèmic” | 2 | 0.08 | 19, 22 |
Plenary session | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 25 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Seminars | 6 | 0.24 | 19, 12, 7, 24, 14, 20 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomus work | 140 | 5.6 | 19, 7, 25, 10, 22 |
The virtual classroom enabled is the TFE Platform (https://tfe.uab.cat). It is the space for the exchange of information between the coordination team, the tutor and the students, as well as the space where the different evidence of learning requested throughout the course should be delivered. Therefore, it is essential to consult this space periodically, as well as the e-mail address associated with it, to ensure that all the necessary information is received for proper progression and monitoring of the FP.
Students will be able to select the topic of the FP from those available in strict order of the average grade of their academic record during the period established at the beginning of the course.
The work methodology is divided into supervision sessions, independent work and assessment activities. The supervised activity includes two different forms of seminars that can be done in group or individually: compulsory seminars and extension seminars. There are 4 compulsory seminars distributed across the different phases of the process. The compulsory seminars are face-to-face. The first compulsory seminar is recommended to be a group seminar. In the case of students taking part in mobility programs, all seminars may be taken virtually. Students may also request up to 4 hours of extension seminars, which will be mutually agreed upon with the tutor.
Considering the autonomous nature of the work, no more than 4 hours of extension seminars may be taken without a justification of the need for differentiated instruction.
The FP is considered as a continuous process with 3 different phases: a starting phase in which the work is specified and proposed (with an approximate workload of 25 hours), a development phase (with approximately 75 hours of work), and a final and closing phase that includes the presentation of the final report (with an approximate workload of 50 hours).
The FP process will begin with a plenary session in which the general aspects of the elaboration of the FP will be explained. This plenary session is compulsory, except for those who are in mobility programs.
As part of the process, the following must be carried out:
The seminars, lasting up to 90 minutes, are intended as a space for discussion, resolution of doubts and proposals to advance the project. It is recommended that students submit the working document prior to the seminar with the progress and doubts so that the tutor can prepare the meeting. The total dedication of the compulsory seminars can't surpass 8 hours of face-to-face teaching and 4h for the additional seminars.
During this process, students are required to hand in the 2 follow-up documents and the final delivery (detailed in the assessment section). All deliveries will be made in the virtual space provided.
ORIENTATION AND TYPOLOGY OF THE FP
Two different types of FP can be chosen: the professionalization option and the research option (which can be basic research on a topic or an in-depth study of a theoretical concept).Regardless of the option chosen, the form of presentation of the FP can be agreed on with the tutor (report format or researcharticle format). Regardless of the format chosen, the FP must be written in CATALAN, except in the case of students of the Degree in Primary Education in English, who must write the FP in ENGLISH. In case that the student develops a topic related to english didactics, the student preferebly will write the work in English, although the student can choose to write it in Catalan.
All FPs must include a reference section (according to APA guidelines). The APA regulations can be consulted at: https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/guibib/113512/modelapa_a2021a.pdf
A) PROFESSIONALIZATION OPTION: Formulation of an intervention/innovation project in a particular socio-educational context. This FP modality allows four types of work to be considered:
In the case of FPs that are contextualized in the same school or institution wherethe student’s internship is done, students may benefit from the analysis of the context and other data; but in NO CASE can both reports be written with the same content. That is to say, the internship report and the FP cannot be the same in any of their sections. Duplicating material will beconsidered as self-plagiarism,and therefore will mean a failure in the FP.
B) RESEARCH OPTION:
STRUCTURE OF THE FINAL REPORT OF THE FP (3rd evaluation evidence)
Regardless of the FP option chosen, the 3rd evaluation evidence, which corresponds to the final report or memory of the FP, can be presented in two different formats:
1.- REPORT FORMAT
The person presenting the FP in this format must follow the following formal aspects:
2.- SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE FORMAT
The student who chooses to present the dissertation in this format must follow a presentation policy of a scientific journal with peer-review, selected together with the tutor. To do so, the following generic guidelines are proposed:
If the tutor considers it feasible, the student may be encouraged to publish the article in a scientific journal in the field. The tutor should assist the student in adapting the article to the criteria of rigor and presentation of the chosen journal. The intellectual property ofthe FP will belong to the author of the FP. In any case, it is understood that the tutor has also contributed to the elaboration of the study and of the article, so in case of publication, the consent of the author and the tutor will be required. The tutor will be listed as a second co-author.
It is compulsory that the student enrols and passes the course “Eines i recursos per realitzar el teu treball acadèmic”, offered by the Humanities Library of UAB. The student must attach the certification of the completed course before or on the second follow-up. More information: https://www.uab.cat/web/que-oferim/cursos-de-formacio-1345708785493.html).
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Final report | 100% | 0 | 0 | 1, 8, 3, 4, 2, 19, 12, 13, 6, 23, 7, 25, 9, 24, 11, 10, 14, 16, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 5, 26 |
This course does not have a single asssessment system.
The assessment of the FP will be based on 3 pieces of evidence:
The delivery of three pieces of evidence is mandatory and CANNOT BE RE-SUBMITTED. All follow up and final delivery must be upload in the virtual campus offered by the coordination in the timeline stablished between tutor and student. No deliveries wil be accepted after the deadline stablished.
If a student does not submit any evidence, either of the approach or of the development or if the quality of the work is very poor, it will have an impact on the grade of the final submission, in the criterion on monitoring of the FP, that will be assessed in the final delivery.
The tutor's feedback must also be sent through the space provided for this purpose, within a maximum of 15 days after the date of delivery of the evidence. These deadlines are for the ordinary call in June. For the first two follow-ups, a qualitative evaluation rubric with the defined criteria is available. For the final evaluation there is a rubric for each type of FP, which will result in a numerical grade from 0 to 10. The tutor will have to include feedback on all the deliveries. Both the characteristics of the documents and their evaluation rubrics will be published in the virtual space.
There are three causes that make the FP a direct fail:
No communication skills: If the FP includes a lot of grammar mistakes, a deficient or unintelligeble writing, the tutor shall fail the students' work.
Plagiarism of 20% or more: Although students can work in the same topic, the final report must be original and completely individual. In case of plagiarism, it may imply a disciplinary file.
A fraudulent use of AI tools: Any irresponsable use (including false references, false documentation or non verified) will be punished, and the unethical uses listed in the University principles (image manipulation with fraudulent purposes, ficticious data presented as real data) will be punish with a direct fail of the FP. In this case, it may also imply a disciplinary file.
In order to present the FP in the September call, it is necessary that the interested person requests the change of call at Gestió Acadèmica, during the period established for this purpose. Otherwise, the gradethat will appear in the June call will be a NOT ASSESSED and the student will not have the change to sit in September.
If the student does not pass the FP, he/she will have to register again since there is no recovery option.
EXCELLENT / HONORS TRIBUNALS
Only those students who obtain a grade of 9 or higher by the tuto, who have the acceptance of the correspondant department and who have agreed on presenting face-to-face their FP in front of a tribunal can aspire to obtain MH.
The tribunals will be held on the following dates:
The number of MH that will be awarded in the February, June or September call will depend on the number of students that apply for each call, as long as they represent at least 5% of the number ofstudents enrolled.
The presentation of the FP should be a maximum of 10 minutes. In this time students are expected to explain their work using a poster in digital format for support. Then, the appointed tribunal will ask the questions it considers pertinent and the student will have a maximum of 10 minutes to respond to the questions raised. The appointed tribunal, for the evaluation of the oral presentation, will only evaluate the presentation and defense of the FP, in no case will reference be made to the written document.
Since the presentations and defenses of the FP are of a public nature, in addition to the panel and the students summoned, any other person who wishes to attend may do so. In public presentations, all attendees must respect the schedules and procedures of the FP defense. Students are obliged to attend the entire presentation of the FP of the assigned examining board.
The bibliography will depend on the topic you want to study. Your tutor will guide you on the specific bibliography according to the subject matter. At a general level the following readings are recommended:
Caro, M.T. (2015). Guía de trabajos fin de grado en educación. Pirámide.
Ferrer, V., Carmona, M., & Soria, V. (Eds.) (2012). El trabajo de fin de grado. Guía para estudiantes, docentes y agentes colaboradores. McGraw-Hill.
Mercader Rubio, I., Gutiérrez Ángel, N., & Pérez Esteban, M.D. (2023). Guía práctica para la elaboración de un trabajo fin de estudios (TFG y TFM) en el ámbito de la educación y la psicología. Edual.
Quivy, R., & Van Carnpenhoudt, L. (2005). Manual de investigación en ciencias sociales. Limusa.
Sánchez, A., Olmos Rueda, P., Torrado Fonseca, M., & García López, J. (2006). Trabajos de fin de Grado y Postgrado. ALJIBE
Sancho, J. (2014). Com escriure i presentar el millor treball acadèmic: guia pràctica per a estudiants i professors. Eumo.
Serveis de Biblioteques (2021). Citacions bibliogràfiques segons el model American PsychologicalAssociation. Recuperat de https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/guibib/113512/modelapa_a2021a.pdf
Villar, J.J. (2010). Cómo hacer un trabajo final de carrera para los estudios de grado: notas para estructurar de manera práctica el trabajo final de carrera y plan de marketing para los estudios de grado. Astro Uno.
You can also consult the DDD, which FP with HONORS are published.
Specific programs will depend on the research methods used.
Virtual space.
Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.