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MPFP1023 PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN EDUCAION 2020
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 CRITERIA
                       Exemplary              Competent              Satisfactory           Needs                   Weak            TOTAL
                          9-10                   7-8                      5-6            Improvement                 1-2
                                                                                             3-4
 INTRODUCTION        Clearly discusses      Clearly discusses          Somewhat            Attempts to        Does not discuss      10 marks
                    specific points with       some of the           discusses the         discuss the        the specific points
                    relevant details and     specific points         specific points.   specific points but    with details and
                         examples           with details and        Lacks supporting     fails to provide         examples
                                                examples               details and         details and
                                                                        examples            examples
 DISCUSSION 1         Clearly discusses     Clearly discusses          Somewhat            Attempts to        Does not discuss      10 marks
                     specific points with      some of the           discusses the         discuss the        the specific points
                    relevant details and     specific points         specific points.   specific points but    with details and
                         examples           with details and        Lacks supporting     fails to provide         examples
                                                examples               details and         details and
                                                                        examples            examples
 DISCUSSION 2         Clearly discusses     Clearly discusses          Somewhat            Attempts to        Does not discuss      10 marks
                     specific points with      some of the           discusses the         discuss the        the specific points
                    relevant details and     specific points         specific points.   specific points but    with details and
                         examples           with details and        Lacks supporting     fails to provide         examples
                                                examples               details and         details and
                                                                1
                                                                                     examples              examples
DISCUSSION 3                Clearly discusses        Clearly discusses               Somewhat            Attempts to           Does not discuss         10 marks
                           specific points with         some of the                discusses the         discuss the           the specific points
                          relevant details and        specific points              specific points.   specific points but       with details and
                               examples              with details and             Lacks supporting     fails to provide            examples
                                                         examples                    details and         details and
                                                                                      examples            examples
DISCUSSION 4                Clearly discusses        Clearly discusses               Somewhat            Attempts to           Does not discuss         10 marks
                           specific points with         some of the                discusses the         discuss the           the specific points
                          relevant details and        specific points              specific points.   specific points but       with details and
                               examples              with details and             Lacks supporting     fails to provide            examples
                                                         examples                    details and         details and
                                                                                      examples            examples
CONCLUSION                Clearly summarizes         Clearly                  Able          to        Somewhat                 Does not attempt      10 marks
                          the strengths and          summarizes the           summarize               attempts      to         to or fails to
                          weaknesses of the          strengths   and          strengths   and         identify    and          identify     and
                          article                    weaknesses   of          weaknesses   of         summarize    the         summarize     the
                                                     the article              the article             strengths   and          strengths    and
                                                                                                      weaknesses    of         weaknesses     of
                                                                                                      the article              the article
REFERENCES                Adheres               to   Somewhat                 Moderately              Somewhat                 Does not adhere          10 marks
                          specified      citation    adheres          to      adheres          to     adheres          to      to        specified
                          format                     specified citation       specified citation      specified citation       citation format at
      Adequate/                                     format, with minor       format,       with      format, with major       all
       inadequate                                    transgressions           moderate                transgressions
                                                                              transgressions
      Current
      APA format 6th
       Edition
                          Shows a logical            Shows a logical          The organization of     The organization of      The organization is
ORGANIZATION        AND   organization of ideas in   organization of ideas,   ideas is not always     ideas is quite unclear   problematic or           10 marks
STRUCTURE                 constructing the overall   but may have minor       clear or does not       or ineffective           nonexistent
                          argument. The pieces       problems                 follow the thesis
                                                                              2
              flow together well to                          argument
              produce a convincing
              line of reasoning
              There are no            There are minor        There are minor         There are major         There are a
LANGUAGE                                                                                                                            10 marks
              grammatical, spelling   grammatical,           errors in               errors in               number of major
              or punctuation errors   spelling or            punctuation,            punctuation,            errors in
                                      punctuation errors     grammar and/or          grammar and/or          punctuation,
                                                             spelling which          spelling which          grammar and/or
                                                             somewhat break          interrupt the flow      spelling which
                                                             the flow for the        for the reader          make it difficult to
                                                             reader                                          read
              Writing is clear and    Writing is             Writing lacks clarity   Writing lacks clarity   Writing is
MECHANICS/                                                                                                                          10 marks
              concise; includes       accomplished in        or conciseness and      or conciseness and      unfocused,
FORMATTING
              thorough details and    terms of clarity and   contains errors;        contains numerous       rambling, or
              relevant data and       conciseness and        gives insufficient      errors; gives           contains serious
              information;            contains only a few    detail and relevant     insufficient detail     errors; lacks detail
              extremely well-         errors; includes       data and                and relevant data       and relevant data
              organized               sufficient details     information;            and information;        and information;
                                      and relevant data      generally organized     lacks organization      poorly organized
                                      and information;
                                      well-organized
TOTAL SCORE                                                                                                                         100 marks
                                                             3
4