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Grading Criteria

Weekly Assignments

The assignments for this course require more than browsing, grazing, and collecting other people’s ideas. Grades are based on demonstrating that you are taking the time to challenge those ideas or you can build and discuss ideas of your own.

Each of the weekly assignments will be graded against the following criteria. Although the number of points for the assignments vary, this is an indication of how points are awarded and the relative importance of the criteria. Some assignments say "2-3 sentences" as a guideline but you are not limited to this. Write more to make your point if you need to.


 * Thoughtful analysis of the issue - Why is this important? Includes brief statement about the issue.
 * Commentary providing your personal opinion - What do you think?
 * Impact on society - So what?
 * College level writing. Deductions for grammar and/or spelling errors
 * Extra points for particularly insightful replies that exceed the requirement for this assignment.

Projects

Projects are required to demonstrate college-level writing. Each project requires references to other work. These references must be cited in APA (American Psychological Association) format. For more information about APA (American Psychological Association) formatting, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Each project is scored in each category according to the criteria above. Grade 1-4 (4 is best).

Final Project Summary

Everyone will get 2 grades – one for the paper – everyone on the team will get the same.

The second grade, Final Project Summary, is for your participation. The participation grade is based on your comments, feedback from the team and my review of discussions and shared information relating to the project work. This grade is intended to weight the impact of the Final Project grade so that the combined score takes into account the quality of the group project and the effort of the individual. The total score fairly represents the grade earned by each group member.

Participation scores


 * outstanding contribution, competent group leadership, extensive participation
 * good participation, extra effort, took on additional duties, finished/fixed work not completed by other members, significant contribution to team's success
 * adequate participation and effort, did minimum required
 * effort and contribution less then adequate, put extra burden on other members