Writing Skills Development (MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Provides links to sites that offer guidelines and tutorials on a variety of writing topics, including rubrics for assessing writing. See also the MERLOT English Portal (Language) for access to a broad range of materials for teaching and assessing writing. http://pedagogy.merlot.org/WritingSkil...

Writing Skills Development (MERLOT, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Provides links to sites that offer guidelines and tutorials on a variety of writing topics, including rubrics for assessing writing. See also the MERLOT English Portal (Language) for access to a broad range of materials for teaching and assessing writing. http://pedagogy.merlot.org/WritingSkil...

There is always a need to evaluate training skills acquired for, in this way, to know whether they have achieved the learning objectives. The use of the e-portfolio becomes more common among teachers then, becomes increasingly necessary define a good evaluation system. E-Portfolio evaluation criteria should take into account operational, appearance, evidence and reflection indicators. Consideri...

Assessment of foreign/second language (L2) oral proficiency is known to be complex and influenced by the local context. In Sweden, extensive assessment guidelines for National English Speaking Test (NEST) are offered teachers, who act as raters their own students’ performances on this high-stakes L2 (OP) test. Despite guidelines, teachers commonly construct NEST scoring rubric. The present stud...

The purpose of the study reported on in this paper was to identify performance criteria and ratings in rubrics designed for the evaluation of learning in online asynchronous discussions (OADs) in post-secondary contexts. We analysed rubrics collected from Internet sources. Using purposive sampling, we reached saturation with the selection of 50 rubrics. Using keyword analysis and subsequent gro...