This week, I am attending the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. While I am new to the SoTL community, I feel that all I am learning is very familiar. Is it because I have been in education for so many years? Are all of us in education-related disciplines SoTL practitioners by default?
I have seen one session that was directly related to teaching with technology that addressed assessing wiki assignments. Several of you blogged about this and asked how we can assess students' contributions to wikis. There were a couple of suggestions made in the session, including:
- Instructor assessment (read wiki, assign grades)
- Peer assessment (peers are assigned wiki parts and rate using a rubric)
- Outside expert assessment (instructor's colleagues read wiki, declare "winning" pages)
I was particularly interested in the last of these, but the focus of the talk was peer assessment. I wonder what those of you who are considering using blogs think about these different methods, and if you would consider asking a colleague to review your students' work?
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