SEER {source educational evaluation rubric)

Come come all along with me to the bitter yet truthful journey!

Let's have a  look on the manner of SEER(Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) affiliated academic writing/research content...

A workshop was held in our 'English Department' 

- Dilip Barad(sir)

At first he tried to get the aim of introducing "SEER" from students. Then gradually in self-paced manner it gets embarked.

Then as it goes on, he enunciated how for different sites and on different parameters, this rubric is working. First he showed how some sites are specifically categorised, as per their authenticity, and how they are required to serve a specific kind of menu as per the authority's command.

Some specimen of rubric evaluated sites were shown, based on the given parameters(authoritative, educational value, intent, originality and quality) such as; Newyork times, enotes and 123helpme.

Examples of technical rubric evaluation on enotes, Newyork times and 123helpme sites.

Then we were assigned to evaluate those sites, which we are used to use on daily basis. I had in my mind many but I went with some recently utilized sites which I had used most. Those are mentioned below, with evaluated points.

1. "DILIPBARAD'S BLOG":

-AUTHORITATIVE : 4 

-EDUCATIONAL VALUE: 4

-INTENT: 4

-ORIGINALITY: I gave 4 points but sir told it should be given "only 2 points" as he is also including some videos to explicate his views on some specific ideas or intent and according to him(Dilip Barad sir) that cannot be considered as cent percent original as it is merged by the two, he himself and another one "an appointee".

-QUALITY: 3 {as it is based on academic writing and to make clear some specific view points, it is necessitate to include some outsider sources based videos/pictures/poems etc and perhaps as I didn't specifically mentioned any specific data, taken for evaluation so it was felt thus by me}

Description to the aforementioned site:

It yields more than enough information, instructions and directions(later on he differentiated between the two prior things) along with the ideas but somewhere in between to provide the establishment of good coverage(as it is mentioned above under the quality parameter).

Subsequently for "Wikipedia": I preferred to give below average points, respectively like 1 and 0 both, 1, in between 2-1, 0 and in between 1-0.

Description: As it has less than superficial information, it cannot come into any of the highly categorised sections of any parameters.

Jimmy wales

{He also showed us a biographical video of Jimmy Wales(an inventor of wikipedia site) if he would have thought to be "the Mark Zuckerberg" [a creator of  Facebook- like site] he would have perhaps done. But he wants people to learn something as he invented this site, where readers, evaluators, analyzers are allowed to edit and have full priviledge to share their ideas with public and if their data is qualitative and hygienic they are also given the deservable reward for it. He doesn't demand anything to pay for his site as it is based on 'non-profit organisation but wants people should serve his site with donation}.

Ultimately for "Times of India":  I gave respectively 4,2,4,2,3 like points for chronologically coming sections one by one.

Description: As it is the news site and as it is based on evidence and truthful events, it is enough competent to provide information, instructions along with the ideas satisfactorily(later on sir also told to check its authenticity with "Newyork times site").

He also reinstated different types of plagiarism done by the academicians in academic field.

Different types of facilitative yet fair cheating done by students, knowingly/unknowingly.

How it is harmful if it is done by student and if that particular student has been trained under an expertise then it would cause harm to both.

It is like, "hum toa doobe hain sanam tumko bhi le doobenge".😌

This we're not going to discuss, if you want to learn further, you should Google it out and see how technology is more faithful than humanbeing.  Human being seems to be egoistic but it cannot be. Just a step ahead and it would provide you a spurious response, which you haven't even wondered of!

For example: As our sir showed a document based on (ctrl+c category of copying) where there were two sections, 'copied one' and 'edited one' (can be categorised as smarter copier). While clone for "precise copy of data", remix(mixup of two types of datas), find&replace(a portion of the founded word is highlighted to replace it with the selected word) etc.

Then he also differentiated between aggregation of the data and what is the originality of it, as asked by one of my seniors.

To sum up this workshop, I must say it was extremely fruitful in a way, as it provided many ideas regarding digital literacy skills, and how with specific kind of key words one can exactly get what he/she is seeking for and how one should rather relying on fake/fabricated data, try to retain alive his/her curiosity of learning and by trying to avoid particular type of sites, prefer to the most reliable/authenticative  sites.

To know furthermore in Gujarati language, what had taken place in our department, you may have a glimpse on the headlines of the topic(mentioned below) this tremendous work was done by our senior named "Dhaval Diyora" with the help of the members of "media committee".

Just type a few keywords, and you would be able to access through the entire Chronicle of this happenings.

https://samiyakagdi313.blogspot.com/2019/10/academic-writing-workshopessay-type.html

You may also have some ideas by tapping on the link below, shared in our previous session on "academic writing workshop". Where also sir had reinstated some of the things from plagiarism(regarding urkund system).

If someone is getting something fruitful, there is someone's dedication, who is constantly striving  for... and he knows very well "how to serve"! and "what to serve"! And this is sir (Dilip Barad) without whom it can't be ever made possible.

Thanks a lot sir!

Thankyou everyone!


Source: SEER workshop held in department of English - Dilip Barad Sir.