Rubric

//Rubric for assessment//

In order to assess the work produced from the lesson plan a rubric could be designed. The rubric could either be created solely by the teacher, or with student input. If student input is included when writing the rubric there can be increased ownership in the work created, and students have greater awareness of the required outcomes. The students will also have a stronger understanding of the expectations and outcomes related to the work. "A good rubric will describe the levels of quality for each of the criteria, usually on a points scale" (source ), rather than just a continuum of points which helps students to complete the task to the best of their ability with their knowledge of the specific requirements in the assignment.

A rubric for this piece of work may look something like this:


 * **Criteria** || **Low (1)** || **Moderate (2)** || **Excellent (3)** ||
 * Adding the video to the wiki page || Wrote the URL on the page || Added a link to the videos URL || Embedded the video as a widget ||
 * Content of video || Not particularly interesting and entertaining, poorly expressed || Moderately interesting and/or entertaining, expressed satisfactorily || Highly interesting and/or entertaining, well expressed ||
 * Use of actions and other movements in movie || Added with little thought to meaning || Mostly used to convey meaning || Always used to convey meaning ||
 * Use of mathematical question || Basic equation with little or no link to the storyline || Satisfactory equation with some link to the storyline || Complex equation which links strongly to the storyline ||
 * Personal reflection || Shows little consideration to process or personal performance || Shows satisfactory consideration to process and personal performance || Shows strong consideration to process and personal performance ||

A rubric is a useful tool for assessing this sort of project because of the many facets of the work the students complete. A rubric outlines the specific expectations of the work. For a digital medium extra assessment criteria is required, particularly in terms of the interactivity of the medium. This requires additional assessment as opposed to work completed on paper.

When assessing the wiki teachers can look at the history of a page so see who has edited the page, what they have edited and when. This allows teachers to monitor the work as they would have done with corrections on a written piece of work. This element would need to be considered in a rubric, perhaps looking at input from each student. The teacher would not be assessing how many edits the students made to the wiki, because it logs every save, whether the change was a large one or a small one, as a separate edit. The teacher would need to make judgements about the quality of the editing. One concern with this is that it would be time consuming to check the edits of every page when it comes to the assessment.