Tips

It's common, though not required, that learners play a role while accomplishing a judgment task.

A well designed assignment of this type will either:

• provide a rubric or other set of criteria for making the judgment, or
• require and support learners in creating their own criteria for evaluation.

In the second case, it is important to get learners to explain and defend their system of evaluation.

Examples

• One example familiar to any student of WebQuests is the The WebQuest about WebQuests exercise. The criteria for evaluation given are short and sketchy, as the lesson is intended to provide an introduction to the concept and the issues involved.
• Excellent WebQuests have been developed within a mock trial format. See the Amistad WebQuest and the Rain Forest Project as examples.