The European Higher Education Area is the new space for the teachers and the students in the higher education. One of the aims is the improvement of the quality of the education. It needs criteria of convergence in the development of the different aspects and its assessment. The education based on competences needs tools of assessment which are different from the current system of assessment. The teachers need new tools for teaching and new tools for the assessment of these competences and it is important to select adequate tasks to help to acquire them. It is not difficult to assess specific competences, but it is not easy to assess general or transversal competences like the ability of working in a group, the use of computers, oral and written expression, the ability of analysis and synthesis….

The authors of this contribution have elaborated a series of papers based on the design of tools for the assessment of competences in the context of the Higher Education. In this contribution we present the one of these papers. We show a tool for the assessment of the competences of the ability of working in a group. This is a fundamental competence to acquire for any student in the University. Whatever branch of specialization, this competence is a fundamental instrument that any employer requires of our graduates. For this competence we have established different levels of training and we have designed different indicators that give us the degree of learning of the competence.

To put into practice the tool, we have created the appropriate tasks to apply in a classroom. In the academic year 2007-2008, we have used these tasks with students of our University and the experience has been very positive. In this contribution, we show the results of the assessment of the competence and the valuation of the experience given by our students.