Judging will take place from 24th to 28th November.

Instructions and Peer Judging proformas will be placed on this page on November 20th.

Find out who you have to judge/evaluate by checking the Peer Judging Grid in the Gallery on November 24th.

Judging of the Projects

All projects will be judged:

1) By the official judges

2) By peer evaluation

Peer evaluation will account for one third of the final score.

Why Peer Evaluation?

This process gives teachers the opportunity to assist students to evaluate web sites in a comprehensive and systematic manner, encouraging them to explore the good and bad aspects of a site in some depth. It encourages students to use more than the usual "OK" "good" or "yuk" to describe the attributes of a web site. This evaluation process is a valuable learning experience which can be transferred to many other situations.

Peer Evaluation Guidelines

As part of the judging process each entrant must critically evaluate another entry using the Evaluation Rubric to be provided. Check the peer judging grid to see whom you are to evaluate. Look at several entries before evaluating.

Apply approximate age/grade appropriate criteria to each category. (ie. a site created by a year 3 group may not be as accomplished as one done by a Computing Studies student, but may deserve a very high mark if it is excellent work for that age group.)

The two main areas of content and presentation will be considered in the judging to find good projects which are both visually and contextually rich. Therefore when calculating the final score for an entry the sum of the contents categories will be multiplied by the sum of the presentation categories.

A project that has moderate scores in both areas will score higher overall than a project that is high in one area and low in the other.

Sample Score Sheet

The following indicates the highest possible scores. All information sections should be completed.

Entry Name:
School:

Comments:

Evaluated by: (Entry name)

School:

What Must You Do?

You MUST evaluate the site allocated to you. Entrants who do not evaluate another site will not have their own entry included in the final judging.

1. Check that your entry is on the web.
2. Check the table in the Gallery section of the Christmas/Holiday Greetings Cards Round the Web site to see who you need to evaluate.
3. Read all the information in the Peer Evaluation section and print a copy to use while evaluating the site.
4. Go to the entries gallery and view entries.
5. Spend time looking at several entries, then evaluate your allocated entry.
6. Complete the score sheet form at the bottom of this page (similar to the Sample Score Sheet above) and include your own scores and information.
7. Include some constructive comments - these provide very useful and important feedback for the entrant..
8. Complete the results form by 5pm Friday, 24th November, your local time.
9. A copy of peer judging results will be emailed to the school, by the project coordinator, so that they get some direct feedback on their entry.

How to Evaluate a Site

1. Distribute copies of the Peer Evaluation Rubric to students.
2. Explain and discuss the vocabulary and meaning of the criteria with the students.
3. Have students practice by evaluating their own site, or another site .(if time permits) Look at several sites.
4. Have students review and discuss the site.
5. Come to a group consensus about the scores and comments you will assign.

Peer Evaluation Rubric

Consider each of the elements within the category being evaluated. Use the following guide to help determine a score for the category.

If the site includes all of these elements and each is well covered give a 4 or a 5.

If the site includes most of these elements, but some are not well covered give a 3 or a 4.

If the site includes some of these elements and they are all well covered give a 3 or a 4.

If the site includes only some of these elements, and some of them are not well covered give a 2 or a 3.

If the site includes few of these elements but they are all well covered give a 2 or a 3.

If the site includes few of these elements and they are not well covered give a 0 or a 1.

All projects will be judged by the official judges and by peer evaluation. Peer evaluation will account for one third of the final score.

Judging Criteria

The following criteria will be considered in the judging of the entries,and should be considered when peer judging:

Section 1: Content

A) Christmas/Holiday Greetings Theme
Contains interesting and colourful Christmas/holiday graphics
Content of the words convey a Christmas/holiday message
Uses original art work and graphics
Contains an original twist to a Christmas/holiday theme
Uses Christmas/holiday sounds and music
Has an overall Christmas/holiday feel
Content flows in a logical and sequential manner.

B) Appropriate Language and Conventions
Text is grammatically correct.
Spelling is accurate.
Writing conventions are appropriate.(ie paragraphing, capitalisation, punctuation)
Writing conventions enhance readability. (eg paragraph breaks, headings, text formatting) Site needs little or no editing.

C) Ideas and Content
Content is accurate and complete in itself
Uses clever and original ideas
Ideas are from mainly primary sources (eg original art work, photographs, creative writing, poetry, original music and audio recording)
Site has an impact when entered (ie captures interest) due to original ideas and content.

D) Organisation
Contains an inviting opening which draws the user in and establishes the feel of the project.
Sequencing that is logical and effective throughout the project, and enhances the content without taking attention away from it.
Links and or menus that make it clear how to explore an area.
An ease of navigation throughout the project with no sense of being lost.
A sense of completion of each page.

Section 2: Presentation and Technique

A) Presentation
Contains interactive elements which are logical and add to the interest of the site, with no 'dead ends'
Contains a range of Multimedia Elements including text, images, sound, animation, video
The site is captivating, yet easy to use
Layout is pleasing to the eye, not cluttered and easy to follow
Multimedia elements complement each other to contribute to the purpose and feel of the web site
Multimedia resources such as sound, video and images are appropriately used

B) Technical
The site works well, with pages loading quickly.
Links to other sites and pages within the site work well.
The web site looks good in all browsers.
Multimedia resources such as movies and sound work properly on various platforms.

Peer Judging Form