Week 5- DISCUSSION: Rubrics, Assessment, and PBL!

Week 5- DISCUSSION: Rubrics, Assessment, and PBL!

-How can PBL be used to help motivate students?

It is of paramount importance to mention that project based learning is among the driving force that would give much fuel for students to enhance their learning.  It is goal oriented. As the students is adequately oriented from the beginning. The students would read what is required and move gradually to achieve the goals.

-How can PBL be incorporated with technology in your class - or alternatively, what limitations are there to using PBL in your class?

PBL could be implemented in my class for the connection which available for all the students, besides the various gadgets they own. Moreover, they are supposed to work seriously to be ranked a good position, not only in the local level, but on the national level to access a good national class or go abroad to continue their studies. Therefore, their time is precious, and they would used fully to work on their project or doing something of values related to their studies. There would be no fool round.

-What is the role of rubrics and/or alternative assessment within PBL?

 The role of rubrics and/ or alternative assessment would easy both the students and teacher‘s task to move smoothly, safely, and surely in their projects. It would be a reference to check their progress. It provides objective evaluation. Even, students can provide feedback to their peers. It also provides different options to assess the students’ performance beyond pencil/paper test. It offers and caters for different learning styles. It suits andragogy learning who pretty sure of their learning objective, outcomes, and consequences

-How can PBL, rubrics and/or alternative assessment be used to promote independent learning?

It is obvious to understand that these kinds of rubrics provides enormous opportunities to evaluate, measure one’s performance upon clear criteria that would remain objective for anyone who would deal with  the stated criteria that are need to be performance if one would be successful in doing the activities.