0-3 Point Grading Rubric
All student work (except preliminary essay assignments and participation) will get either 0, 1, 2, or 3 points based on the following criteria:
Fail = 0 points
- The student work fails to engage the assignment criteria in some meaningful way such as:
- Fails to address the stated topic
- fails to adequately communicate any cogent thoughts (i.e., the instructor can't understand it at all)
- Fails to follow the assignment guidelines (too short, too long, improperly formatted, etc.)
- The student work fails to engage the assignment criteria in some meaningful way such as:
Low Pass = 1 Point
- The work has no fatal shortcoming but:
- The writing is unclear or the reasoning presented is seriously flawed in key parts
- barely meets the stated requirements
- barely addresses the stated topic
- The work has no fatal shortcoming but:
Pass = 2 points
- The work is competent insofar as it:
- fulfills all the requirement of the assignment
- the writing and reasoning are generally clear and absent of major flaws
- fully addresses the stated topic
- The work is competent insofar as it:
High Pass = 3 points
- The work is excellent insofar as it:
- fulfills all the requirements of the assignment
- the writing is clear, and the reasoning is absent of all but minor flaws
- fully addresses the stated topic and provides a meaningful connection to some matter of importance beyond that topic.
- The work is excellent insofar as it: