Judgment

Definition of a Judgment Task
"To evaluate something requires a degree of understanding of that something as well as an understanding of some system of judging worth. Judgment tasks present a number of items to the learner and ask them to rank or rate them, or to make an informed decision among a limited number of choices." [1]

Tips for Judgment Tasks
"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.
 * the rubric provided should have many aspects that allows the student to excel in many areas.
 * the rubric should also be very specific so the student is clear on what they are being judged on, but allow room for creativity.

"In the second case, it is important to get learners to explain and defend their system of evaluation." [1]

Reference [1] http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html

**Examples of a WebQuest in Which Participants Take on the Role of Being a Judge**
1 This WebQuest is a great example of a judgment WebQuest because it allows each student to take on the role of one to judge, but also one to be judged, which makes he or she more like an expert on how to judge others in this assignment.

2. [|Take Me On Vacation]

In this WebQuest students will have to chose a location for their family vacation, either New York City, NY, San Diego, CA or Orlando, FL based on parameters such as cost for airfare, hotels, car rentals, etc. They have to do research to come up with the cheapest means of travel. This is a great example of judgment because it allows the students to act as if they are responsible for planning their own trip and have serious real life situations to consider.

This link shows how students can evaluate websites and how to tell if they are well done.[|Evaluating Websites]