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Political Compass Response

The document provides instructions for students to complete a political compass test online in order to determine their own political beliefs and positions. It explains that understanding where one falls on the political spectrum is important both for the course and as a global citizen. Students are asked to complete the test, review their results, and write a 3-6 sentence paragraph explaining why knowing their political positioning is significant using the PEE (Point, Evidence, Explanation) format. Their work will be evaluated on a rubric assessing insight and relevance, personal interest, flow and understandability, and freedom from errors.

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Political Compass Response

The document provides instructions for students to complete a political compass test online in order to determine their own political beliefs and positions. It explains that understanding where one falls on the political spectrum is important both for the course and as a global citizen. Students are asked to complete the test, review their results, and write a 3-6 sentence paragraph explaining why knowing their political positioning is significant using the PEE (Point, Evidence, Explanation) format. Their work will be evaluated on a rubric assessing insight and relevance, personal interest, flow and understandability, and freedom from errors.

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Situating Yourself on the Political Compass


Objective: To learn your own placement on the political compass and understand why it is important,
as both a student in this course and as a global citizen, to know where you are situated on the
political compass.

Instructions:
1. Go the website www.politicalcompass.org
2. Read through the introductory page and click on the “take the test link” at the bottom.
3. Work slowly through the six pages of questions answering each one honestly. Remember,
there are no right answers. When you finish the questions, click “see where you stand”.
4. Read through your results.
5. Click show chart in separate window. Print your results. You will be referencing these
results later on in the course.
6. Use the P.E.E. Template to answer the following question: Why is it important to know
where you are situated on the political compass?
7. Write a three to six sentence P.E.E. paragraph.

You will be marked using the following rubric:

Category Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Level R

Very insightful and Insightful and Somewhat Lacking in No insight


relevant. Personal relevant. insightful and both or
T/I interest and/or Personal interest relevant. Personal domains. relevance.
curiosity is highly is evident. interest is
evident somewhat evident.

9.8 9.5 9.2 8.8 8.5 8.2 7.8 7.5 7.2 6.8 6.5 7.2 5.8 5.5 5.2 <5

Excellent flow and Good flow and Fair flow and Poor flow No flow.
very clearly clearly somewhat clearly and not
C understood. Void understood. understood. Not clearly
of errors. Mostly void of void of errors. understood.
errors. Many errors.

9.8 9.5 9.2 8.8 8.5 8.2 7.8 7.5 7.2 6.8 6.5 6.2 5.8 5.5 5.2 <5

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