Curriculum Design & Implementation Challenges

ED 533 Curriculum Foundations Case Study Guidelines and Rubric

Prompt: Case studies are integral to this course and to the education setting. Careful analysis of each case study is required. When an analysis is completed, it should read a narrative of summarizing, explaining your findings, and your recommendations for solving the given problem.

Guidelines for Submission: Your case study should be a minimum of 4 pages Word document, double spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA citations and a cover and reference page.

Critical Elements Requirements

2 points 1 point 0 Point Value

Identification of the main issues and/or problems

ALL Issues and/or problem identified in the case study.

Identifies and understands all the main issues in the case study.

Identifies and understands some of the main issue in the case study.

Does not identify and understands the main issues in the case study.

Literature of Review Articles and/or references must be within last 7 years.

Excellent research and documented associations between problems or questions and key course concepts and some (2 or more) use of corroborating sources.

Limited research and associations between the problems or questions and key course concepts and no use of corroborating sources.

Incomplete research and associations between the problems or questions and key course concepts and no use of corroborating sources.

Analysis of the key issues ALL issues must be analyzed.

Insightful and thorough analysis of all the key issues.

Incomplete analysis of some of the key issues.

Incomplete analysis of the key issues.

Effective solutions and/or recommendations

MUST provide method of comparison between alternatives.

Well-reasoned, logical and documented comments on solutions, or proposals for solutions, to all issues stated in the case study.

Shallow analysis of solutions or recommendations with some evaluation method.

Incomplete analysis of solutions or recommendations with no evaluation method.

Writing Skills/Professional Presentation

MUST include overall composition, structure, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and APA citation.

There are no spelling or grammatical errors. Ideas are clearly presented and references are used and cited.

There are a several spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. Some ideas are clearly presented. Some references are not cited.

There are many spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. Ideas are hard to follow. References are not used nor cited.

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