Assessment of participation using rubric for online discussion

Abstract

An online discussion is a platform been used to facilitate interaction between students in sharing knowledge. Many researchers have documented that online discussion more equitable because it gives equal voice to all students to participate. However, in participating students are expected active to construct their idea. Educators need to convey the information and assess the student’s participation. Assessing student’s participation consists of content and interaction where content refer to type of knowledge shown by student, and interaction is look at the way of student interact with others. In order to assess student’s participation can be measured by rubric which it help educator justify the grades quickly and efficiently. In this paper will present an analysis of rubric for assessing participation by combine the content and interaction using quantitative log file method through online discussion.