Assessment Rubric: Birth of the Internet

Essay (20 marks)

Criteria Excellent (100%-85%) Good (84%-70%) Fair (69%-50%) Poor (49%-30%) Inadequate (29%-0%)
Quality of The essay is well The essay is well The essay provides a The essay is poorly The essay lacks research,
research and researched and provides researched and provides basic account of the researched, and the and the account of the
content a detailed account of the a good account of the important players account of the important important players
[8 Marks] important players important players involved in the players involved in the involved in the
involved in the involved in the development of the development of the development of the
development of the development of the internet, their internet, their internet, their
internet, their internet, their relationships, and relationships, and relationships, and
relationships, and relationships, and connections. There may connections is inadequate. connections is
connections. It is connections. There may be some significant There may be significant nonexistent. There are
properly cited with no be minor errors in citation errors in citation and errors in citation and significant errors in
factual errors. and some factual errors. factual errors. factual errors. citation and factual
errors.
Structure and The essay has a clear and The essay has a clear The essay has a basic The essay has a poor The essay lacks structure
Organization concise structure and is structure and is structure but may lack structure and is poorly and is poorly organized,
[5 Marks] well-organized, making organized, making it easy organization, making it organized, making it making it impossible to
it easy to read and to read and understand. somewhat difficult to difficult to read and read and understand. It
understand. Each Each member's read and understand. understand. Each is unclear what each
member's contribution is contribution is Each member's member's contribution is member has contributed.
clearly identifiable. identifiable but may not contribution may not be unclear.
be clearly articulated. clearly identifiable.
Writing The essay is well written, The essay is well written, The essay is adequately The essay is poorly The essay is very poorly
Quality with clear, concise, and with mostly clear and written, with some clear written, with many written, with many
[7 Marks] grammatically correct grammatically correct and grammatically unclear and unclear and
sentences. The language sentences. The language correct sentences. The grammatically incorrect grammatically incorrect
is appropriate for an is mostly appropriate for language may not sentences. The language sentences. The language
academic essay. an academic essay. always be appropriate is not appropriate for an is not appropriate for an
for an academic essay. academic essay. academic essay.
Presentation (30 marks)
Criteria Excellent (100%-85%)
Content Clearly summarizes the
[10 essential aspects of the
Marks] family tree created in the
essay. It is well-organized
and logical, with detailed
analysis.
Modalities It is well-organized and
[15 logical, with detailed
Marks] analysis. The use of
animations, videos, GIFs,
pics, colors, audios, and
music are appropriate and
they enhance the content.
Technical The presentation is no
[5 Marks] longer than 25 seconds and
is in MP4 format. It uses
any application of
presentation such as Prezi,
PowerPoint, etc. The
presentation has no
technical errors such as
audio or video
malfunctions.
Good (84%-70%)
It summarizes most of the
essential aspects of the
family tree created in the
essay. It is mostly well-
organized and logical, with
some analysis.
It is mostly well-organized
and logical, with some
analysis and proper use of
animations, videos, GIFs,
pics, colors, audios, and
music to enhance the
content.
The presentation is no longer
than 25 seconds and is in
MP4 format. The
presentation uses any
application of presentation
such as Prezi, PowerPoint,
etc. The presentation has
minor technical errors such
as audio or video
malfunctions.
Fair (69%-50%) Poor (49%-30%) Inadequate (29%-0%)
It summarizes some of the It summarizes a few of It does not summarize
essential aspects of the the essential aspects of the essential aspects of
family tree created in the the family tree created the family tree created
essay. It is somewhat in the essay. It is in the essay. It is
organized and logical, poorly organized and unorganized and
with limited analysis. logical, with little illogical, with no
analysis. analysis.
It is somewhat organized It is poorly organized It is unorganized and
and logical, with limited and logical, with little illogical, with no
analysis and proper use of analysis and improper analysis |no proper use
animations, videos, GIFs, use of animations, of animations, videos,
pics, colors, audios, and videos, GIFs, pics, GIFs, pics, colors,
music to enhance the colors, audios, and audios, and music to
content. music to enhance the enhance the content.
content.
The presentation is no The presentation is The presentation is
longer than 25 seconds little longer than 25 longer than 25 seconds
and is in MP4 format. The seconds and is in MP4 and is in MP4 format.
presentation uses an format. The The presentation does
appropriate application. presentation uses an not use an appropriate
The presentation has appropriate application. The
several technical errors application. The presentation has many
such as audio or video presentation has technical defects.
malfunctions. several technical
defects.