Responding to Important Child Development Issues Please follow Rubric

Responding to Important Child Development Issues Scoring Guide Grading Rubric

Criteria

Non-performance

Basic

Proficient

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Examine how a specific issue impacts cognitive social, emotional, or physical development in early childhood and beyond. 25%

Does not examine how a specific issue impacts cognitive social, emotional, or physical development in early childhood and beyond.

Outlines at a basic level how a specific issue impacts cognitive social, emotional, or physical development in early childhood and beyond.

Examines how a specific issue impacts cognitive social, emotional, or physical development in early childhood and beyond.

Examines how a specific issue impacts cognitive social, emotional, or physical development in early childhood and beyond, and identifies areas of uncertainty, knowledge gaps, or additional information that would be needed to better understand the impact on child development.

Analyze major theories or recent research related to a selected topic and consider the influence of biology and the environment, health, education, and culture on development. 25%

Does not analyze major theories or recent research related to a selected topic and consider the influence of biology and the environment, health, education, and culture on development.

Lists some major theories or recent research related to a selected topic and consider the influence of biology and the environment, health, education, and culture on development.

Analyzes major theories or recent research related to a selected topic and consider the influence of biology and the environment, health, education, and culture on development.

Analyzes major theories or recent research related to a selected topic and consider the influence of biology and the environment, health, education, and culture on development, and acknowledges one's own assumptions and biases.

Apply child development theory and research in recommending appropriate responses or interventions to children's evolving needs in specific contexts, that is, school, home, and community. 25%

Does not apply child development theory and research in recommending appropriate responses or interventions to children's evolving needs in specific contexts, that is, school, home, and community.

Recognizes child development theory and research in recommending appropriate responses or interventions to children's evolving needs in specific contexts, that is, school, home, and community.

Applies child development theory and research in recommending appropriate responses or interventions to children's evolving needs in specific contexts, that is, school, home, and community.

Applies child development theory and research in recommending appropriate responses or interventions to children's evolving needs in specific contexts, that is, school, home, and community, and identifies assumptions on which the recommendation is based as well as the pros and cons.

Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for graduate-level composition and expression. 25%

Does not communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.

Inconsistently communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and congruent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.

Communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.

Consistently communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and congruent with expectations for members of the psychological professions, resulting in a work that is easily readable, grammatically correct, and virtually free of errors.