Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching: Telecollaboration in Language Learning

Task: Enriching Wikipedia & Assessment of Group Work

In this task, students will form groups of 3 and will collaborate to improve a section of the Tandem language
learning page in Wikipedia. Each group will discuss to decide on the topic that they will focus and,
subsequently, they will organise their work in order to add a text of about 500 words in total to the selected
topic. Next, students will write a joint text (about 700 words) about how they organized their work as well as
about the improvements they made to the Tandem language learning page and they will propose a mark for
their work. Students may use the following rubric to assess their work.
This task contributes 20% of the variance of the final overall course grade. Suggested deadline for submission:
end of the 1st Section.

Category
Group work

The group worked well In

general

together to fulfill the worked

task.

Each

2
the

well

group There

were

together, problems

some The group did not

in

the collaborate

or

member though there were few collaboration of the communicate

contributed

in

a occurrences

of group. Most members Some

valuable way to the communication

contributed

to

well.

members

the worked

project. Members were breakdown or failure to fulfillment of the task, independently while
respectful

of

each collaborate. All members yet

they

worked others

contributed

contributed significantly independently most of little to the fulfillment

other.

to the fulfillment of the the times. Members of the task goals. A

task and were mostly were mostly respectful lack of respect was
respectful of each other.
of each other.
frequently noted.
Content detail

The

topic

is

fully Essential

covered with a lot of about

details and examples.

knowledge The
the

topic

page

is essential

contains The

is

information minimal and/or there

about the topic but are

included.

content

several

factual

there are 1-2 factual errors.

errors.
Content

Appropriate

evidence Appropriate evidence and Some information is There

is

documentation and documentation is documentation is used not referenced. Some documentation

used.
relevant

Citations
to

are from a limited number of citations may not be information.

the sources.

Few

citations relevant

to

poor
of
Few

the citations are relevant

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argument and they are may not be relevant to argument or they are to the argument and
from credible sources.

the argument or they are from

from

low

low

credibility from

credibility sources.

credible

sources.

sources.
Content

All

information

accuracy

accurate.

is Almost all information is There

are

inaccuracies

accurate.

some There
in

is

well The

several

the inaccuracies in the

information provided.
content

are

information provided.

Content

The content is well The

organization

organized. Headings or organized for the most structure appears to be organizational

bulleted lists are used part.

organizational There is no logical

flawed.

structure.

appropriately.
References
reference list

& Citations

are Citations

are

mostly Several citations are Citations

referenced

according referenced according to not

to

Wikipedia Wikipedia

guidelines.

Reference Reference list is almost guidelines. Less than are

list is complete.

complete.

do

referenced follow

not

Wikipedia

guidelines. according to Wikipedia guidelines and there

There

many

citation

are half of the citations errors. The reference

some minor errors or appear

in

the list is incomplete.

reference list. There

omissions.

are several errors.

Grammar

There

are

misspellings
grammatical errors.

no There are three or fewer There

or misspellings

are

and/or misspellings

grammatical errors.

several There

are

many

and/or errors in spelling or

grammatical errors.

grammar.

Links to other The section contains The page contains some The page contains few There are no links to
pages

several links to other links to other Wikipedia links

Wikipedia pages. There pages.

to

Wikipedia pages.

other other

Wikipedia

pages.

are no broken links.

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Teaching programme, University of Nottingham, UK. Retrieved from: [url]