It is an amazing
week to find interesting discussion about assessment and rubrics. Assessment is
always the biggest issue of the education in Korea. As the Suneung, the national
exam for entering university, is on November 8th, senior high school students
and their parents are in tension. Also, every Korean knows that the assessment
system will be attacked again right after the Suneung. Likewise, as the number
grade what students receive becomes to be the most important thing as an
outcome of the learning, many parents and students often forget what and why
they are learning. In that point, I believe a rubric is a great tool to remind students
of their learning purpose. 
Instead of the
number grade assessment, students are able to answer following questions through
the rubric: What are they learning in the class? Why are they learning this
subject? What are they expected to do in the class? and What are they able to
do after the class? As the rubric
helps students the learning purpose, they can evaluate themselves based on the
rubric; and it leads students to be motivated and independent
The rubrics
utilized in many ways, but especially teachers can use them at Project Based Learning.
As PBL requires
coming up with collaborated outcome, it is hard to decide what number/letter grade
is appropriate for the group project. Therefore the rubric or alternative assessment
would help teachers with this problem. Also, teachers can follow a specific
form of PBL through WebQuest. In WebQuest (http://www.zunal.com/), the
teacher creates the task statement and designates the resources to let learners
work in groups and have a product. After that, the teacher produces an evaluation
in the form of a rubric for students to.
Hi Hye Yeon - Indeed, I agree about PBL benefiting from rubric assessment. I find projects to often be quite challenging to grade, especially without a rubric that gives clear categories. Once a rubrics is laid out, it clarifies for me as a teacher, as well as for the students, what I am looking for. -Robert
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