Research/Wiki on Moodle
10pt - 9pt ran    8pt - 7pt ran
 CATEGORY ge                   ge               6pt - 5pt range 4pt - 3pt range
Organization Information is    Information      Information is The
             very              is organized     organized, but information
             organized         with well-       paragraphs      appears to be
             with well-        constructed      are not well-   disorganized.
             constructed       paragraphs.      constructed.    8)
             paragraphs
             and
             subheadings.
Amount of     All topics are   All topics are   All topics are One or more
Information   addressed        addressed        addressed,     topics were not
              and all          and most         and most       addressed.
              questions        questions        questions
              answered         answered         answered with
              with at least    with at least    1 sentence
              2 sentences      2 sentences      about each.
              about each.      about each.
Quality of    Information     Information       Information       Information
Information   clearly relates clearly           clearly relates   has little or
              to the main     relates to        to the main       nothing to do
              topic. It       the main          topic. No         with the main
              includes        topic. It         details and/or    topic.
              several         provides 1-2      examples are
              supporting      supporting        given.
              details and/or details
              examples.       and/or
                              examples.
Paragraph    All               Most             Paragraphs        Paragraphing
Construction paragraphs        paragraphs       included          structure was
             include           include          related           not clear and
             introductory      introductory     information       sentences
             sentence,         sentence,        but were          were not
             explanations      explanations     typically not     typically
             or details,       or details,      constructed       related within
             and               and              well.             the
             concluding        concluding                         paragraphs.
             sentence.         sentence.
Presentation to Board
            10pt - 9pt ran     8pt - 7pt ran
 CATEGORY ge                   ge            6pt - 5pt range 4pt - 3pt range
Information All                Most          Most            Information
            information        information information       had several
            presented in       presented in presented in     inaccuracies
            the debate         the debate the debate         OR was usually
            was clear,         was clear,    was clear and not clear.
            accurate and       accurate and accurate, but
            thorough.          thorough.     was not
                                             usually
                                             thorough.
Use of         Every major    Every major Every major         Every point
Facts/Statisti point was      point was     point was         was not
cs             well           adequately supported with supported.
               supported      supported     facts, statistics
               with several   with relevant and/or
               relevant       facts,        examples, but
               facts,         statistics    the relevance
               statistics     and/or        of some was
               and/or         examples.     questionable.
               examples.
Understandin The team         The team        The team          The team did
g of Topic   clearly          clearly         seemed to         not show an
             understood       undestood       understand        adequate
             the topic in-    the topic in-   the main          understanding
             depth and        depth and       points of the     of the topic.
             presented        presented       topic and
             their            their           presented
             information      information     those with
             forcefully and   with ease.      ease.
             convincingly.
Organization All arguments Most               All arguments     Arguments
             were clearly arguments           were clearly      were not
             tied to an    were clearly       tied to an idea   clearly tied to
             idea          tied to an         (premise) but     an idea
             (premise) and idea               the               (premise).
             organized in (premise)           organization
             a tight,      and                was
             logical       organized in       sometimes not
             fashion.      a tight,           clear or
                           logical            logical.
                           fashion.
Press Release on Class Website
               10pt - 9pt     8pt – 7pt       6pt – 5pt
  CATEGORY     range          range           range             4pt – 3pt range
Grammar &      Writer makes   Writer          Writer makes      Writer makes
spelling       no errors in   makes 1-2       3-4 errors in     more than 4
(conventions   grammar or     errors in       grammar           errors in
)              spelling.      grammar         and/or spelling   grammar
                              and/or                            and/or spelling.
                              spelling.
Content        The letter     The letter      The letter        The letter
Accuracy       contains at    contains 3-4    contains 1-2      contains no
               least 5        accurate        accurate facts    accurate facts
               accurate       facts about     about the         about the
               facts about    the topic.      topic.            topic.
               the topic.
Ideas   Ideas were     Ideas were     Ideas were        The letter
        expressed in   expressed in   somewhat          seemed to be a
        a clear and    a pretty       organized, but    collection of
        organized      clear          were not very     unrelated
        fashion. It    manner, but    clear. It took    sentences. It
        was easy to    the            more than one     was very
        figure out     organization   reading to        difficult to
        what the       could have     figure out        figure out what
        letter was     been better.   what the letter   the letter was
        about.                        was about.        about.