#assessment using ict

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When looking online, I came across a website called Scoop.it, which was designed to create a Web presence to aide in the successfulness of businesses through the sharing of ideas made by professionals – i.e. marketers, consultants and the entrepreneurs.

One of the articles I found under the Creative Assessment brings forth the idea of online badges that contribute to recognising skills obtained outside of school or online. The Mozilla Open Badges project acknowledges these skills and is working at helping learners to display what they know in a way that can be valuable for career/educational opportunities.

I have a lot of friends who have taken the time and effort to learn something online (html coding and other technological skills) and now have a vast knowledge in a wide range of things that they will never fully be recognized for knowing. If this Badge Projects is a revolutionary idea that will help those online/out of school knowledge seekers be accredited for their skills, then I am 100% behind it.

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In our tutorials we looked at Rubistar, and online tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

It saves the teacher time with already created rubrics, or there are base rubrics that teachers can build on and edit to suit their particular marking criteria. 

The great thing about rubrics is that it can be given to the student so that they can see what quality of work their teacher is after and will build their assessment based around the criteria. Personally, I loved rubrics simply because it was literally my answer sheet; as long as I addressed the items on the rubric, I was going to pass.