I.

ESSAY WRITING RUBRICS

A. Holistic Rubric
This rubric attempts to evaluate the output of the students, based on the identified criteria:

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1 Rating Score

CONTENT The essay The essay The essay The essay
60% shows a illustrates an shows an illustrates an
comprehensive adequate output with output with a
output with output with some lacking very short
complete enough parts and content to the
parts, and composition of information. topic.
outstanding ideas.
composition of
ideas.
ORGANIZATION The essay The essay The essay The essay
10% shows a clear illustrates an shows an illustrates an
path of ideas, organization output with output with a
showing a with few some lot of
determined ambiguity. identified ambiguity, and
organization. misleading misleading
transitions that information.
makes it
choppy.
EXPLANATION The essay The essay The essay The essay
20% shows a illustrates an shows an illustrates an
thorough adequate output with output with
analysis and explanation of explanation, full of
explanation each ideas, yet needs unrelated ideas
with scientific with scientific more time to to the topic.
evidences. evidences. revise and
explain further.
MECHANICS The essay The essay The essay The essay
10% shows no error illustrates a shows a shows more
in spelling, maximum of maximum of than five
capitalization, two mistakes five mistakes in mistakes in
grammar, etc. in spelling, spelling, spelling,
capitalization, capitalization, capitalization,
grammar, etc. grammar, etc. grammar, etc.

B. Analytic Rubric
This rubric attempts to evaluate the output of the students based on its content, organization,
explanation, and mechanics.

EXCELLENT (100 points) OUTSTANDING (95 GOOD (80 points) POOR (60 points)
points)
 The essay is full  The essay  The essay is good  The essay lacks
 of detailed ideas contains enough enough, yet lacks many relevant
that are information that some relevant information
appropriate and are related to the information. related to the
related to the topic.  The essay is quite topic.
topic.  The essay is choppy. There  The essay is
 The essay is very smooth and no are some choppy. There
organize, hence misleading misleading and are a lot of errors
no choppiness. information. out of the topic. which lead to
 The essay is reach  The essay has an  The essay has an different
in explanation, in-depth in-depth understanding to
analysis, and explanation, with explanation, with the topic
examples. few unrelated few unrelated  The essay has
 The essay is free ideas. ideas. only short
from mechanics  The essay has a  The essay has a explanation.
error (e.g. maximum of maximum of  There are a lot of
grammar) three mechanics three mechanics errors in
error (e.g. error (e.g. mechanics (e.g.
grammar) grammar) grammar)

II. DRAWING/ ILLUSTRATIONS

A. Analytic Rubric
This rubric focuses on the quantitative evaluation of the drawing contest held in ESSAC last June 2,
1997.

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1 Rating Score

CONTENT The art drawing The art has The drawing has The drawing is
40% is indeed reach relevant ambiguity in ambiguous,
in ideas and the content to the relation to the and full of
illustrations are topic given things being unrelated
related to the with few drawn. concept and
topic. unrelated ideas.
ones.
CREATIVITY The art is full of The drawing is The drawing is The drawing is
25% innovativeness creative, yet not that creative not applying
and the material to give its creativity, thru
resourcefulness used is not innovativeness. its techniques
in the material durable. and materials
use and used, and
techniques used. common to
most people.
ORIGINALITY The art is unique The drawing is The drawing is The drawing is
15% and no unique with almost covered plagiarized.
plagiarism. some adapted with adapted
features. features.
MESSAGE The message is The message is The message is The drawing’s
20% impactful that is good enough. good, yet need message is not
motivating and more time to convincing.
 believable. revise the
drawing.

B. Holistic Rubric
This rubric focuses on the evaluation of the students’ output in drawing contest based on the pre-
determined scores.

HIGHLY SKILLED (100 COMPETITIVE (90 GOOD (80 points) POOR (60 points)
points) points)
 The drawing is  The drawing is  The drawing  The drawing is
reach in relevant reach in relevant needs some not reach in
ideas that can be ideas that can be relevant information that
conveyed. conveyed. information. can be inferred to
 The drawing is  The drawing is  The drawing is the drawing.
very resourceful resourceful not that creative.  The drawing is
and highly enough, but  The drawing has not creative. It is
attractive. needs some final some adapted dry.
 The drawing is polishing time. features.  The drawing is
distinct to the  The drawing is  The message of plagiarized.
owner. distinct to the the drawing is not  The drawing’s
 The message of owner. that impactful. message is not
the drawing is  The message of convincing.
convincing. the drawing is
not that
impactful.

III. PROBLEM-SOLVING RUBRICS

A. Analytic Rubric
This rubric concern about situations that can be applied thru problem-solving skills. This will assess the
written output of the students based on the given criteria:

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1 Rating Score

CONTENT The output is The output The output lack The output lack
60% complete in all lacks one part. two parts. more than two
parts of the parts.
project.
PROBLEM The problem in The problem is The problem is The problem is
IDENTIFICATIO each situations determined, yet not determined not determined
N are correctly incomplete. correctly, but correctly.
10% determined. has a point.
ORGANIZATION The output The output The output The output
10% follows the follows only almost does not does not follow
format on some selected follow the the format.
problem-solving format. correct format,
circumstances. and some are
 interchanged.
FEASIBILITY The solutions to The solutions to The solutions to The solutions to
20% the problems the problems the problems the problems
are practical, are reasonable, are quite are impractical
reasonable, and but quite subjective, and and subjective.
objective. impractical to needs some
the situations. revision.

B. Holistic Rubric
This rubric concern problem-solving situations. This aim to grade the students’ written output based on
its content, identification of the problem, organization of ideas, and the feasibility of the answers.

EXPERT (20 points) PROFICIENT (18 points) GOOD (16 points) POOR (12 points)
 The output  The output  The output lacks  The output lack
obtains a obtains a a 1-2 parts of the more than three
complete set of complete set of project. parts of the
information, information,  The problem is project.
following some following some correct but not  The problem is
complete parts of complete parts of precise. not correctly
the project. the project.  The output identified.
 The problem is  The problem is follows the  The output does
precisely correct. correct but not format of solving not follows the
 The output precise. problems, yet format of solving
follows the  The output there are parts problems.
format of solving follows the that are  The suggested
problems. format of solving interchanged. solutions are not
 The suggested problems.  The suggested effective.
solutions derived  The suggested solutions are
from the solutions are good, but needs
problems were adequately good to be revised to
compatibly to solve the make it more
practical, problem. feasible.
reasonable, and
objective.