SCLP development thus far - it’s almost the end of the module!

We are almost at the end of the road that leads to new ones. For the past week, Guilian and I have been discussing the peer evaluation, critiquing, and blogging mechanism for our SCLP.

For instance, she helped me sharpen my thoughts on the rubrics design by asking whether it would be better to just have a common set of rubrics for "Agents" and "Guides" since many criteria overlap. I thought however that having two sets of rubrics would be clearer, since the tool I advocate using (Forms on Google Docs) does not allow us to redirect students to different questions based on their answers (e.g. "If A, go to Q5").

We did have some cordial disagreements over the best ICT tool for peer evaluation rubrics. Aesthetically, I agree with Guilian that there are many free online survey tools that can do the job much better. She also managed to locate some sites which provide pie charts and other graphical representations of the survey results. My reasons for sticking to Google Docs' Form tool is that it actually links the survey to a Google Docs Spreadsheet which not only lists all collected responses so far, but also timestamps every response i.e. there is an automatically generated column that displays the time at which each set of responses was received. By adding fields for the names of the respondent and critiqued student, we can also match each set of responses to their owner, unlike other free online surveys where this is not possible. Furthermore, you can keep customizing your form without having to create a new one.


At present we are happy that we are developing an SCLP for e-learning (thank you, Prof Tan, for the idea) that can also be adapted for face-to-face classes. Having an SCLP that resides online also allows many other possibilities for future expansion, not the least through hyperlinking to other hypertexts.