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Learning Objective 4 - Students will evaluate their contribution and the contribution of others to the class wiki project by comparing strong and weak points as well as accuracy and ease of interpretation in the content of the project on their blog with at least 80% accuracy according to the rubric provided.
The Activity
Here I ask the students to evaluate their contribution to the evolution chapter review and the chapter reviews submitted by other teams. I want them to think about how they contributed to the assignment and how they could have pushed themselves and the group harder to achieve an even better product by comparing strong and weak points in the project. They are also asked to assess the other projects for accuracy and ease of interpreting that material. By reviewing the projects submitted by other groups they will see different methods to present the same information, which may inspire more creativity in a later assignment.
The Assessment
The students will be assessed on their ability to critique themselves and their classmates, and discuss the accuracy of the material presented in the other reviews and its ease of interpretation. There will be a rubric provided to guide them through their reflections and encourage them to think deeper about the project as a whole.
The Assessment Tool
The assessment tool for this activity is a personal blog. Blogs are good for reflective activities because they provide a space where students can express their ideas on a topic and think critically about their experience with the material and the course in general. They are nice for reviewing activities too because they can be shared with classmates and present helpful feedback. The downside to blogs is that they can be accessed by anyone, unless you are using a blogging service with restricted access. This means that the students need to be very careful about what they say on the blog. Just like on other forms of social media, anything on a blog can be seen by potential employers making that critical decision about who to hire. Plagiarism is also a problem that needs to be addressed when using a blog. Students need to understand proper citation procedures so they do not display this ideas of others as their own.
Plagiarism and Diversity
This activity asks the students to talk about their personal experience with the chapter review and to critique an original piece of work by classmates. Plagiarism would not be easy, and might actually be more work than doing the activity. This activity allows students to discuss the diverse ways the material was presented in each chapter review to reach students with different learning styles. It also allows each student to discuss how that diversity in presentation impacted their learning.
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