GENERAL SCORING RUBRIC

CATEGORY
4

The student completes all important components of the task and

communicates ideas clearly.
The student demonstrates in-depth understanding of the relevant concepts
and/or processes.
Where appropriate, the student chooses more efficient and/or sophisticated
processes.

Where appropriate, the student offers insightful interpretations or

extensions (generalizations, applications, analogies).

The student completes most important components of the task and

communicates clearly.

The student demonstrates understanding of major concepts even though

he/she overlooks or misunderstands some less important ideas or details.

The student completes some important components of the task and

communicates those clearly.

The student demonstrates that there are gaps in his/her conceptual

understanding.

The student shows minimal understanding.

The student addresses only a small portion of the required task(s).

CATEGORY
0

Response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.

BLANK

No response.

CATEGORY
3

CATEGORY
2

CATEGORY
1

This task was scored using the general score point descriptions above and the following scoring
strategy.
Each of the four sections of the task was assigned a score from 0-4. According to how well that
section had been fulfilled by the students. The following chart was then used to convert that total
score to a final score.
TOTAL
0-2
3-5
6-9
10-12
13-16

FINAL SCORE
0
1
2
3
4

Scorers felt that the scores arrived at by this method accurately reflected the level of proficiency
shown in the responses.