INTRODUCTION
This work describes the research work on university teachers’ assessment of their students acquiring generic competences through the use of WebQuests as a didactic resource. In the context of the research work done on the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to adapt to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) convergence process, the teachers participating valued their experience with WebQuest and indicated the level at which WebQuest had allowed their students to develop each competence acquired as part of the study objective. The results show how the WebQuest methodology favours the didactic use of the Internet and other ICTs, and indicate that this teaching strategy is suitable to acquire and assess the generic competences studied by students within the EHEA.

HOW THE RESEARCH DEVELOPED
As part of the teaching experience with WebQuests carried out at Universitat Jaume I, one aim was to obtain information about the teachers’ perception of the competences acquired by their students. To this end, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted in which teachers were asked how they valued their experience with WebQuest and, specifically, how they would indicate the level at which WebQuest had allowed students to develop each competence that had been set as an objective. This was done using the same assessment Likert scale designed for the student-oriented assessment instruments, to which an additional column was added to be able to express whether, in the specific WebQuest case being assessed, the assessment of a given competence either made sense or was not applicable. This option allowed real information about the competences of interest to be obtained because, should one of the competences not have been developed as it was not considered a teaching objective, there was the option of choosing “Not applicable” rather than scoring “Nothing”, which better matches reality. The interview technique was opted once the advantages and limitations of its use had been considered.

MAIN CONCLUSIONS
In terms of students developing competences, the teachers consider that the elaborated WebQuest method helps the student acquire all the competences considered in the study, and at different levels depending on the subject matters and the WebQuest characteristics in question. All the teachers consider that students develop competences with WebQuests. In relation to the level of development, all the teachers believe that all the competences are dealt with “quite well” or “very well” with WebQuests, except for: “Interpersonal competences”, since 21% of the teachers do not consider this competence to be an objective of their WebQuest; “Basic computer competences”, as 80% of the teachers consider that such competences are “only slightly” developed; and “Research competences”, which all the teachers consider are “only slightly” developed.

Keywords: WebQuest, EHEA, competence-based-learnig, ICTs.