Rubric for Article Review

weight
Criteria Exemplary Effective Minimal Unsatisfactory

 In depth and well-  Content is adequately  Content is minimally  Content is not organized
Organization organized content organized and organized  Length requirement is not
 Meets length comprehensive  Length requirement is not met; poor content
& Content of 50%
requirement with quality  Length requirement is met met; minimal content  Incomplete summary
Review content with adequate content  Basic summary  Evidence of plagiarism
 Excellent summary  Adequate summary
 Relevant to assigned  Relevant to assigned  Minimal relevance to  Not relevant to assigned
subject matter and peer subject matter assigned subject matter subject matter
Appropriate
25% interest  Article content meets  Article content fails to  Fails to meet content
Topic  Article content exceeds expectations meet all requirements requirements
requirements
 Article has great  Article has some  Article has little  Article has no significance
significance significance significance  Summary does not meet
 Student summary exceeds  Student summary meets  Summary meets minimal minimal expectations
average peer perspective project expectations expectations  No understanding of
15%
Significance and understanding  Some understanding of  Little understanding of article’s relevance
 Student displays article’s relevance to topic article’s relevance to topic
understanding of article’s 
relevance to topic
 Article has no grammatical  Article has few  Article has a number of  Article is
Grammar 10% error grammatical error grammatical errors incomprehensible because
of grammatical error

Assignment Score ______________ + Beyonder/Bonus ______________ = Final Score ________________

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