SCORING RUBRIC

GENERAL SCORING RUBRIC

Each of the four sections outlined as the procedures to be used in the task can be scored using these general scoring categories.

CATEGORY 4	The student completes all important components of the task and communicates ideas clearly. The student demonstrates in-depth understanding of the relevant concepts and/or processes. Where appropriate, the student chooses more efficient and/or sophisticated processes. Where appropriate, the student offers insightful interpretations or extensions (generalizations, applications, analogies).
CATEGORY 3	The student completes most important components of the task and communicates clearly. The student demonstrates understanding of major concepts even though he/she overlooks or misunderstands some less important ideas or details.
CATEGORY 2	The student completes some important components of the task and communicates those clearly. The student demonstrates that there are gaps in his/her conceptual understanding.
CATEGORY 1	The student shows minimal understanding. The student addresses only a small portion of the required task(s).
CATEGORY 0	Response is totally incorrect or irrelevant.
BLANK	No response.

This task was scored using the general score point descriptions above and the following scoring strategy.

Each of the four sections of the task was assigned a score from 0-4. According to how well that section had been fulfilled by the students. The following chart was then used to convert that total score to a final score.

Scorers felt that the scores arrived at by this method accurately reflected the level of proficiency shown in the responses.