Rubrics for Assessment in WebQuest

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Rubrics for Assessment in WebQuest
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How do you evaluate the following? Easy or
difficult? Any problems?

• An oral presentation
• A Web page showing student research results
• A class debate
• Collaborative work skills
• Making a brochure
• Making a poster

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The Rubric (table)

• Constructs in the forms of matrixes
• Vertical Learning tasks or subtasks under a
  major task developed in the WebQuest
• Horizontal Benchmark descriptions or criteria
  (statements) for different levels of
  outcomes/performance against each learning task

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Rubric Matrix (Levels of learning outcomes)
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SOLO (Structure of the Observed Learning
Outcomes) Model
Prestructural The task is engaged, but the
learner is distracted or misled by an irrelevant
aspect Unistructural The learner focuses on the
relevant domain, and picks one aspect to work
with Multistructural The learner picks up more
and more relevant or correct features, but does
not integrate them Relational The learner now
integrates the parts with each other, so that the
whole has a coherent structure and meaning
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SOLO Taxonomy Schematic Outline
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Why Rubric?

• Evaluating student performance in areas which are
  complex and vague
• Giving clearer idea of what is expected in terms
  of specific performance
• Foster high level of learning which cannot be
  scored by numbers, such as critical thinking,
  creativity
• Authentic assessment tool
• Evaluating a wider range of students
  work/deliverables
• For students, clarifying the unknown grades given
  to them
• For teachers, providing insights into the
  objectives of project learning

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Authentic assessment

• Learning tasks in WebQuest involves real life
  activity where students are engaged in solving
  real-life problems
• Peer- and self-assessment
• Students declaration on how much they have done