Week - 5 - DISCUSSION: Rubrics, Assessments, and PBL 1

1) Alternative Assessment: It has given confidence to my students to develop into extra sovereign learner.  It further has given emphasis to my students' potential. It has amplified incentive as well. This style of measurement has helped to get a vibrant synopsis of students' educational and linguistic maturity.

2) Checklists : It has supported my learners to develop into further sovereign learners for the reason that they ally strongly with responsibilities and an energetic involvement. 

3) Role of rubrics and/or Alternative Assessment within PBL: They endow with a gauge by means of which to conclude the excellence of presentation on the basis of recognized criterion.

4) Holistic rubrics: They have countered to language concert completely. They have further put emphasis on what the students do well.

5) Analytic rubrics: These are alienated into various categories in lieu of special features of show. All categories have special weights. In this way they make available information to the learner in relation to their strong point and limitation of language performance.

6) PBL: It encourages the learners’ to develop into extra independent learners since it make available ways to help learners to expand language skills by conducting meaningful projects and developing a sense of community. PBL motivates learners to learn language for an idea, furnish significance to the learning and creates enthusiasm and inspiration. 

7) WebQuests: It gives self-assurance learners to turn out to be extra self-directed learners to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills. It is attractive and encouraging to teachers and learners for the reason that it consists of a two-way learning module and necessitates learners to go afar, to investigate, use inspiration, serious thinking skills, amalgamation, assessment of information and coming up with ingenious explanation. A WebQuest can put the power of the Web behind the topic, learners work at their own pace, they explore in additional profundity and the unlike ability and intensity in the class.

8) Incorporation of PBL with technology in class: Learners build interviews by means of skype, record an oral testimony and post it on a personal blog, put in order role-plays, observer them and send them, inscribe online interrogate about a topic, short and long term WebQuests. I apply technology and its reimbursement to provide the learners prospect to put into practice the intended language.

I have also tried WebQuest. It is the technology which makes better students wisdom. I would like to share you my WebQuest link "http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=219971".

Dr. Ashok Kumar,

Deptt. of English Language,

State Council of Educational Research & Training, Uttarakhand, India.