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

Rubric: Devising a telecollaborative project

Students who choose this task will devise a telecollaborative project and write an article (2000 words)
describing the aims of the project, the collaborative tasks and process, and the Web 2.0 tools to be used.
The article will be assessed on the basis of the following rubric.
Category
Content

The content is focused The content is quite The content is, at times, The
and consistent.

focused and consistent.

content

is

somewhat vague or only unclear and generally

loosely related to the off topic.
task.

Content

Appropriate

documentation

and documentation is and documentation is referenced.

used.

evidence Appropriate

Citations

relevant

to

are used,
the limited

yet

evidence Some information is not There

from

number

is

Some documentation

of

a citations may not be information.

of relevant to the argument few

Only

citations

argument and they are sources. Few citations or from sources of low relevant
from credible sources.

poor

are

to

the

may not be relevant to credibility.

argument and from

the argument or from

credible sources.

low credibility sources.

Content

Organization is well- The content is well The

organizational There is no logical

organization

suited to the task. The organized for the most structure appears to be organizational
introduction is inviting, part. The introduction flawed. The introduction structure.
states the main topic, is clear and provides an is
and

provides

not

so

an overview. Information confuses

clear
the

and

reader

overview. Information is presented in a quite about the topic of the

is presented in a logical logical order. The final text.
order.

The

Information

is

final paragraph summarizes presented in a somewhat

paragraph summarizes most aspects of the logical order. The final

the main points of the text.

concluding/summarizing

text.

paragraph is missing or
lacks important elements
of the text.

Reflection

The text demonstrates The text demonstrates The text demonstrates a The

text

an in-depth reflection a general reflection on minimal reflection on the reflection

lacks
on

the

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on

the

concepts the concepts presented concepts presented in the concepts presented

presented in the course in the course materials.

in

course materials.

materials.

the

materials.

Web 2.0 tools Web 2.0 tools selected Web 2.0 tools selected Web 2.0 tools selected Web
selection

course

2.0

tools

for use in the project for use in the project for use in the project are selected for use in
are

strongly

aligned are

with projects goals.

aligned

projects goals.

with partially

aligned

with the project are not

aligned with projects

projects goals.

goals.
References and Citations
reference list

are Citations are

referenced

according referenced

to

guidelines. to

Reference

list

mostly Several citations are not Citations

do

not

according referenced according to follow guidelines and

guidelines. guidelines. Less than half there

are

many

is Reference list is almost of the citations appear in citation errors. The

complete. There are the reference list. There reference

complete.

some minor errors or are several errors.

list

is

incomplete.

omissions.
Grammar

There

are

misspellings

no There are three or There

or fewer

grammatical errors.

and/or

are

misspellings misspellings

several There

are

and/or errors

in

grammatical grammatical errors.

many
spelling

and/or grammar.

errors.

This rubric is licensed under a Creative Common License Attribution 4.0 International. Everyone is free to share and/or adapt the rubric even for
commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit to the author is provided. This citation may be used: Konstantinidis, A. (2017). Rubric: Devising a
telecollaborative project. Telecollaboration in Language Learning module, Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching programme,
University of Nottingham, UK. Retrieved from: [url]