Evaluation
Evaluation is an ongoing process. Students should be observed throughout the project and assessed on their creativity, work habits, group communication skills and attitude. Below are two grading rubrics that can be used to give students summative assessments based on specific aspects of the project andÝ the group and individual requirements. Students can earn up to 80 points on the individual portion of the project and 20 points on the group project.
Individual Rubric
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Beginning 0 points 1 |
Developing 10 points 2 |
Accomplished 20 points 3 |
Exemplary 30 points 4 |
Score |
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Organization of Written Report
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Information is unorganized; many grammatical and spelling errors. |
Information is fairly well organized with more than 5 typographical errors. |
Information is organized in some manner; few typographical errors |
Information is well organized; no
typographical errors. |
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Amount of Information Gathered
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Very brief answers provided with little description of topics. Some unanswered questions |
Brief answers with most topics addressed |
Topic covered with appropriate answers; all questions addressed |
Topic covered with detailed information
and all of the questions are addressed |
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Quality of Information
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Information was not represent the
topic or incomplete |
Information has little to do with the topic, it was satisfactorily developed but not persuasive. |
Information was appropriate to the topic, was satisfactorily developed and lacked persuasiveness. |
Information was very detailed, represents
the topic clearly, well-developed and thoroughly persuasive. |
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Role
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Information was not accurate |
Information gathered was very brief and inaccurate |
Information gathered held relevance
to the topic |
Information gathered was relevant
and accurate to the topic for all three regions. |
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Required Elements |
Student included less than three paragraphs and did not produce a visual |
Student included most information
with an incomplete visual requirement |
Student completed the minimum three paragraph requirement and the visual requirment |
Student included more than the three
paragraph requirement and complete visual requirement |
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Group Presentation Rubric
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Beginning |
Developing |
Accomplished |
Group
Score |
| Group Cooperation
in Combining Expert Research and Oral Presentation |
0 points Not All Group Members Contribute to Final Work |
5 points Few Problems with Group Cooperation |
10 points Group Members Are Respectful of Each Other/ Work Well Towards
Common Goal |
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| Experts Report Accurate
and Persuasive Facts about the American Colonies |
0 points Opinion Only/Does Not Support With Research |
3 points Research Reported but With Some Inaccuracy |
5 points Persuasive Argument Is Well Supported By Accurate Research
and |
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| The Appearance and
Creativity of Both the Written and Oral Presentation |
0 points Messy/Unorganized Presentation/Does Not Persuade Audience |
3 points Little Creativity and Attention to Detail of Presentations |
5 points Well Organized, Interesting, and Persuasive Presentation |
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