f/2004 revised
Case Study Scoring Rubrics
ELED 3120: The Elementary School Child (200 points)
CONTENT |
UNACCEPTABLE |
ACCEPTABLE |
TARGET (points) |
Max Points |
Your Score |
Preliminary Information
|
< 10 points Missing or inaccurate contact info, any missing or inaccurate FERPA info, incomplete school background |
NA |
10 points Complete and accurate reporting of contact info (4), FERPA info (2), and school background (4)
|
10 |
|
Physical Development |
< 18 points Incomplete – height or weight norms from CDC web site; two examples each of fine and gross motor skill development; handedness; valid comparisons with text or class norms on physical development |
18-26 points Inaccurate – height or weight norms from CDC web site; OR fewer than two examples each of fine and gross motor skill development; handedness; OR incomplete comparisons with text or class norms on physical development |
28-30 points Complete and accurate: height and weight norms from CDC web site (8); two examples each of fine and gross motor skill development (12); handedness (2); valid comparisons with text or class norms on physical development (8) |
30 |
|
Cognitive Development |
< 18 points Major errors in task administration; missing quotations, assimilation rules, or descriptions; or inaccurate stage determination |
18-26 points Mostly correct task administration; OR partly complete or partly accurate reporting of reasoning quotations, assimilation rules & descriptions, cognitive stage |
28-30 points Tasks administered correctly (6); complete reasoning quotations (4); accurate assimilation rules (6); accurate descriptions of assimilation rules (10), accurate cognitive stage (4) |
30 |
|
Language Development |
< 18 points Substantial departure from standard task administration; or no examples of response types; or incomplete analysis of P-S shift, metalinguistic awareness, or pragmatics; or no comparisons with norms given in class |
18-26 points Mostly correct task administration; OR underreporting of required examples, inaccurate analysis of P-S shift, metalinguistic awareness, or pragmatics; OR incomplete comparisons with norms given in class |
28-30 points Report frequencies of response types for two tasks (10); report two examples of 4 major response types (10); accurately determine – position in P-S shift and display line graph (10), |
15 |
|
Socio – Emotional Development
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< 18 points Inaccurate Eriksonian stage; no crisis examples; incomplete friendship stage and analysis; incomplete moral development stage and analysis |
18-26 points Accurate Eriksonian stage; or inaccurate crisis examples; OR inaccurate friendship stage or analysis; OR inaccurate moral development stage or analysis |
28-30 points Accurate Eriksonian stage (4) and two crisis examples (8); accurate friendship analysis (6); accurate moral development stage and analysis (12) |
30 |
|
Optimal Learning Environment |
< 12 points No summary of KEY findings; OR incomplete classroom environment strategies; OR incomplete instructional strategies; OR general statements unconnected to data or class or text learning |
12-16 points Incomplete or inaccurate summary of KEY findings; OR classroom strategies not tied to data or grounded in class or text learning; OR instructional strategies not tied to data or grounded in class or text learning |
18-20 points Accurate summary of KEY findings (10); two classroom environment strategies tied to data and grounded in class or text learning (4); three instructional strategies tied to data and grounded in class or text learning (6) |
20 |
|
Writing Mechanics |
< 18 points Consistent punctuation, spelling, pronoun, grammar, capitalization, or wording errors |
18 - 26 points Occasional, inconsistent punctuation, spelling, pronoun, grammar, capitalization, or wording errors |
28 - 30 points Absence of punctuation, spelling, pronoun, grammar, capitalization, and wording errors (30) |
30 |
|
Technology and Formatting |
< 12 points Incomplete graphs for language tasks or P-S shift timeline; OR no email address; or unBOLDed or unitalicized text |
12 - 16 points Inaccurate graphs for language tasks or P-S shift timeline; OR inaccurate email address; OR partial BOLD or italicized text; OR inappropriate font size or type; OR nonstandard margins |
18 -20 points Two accurate graphs for language tasks (8); accurate P-S shift timeline (2); accurate email address (2); BOLDed writing prompts (2); italicized responses (2); accurate font size and type (2); default margins (2) |
20 |
|
Tardiness: Case studies are due at a time and date specified in the course syllabus. Late reports will be penalized according to the
following schedule: - 5 = less than one day late; -10 = 1 day to 1 week late; -20 = 1 week to 2 weeks late. Reports
turned in more than two weeks late are unacceptable and will receive a “0.”
Plagiarism: Students may not copy files or portions of files from one another, and any information or ideas not of the student’s
origin must have class, text, or other appropriate citation. The penalty for plagiarism is an “F” in the course.
Penalty: Case studies that exceed the maximum page limit will be penalized 10 points.
Total = 100 points
Revised 8-24-04