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

 

 

  < 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