SELF-ASSESSMENT GRID OF INTERCULTURAL ONLINE COLLABORATION
Name: __________________________________
IC
Development
Areas
Minimal Developing Quality-based Exemplary
Cultural
differences
I think I display
intolerance/defens
e against cultural
differences during
online exchange.
I understand
there are
different values
and beliefs but I
think that my
own beliefs are
correct.
I can identify at
least two cultural
differences or
incidents during
the online
exchange that
helped me
understand the
cultural impact of
self/other on the
online exchange.
I’m curious and
respectful of
cultural
differences and
can examine
things from the
other cultural
perspectives.
Challenges in
online
communicatio
n
I tend to blame
online partners for
miscommunication
during exchange
I reflect on and
try to pinpoint
cause of any
miscommunicatio
n during the
online exchange.
I have at least one
strategy for
dealing with
online
miscommunicatio
n.
I use more than
one strategy to
mitigate
miscommunicatio
n, evaluate them
based on acquired
knowledge of
partners’
background and
explore
alternatives.
Critical
thinking
I think that online
exchange provides
an opportunity for
language
improvement but I
was not able to
learn other types
of knowledge from
online partners.
An online
exchange is for
me an
opportunity to
build a bigger
picture of the role
of culture in
education.
I use online
exchange to
actively seek
partners’ opinions
and learn their
perspectives on
education.
I use online
exchange to
interrogate the
influence of
culture on
education and
social practices on
the local and
global level.
Adopted from Dooly, M. (2017) Please Remove Your Avatar From My Personal Space. In R. O’Dowd
and T. Lewis (Eds), Online Intercultural Exchange: Policy, Pedagogy, Practice (pp. 192-208). New York:
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Your task is to use the grid to self-assess your intercultural competence development in intercultural
online collaboration.
1. For each IC development area in the first column – Cultural differences, Challenges in online
communication, Critical thinking – mark in which stage (minimal, developing, quality-based,
exemplary) you find yourself. Please, be truthful to yourself.
2. Explain your choice of a stage (from minimal to exemplary) in two to three sentences. You
need to write about all the three IC development areas.