Criteria |
Exceeds Expectations 3 points |
Meets Expectations 2 points |
Does Not Meet Expectations 1 point |
Not Evident 0 points |
Criterion Score |
Summarizes the article highlighting key points |
“Meets Expectations “criteria AND refers to the importance of why it is a key element within the article |
Succinctly highlights the key points in the article |
Shows limited evidence of highlighting the relevant and meaningful key points in the article |
Shows little to know understanding of the material and unable to highlight the key concepts |
Score of Summarizes the article highlighting key points, / 3 |
Timeliness |
Assignment is passed in on or before the due date |
Assignment is passed in one day late. |
Assignment is passsed in more than 1 day after the due date established on the syllabus. |
Assignment is not passed in. |
Score of Timeliness, / 3 |
What are the long term impacts of the issues surrounding your article? Who or what is impacted? Financial impacts? How does it impact your life or society in general? What is your overall opinion of what you read? |
“Meets Expectations” criteria AND looks to make connections to their own life and any impacts it may have on them in the future |
Student shows understanding of the material and how it impacts future growth in the field. Student displays a general understanding of the “bigger picture” |
Does not show relevancy to past, present, or future scientific advancement. Does not show an understanding of potential impacts to society. |
Does not answer any of the associated prompts |
Score of What are the long term impacts of the issues surrounding your article? Who or what is impacted? Financial impacts? How does it impact your life or society in general? What is your overall opinion of what you read?, / 3 |
Provides additional links or references that you used to help deepen your understanding of the topic |
Students provides more than 2 resources that helps to promote deeper understanding of the material. The student provides insight as to why these resources are beneficial and explain how the additional articles or links are relevant to the original article |
Student provides at least 2 other resources that are relevant to this topic and explains why this additional information is relevant to a deeper understanding of the material. |
Fewer than 2 references or links were provided (1 point) |
No additional references provided |
Score of Provides additional links or references that you used to help deepen your understanding of the topic, / 3 |
Meets page and formatting requirements. APA/works cited page. Overall effort on project (grammar, organization) |
Journal response meets formatting and page requirements, has no spelling or grammatical errors. Thoughts are well organized and expressed |
Meets minimum page requirement and follows formatting guidelines. No more than 5 spelling/grammar errors, well organized thoughts that show effort |
Does not meet page requirement or formatting guidelines. More than 5 spelling/grammar errors. Shows little effort in overall organization and structure of journal response |
Excessive grammatical and spelling errors. Thoughts are not well organized or cohere |
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