Final Research

Grading Rubric:

We will be playing a stock market game for approximately 8 weeks. Below are the rules of the game, which you

should read carefully. Failure to meet all the requirements of the game will negatively impact your grade on the

project. You must submit the final presentation in the form of a report with expected length 5 pages long

at the minimum excluding the cover page and the bibliography.

Your grade on the project will consist of the following items:

1. Research articles on these stocks: Delta Airlines (DAL) and IBM

The articles on these two stocks should be recent within the last 5 years. The articles should be

focused on:

a) the company history

b) major competitors

c) major products

d) extent of globalization and

e) future prospects/ projects/ long term growth outlook of the company.

2. Completely answering the questions on the rubric sheet. (Don’t worry about the spreadsheet

and graph, I already have them)

3. Neatness and creativity.

Please note that your grade will NOT be based on how your “investments” perform, i.e., whether or not

you make money. 8 weeks is an extremely brief time in the life of the stock market; the purpose of the

game is to develop an understanding of how the market operates, and how investing is accomplished.

Grading Rubric for Stock Project

Number

of Points

Company

Research

Setting up the

Spreadsheet

Completing

the graph

Presentation

Quality

5 Amount of Amount of All 8 data points are neatly plotted with evidence of continuous tracking.

Professional looking;;

information goes information goes colorful;; no

above minimum above minimum;; grammatical errors

guidelines;; research is

information is summarized in a

organized and well-­written and

accurate interesting way.

4 Amount of Amount of Only 6 data points are neatly plotted with evidence of continuous tracking.

Nice execution, may

information meets information meets the

have minor errors

minimum guidelines;;

minimum;; research is

information is summarized in a

organized and well-­written and

accurate interesting way

3 Amount of Amount of Only 4 data points are neatly plotted with evidence of continuous tracking

Pretty rough, lots of

information meets information meets the

errors

minimum guidelines;;

minimum;; research is

information is summarized in

accurate adequately

2 Amount of

information does

not meet minimum

guidelines;;

Amount of

information does

not meets the

minimum

requirement

Only 2 or less than 2

data points are neatly

plotted with evidence of

continuous tracking

Amateur work,

errors distract from

information

A: 18-20 B: 16-17 C: 14-15 D: 12-13 F: 0-11

These scores will be converted to a grade out of 20 points.