The Evaluation block is a new addition to the WebQuest model. Clearly, if we're going to justify the expense of using the web for learning, we need to be able to measure results. Since the learning we're looking for is at the loftier reaches of Bloom's Taxonomy, we can't gauge it with (readily) with a multiple-choice test. An evaluation rubric is called for.

Since we've only recently added this component to the model, there aren't many examples to point to. Here's one:

In the San Diego-Biarritz Comparison Unit by Susanne Hirsch, Janice Thiel developed a rubric for evaluating the web pages created in French by the students.

The rubric examines six different aspects of the student product and establishes four benchmarks for each aspect. It's intended to be printed out and given to the evaluators who could be teachers, parents or peers.

Evaluation rubrics would take a different form depending on the kind of task given to the learner. In time, we'll be adding more examples to this page to cover written work, multimedia creations, web pages and other performance types.

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