The Support System to Share the Rubrics and Teaching Tips for Technical and Academic Writing

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The purpose of this research is to extract key principles and criteria and develop e-portfolio learning for assessing teaching and learning.In 2008, the research assesses the benefits of a multimedia e-Learning environment in a pre-college language program in engineering education, based on the moodle platform (http://moodle.elp.tuat.ac.jp/moodle/login/index.php). In order to engage a wider range of students, engineering faculty paired up with Japanese language teachers to develop an e-Learning system, creating four modules that include video lectures, auto glossary for technical terms, reading materials with narration, and two types of comprehension activities.In 2009, we collected the data of teaching methodology and materials by conducting "lesson study." We also developed the peer review system (FD Commons) to support lesson study and self reflection for educational improvement. We organized lesson study group and conducted three pilot studies during the 2009 spring term.In the final year of this research project, five faculty member and three teaching assistants participated from April, 2008 to March, 2010. Based on this practice, we reported how this collaboration between faculty developers and professors shaped our understanding of common criteria for assessing teaching and learning. The successive trials revealed the following three points : (1) reviewers comments were recorded from more descriptive view point than prescriptive and predictive viewpoints. (2) prescriptive comments related to teaching skills and methodology were repeatedly recorded during the same class observation, and (3) because of improving writing and talking skills, negative comments were reported less than at beginning with respect to basic teaching skills.