Bachelor's Degree Final Project Checklists for elaboration, tutoring, and evaluation

Abstract

The Bachelor's Degree Final Project (BDFP) is a compulsory subject for undergraduate university students. Due to the different types of works and the lack of coordination mechanism, there is a disparity of criteria in the preparation-tutoring and evaluation-qualification of them. The aim of this work was to design an instrument that facilitates the elaboration, tutoring, and evaluation of the TFG in the Physiotherapy Bachelor´s degree at a Spanish public university. A bank of six checklists was designed; a common one that included the rules of style, extension, and structure; and another five regarding each specific type of BDFP: research work, systematic bibliographic review, research projects, and professional work (clinical case or intervention protocol). A team of 11 university professors agreed and designed the sections and headings of each checklist. A final version was distributed during the second semester of 2021 among teachers and 4th-year students. It is remarkable that having organized, and specific checklists facilitate the preparation, tutoring, and evaluation of the BDFP, assuring the most important task, consistency as well as minimizing mistakes. Furthermore, they are easily exportable tools to other universities and health sciences related degrees.