The Crusades

Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Content 70%

Advanced 90–100%

Proficient 70–89%

Developing 1–69%

Not present

Overall Content

63 to 70 points

Adequate length; Good focus, good summarization of the subjects; orderly development; assertions are clearly supported and/or illustrated.

49 to 62 points

Inadequate or minimal length; mostly focused; summarization of the subjects needs some improvement; thoughts randomly organized and presented; assertions weakly supported and/or illustrated.

1 to 48 points

Very inadequate length; summarization of the subjects needs much improvement; lacks understanding of subject; disorganized; does not prove point, if one can be discerned.

0 points

Not present

Research and Sources

63 to 70 points

Consists of relevant materials and effective topic and research; appropriate depth and length of assignment; number of citations and sources adequate for assignment.

49 to 62 points

Some citations made; sources generally appropriate; number of citations and sources minimally adequate for assignment.

1 to 48 points

Citations are very few or non-existent; inappropriate citation.

0 points

Not present

Structure 30%

Advanced 90–100%

Proficient 70–89%

Developing 1–69%

Not present

Organization and Structure

18 to 20 points

Clear introduction; clear and appropriate transitions; organization emphasizes the topics; appropriate paragraphing; logical, strong conclusion rising from content.

14 to 17 points

Adequate introduction; adequate transitions; reader can follow what is being said, but the overall organization is choppy; adequate paragraphs; conclusion is somewhat repetitious of the introduction.

1 to 13 points

Weak introduction; little or no transitions; organization is disjointed and haphazard; paragraphs are weak; lacks conclusion.

0 points

Not present

Grammar and Mechanics

18 to 20 points

Sentence coherent, unified, varied; sentence structure complete; correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization; varied word choices.

14 to 17 points

Relatively few errors in sentence fluency; multiple fragments/run-ons, poor spelling, punctuation, and capitalization; uses, slang, and contractions.

1 to 13 points

Serious and persistent errors in: sentence fluency, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, usage, and word choice.

0 points

Not present

Format

18 to 20 points

Appearance is readable and neat; correct use of Turabian, margins, font size/style, pagination, title page; reference page correctly formatted, double-spaced, alphabetized; sources correctly cited.

14 to 17 points

Readability and neatness of assignment are compromised by the number of errors; Turabian format is inconsistent and inadequate; reference page is inconsistent and not alphabetized; most sources correctly cited.

1 to 13 points

Assignment is not readable and is disorderly; Turabian format is not used; no reference page and/or numerous format errors; sources not cited or incorrectly cited.

0 points

Not present