Education 316/316G - Children's & Adolescent Literature
Spring, 2007

Rubric for the assessment of final project due April 30th

Strong

5

Proficient

3

Beginning

1

Thought and Effort
Considerable care and effort has been put into the selection of a topic and the development of the project. Project evinces your personal engagement in the work. Topic is appropriate and the development of the project is adequate. Project shows a basic level of your personal involvement. Topic and project appear perfunctory and designed simply to complete the course requirement. Little level of personal engagement.
Project Creativity
The level of creativity you put into designing and carrying out your project indicates deep engagement with the topic and your work. You exhibit an adequate level of creative engagement with the project. Project manifests little creativity and conveys a sense of minimalist focus on completion.
Level of Critical Analysis
The project allows you to select some aspect of children's or adolescent literature and to explore it deeply, employing a powerful level of critical analysis. The project explores some aspect of children's or adolescent literature providing an adequate level of critical analysis. Project is generally unfocused and does not allow you to engage in a thoughtful or critical analysis of any particular aspect of children's or adolescent literature.
Quality of Final Presentation
Final presentation is thoughtful, well designed, and helps the class understand the nature of your work in this course over the past semester. Presentation is appropriate, adequately designed, and provides and overview of your project. Final presentation appears thrown together, does not engage your peers and does not adequately convey your work on this project.
Writing and Organization

Final submission is well composed and written, with no grammatical or spelling errors.

Final submission is well composed and written, with few grammatical or spelling errors.

Final submission is not well composed or written, and contains many errors.

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