I enjoyed reading
about rubrics, project-based learning and Web
Quests. However, what I have enjoyed most is the readings about rubrics. As I
mentioned in the nicecet discussion thread for this week, I think rubrics can
facilitate the learning process in diverse ways. They function as anchors for teachers and students, they
provide a standard to which everybody
can refer to and they even provide a measure with which to determine the
quality of performance on the basis of pre-established criteria.
As I
was doing my rubric, I realized how complex and interesting
assessing students’ performance can be. Simply marking the students as good or
bad does not always provide sufficient feedback to give them the opportunity to
learn and improve their language skills. In fact providing limited generalized feedback,
can even be a reflection of the teacher’s reluctance to carry out a thorough evaluation.
Rubrics, on the other hand, give specific and detailed information to the
students and teachers. They explain what the relationship between different
degrees of performances and their corresponding grade. To me, they serve as
learning contracts: if you do this, you will get that.
Finally,
I would like to share with you 2 pages I found interesting and useful for
calibrating rubrics:
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Examples of Likert Scaled Responses Used in Data-Gathering
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