Social Contexts - Rubric

Due Date for FINAL version:

Thursday, Sept 16, midnight in your wikispace

Rubric (revised 9/10/2010)

Each criterion rated check-plus, check, check-minus, or zero.  Please note: I grade holistically, so these criteria do not carry equal weight necessarily.

1. REQUIREMENTS You met all the minimum requirements for the assignment, including

>3-5 graphs/visuals;

>research (Census Bureau, city/district/school websites, OSPI);

>written interpretation of self-selected data;

>3-5 conclusions

>works cited list

>Your final report looks and sounds like a science report. Your language is formal and "objective," without personalization.

>Everything is posted and linked in your wikispace.* [handwritten graphs and visuals, or printouts, acceptable if you have extreme difficulties with linking these into your write-up).

2. VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS Your graphs/visuals convey the information clearly and telegraphically, with appropriate labels, legends, captions, etc. You chose the right kind of graph for each data set.

3. SELECTION The data you selected to visualize and/or discuss were key to understanding the social contexts of your future students. You were selective, but at the same time, comprehensive. You didn't leave out key data, but you didn't include random information either. Your data creates a snapshot of the school.

4. ANALYSIS Your interpretations and conclusions are insightful and convincing, given the data AND our reading and class discussion in class. They are also carefully worded, without overgeneralizations and without "deficit thinking" (talking about failing students only in terms of lack).