Has anyone done any work on a task module? I believe that schooltool has a task module where students can view their progress and teachers can assign below competant, competant and above competant scores (radio buttons) for students.
Chuck Blaney
Mercury team
Central Middle School of Science
Hi, I know this does not answer your question but...
Why do some rating levels put the word "competent" at a perceived neutral point e.g. (middle or 0)
If someone is competent at a task then is this not a positive situation as the task will be completed "competently”?
Just thought this might make an interesting discussion. 
well that's too metaphysical for middle school - we use the term below proficient, proficient and highly proficient. This is consistent with SBA and NCLA. Schooltool and others have been using the term competant. What ever its called we need a way to display to students their required tasks and how they are progressing towards their proficiency. We have aligned our teaching strategies and methods to ensure student are successful in a series of tasks per grade level.
The plans are to allow assigning of competency lists to all courses and activities (eg "can read", "can add 2+2") and keep track of students who have successfully completed activities and thus acheived some competency in things. This all comes under future "Metadata" work.
Language teachers in Europe like the European Language passport:
You can do your language acivities (dear a project?) in Moodle, test yourself with the online program "Dialang" and mark your progress (in levels A B and C) in your own passport. (http://www.dialang.org/english/index.htm)
This are examples in differnt languages, get inspired: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/hornav/Downloads/LangPassport/ELPTemplate/navigate.action
Having a Moodle scheme, leaning on a modul like teacherplan and attachable to every resource ("read this") and activity ("do this") would be a great help for grading open assignements.
This scheme approach can help to create/exchange sets of scales (""Rubrics") for every open assignment:
- http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/scoring.html
- http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/rubrics.htm
- http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=3
- http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/materials_performance.htm
- http://webquest.sdsu.edu/rubrics/weblessons.htm
- http://www.k12.de.us/teacher/shane/Rubrics.html
- http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/rubrics.html
Having an archive for storing and exchange schemes IN Moodle.org, something like http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php would be nice.
Hi
If you experiment with the optional Exercise Module, you will find that it allows you to declare a list of competencies and scores for a piece of wok, rather than the single score associated with an assignment.
It is also setup so that students can self assess these same competencies
However, it does not allow you to declare the competencies in advance, or to integrate these across a course from multiple sources.
Andy D
If you experiment with the optional Exercise Module, you will find that it allows you to declare a list of competencies and scores for a piece of wok, rather than the single score associated with an assignment.
It is also setup so that students can self assess these same competencies
However, it does not allow you to declare the competencies in advance, or to integrate these across a course from multiple sources.
Andy D