Ashley Claire Pub Health Finance 5

Criteria

Exemplary - 100%

Satisfactory - 80-99%

Partially Met - 40-79%

Attempted - 1-39%

Not Evident - 0%

Terminology / Concepts

20%

See “Satisfactory,” with the exception that there are no errors.

Report uses terminology consistently and accurately, and consistent with the sources from which the data is being pulled. There may be one or two minor misapplications of terminology or concepts.

There are several errors in terminology or application of concepts, but the intention is mostly clear.

Regular, recurring errors in terminology and/or concepts make it difficult to understand parts of the report.  

Report doesn’t use terminology or apply concepts learned in the course.

Creditworthiness Explanation

20%

Student provides thorough, supported, convincing argument for the application of creditworthiness as a metric for understanding an organization’s financial health. There are no errors in the student’s application of concepts.

Explanation of creditworthiness as financial status metric comprehensive and supported by sources.

Explanation of creditworthiness as a metric for understanding the financial health of an organization missing detail or supporting sources.

Little effort exhibited to explain the function of creditworthiness as a metric, or how it works. Largely unsupported by sources.

No attempt to explain creditworthiness.

Creditworthiness Evaluation

20%

See “Satisfactory,” but in detail, calculations, and use of sources and concepts for support the student exceeds expectations and makes no errors.

Report uses details from the financial documents from both organizations, as well as methodology from sources, to calculate a logical creditworthiness rating for both organizations.

Report uses sources and details from financial documents to calculate creditworthiness, but makes errors in application of some concepts or in some calculations.

Report makes several large errors in application of concepts and/or calculations.

No attempt to evaluate creditworthiness.

Organization

20%

The report is comprehensive and clear. Nothing is misplaced.

The report is organized so that essential elements can be easily referenced. One element may be out of place or left out.

Some elements are organized in a way that makes it difficult to find them, or they would make more sense organized differently.

The report is jumbled and lacks the organization necessary to make it useable.

The report has no organization whatsoever.

Mechanics / Grammar

10%

There are no errors in grammar or mechanics.

There are a few errors in grammar and/or mechanics, but they are minor.

There are enough errors in grammar and/or mechanics to distract, sometimes, from the document’s intention.

There are regular, serious errors in grammar and/or mechanics.

The grammar and/or mechanics contain enough errors to regularly confuse the document’s meaning.

AMA Formatting

10%

The paper is formatted correctly, all sources cited correctly, with no errors.

Paper is formatted correctly and all sources used are cited correctly with one or two minor errors.

Several errors in citation or AMA style formatting.

Recurring errors in the AMA formatting suggest a lack of fluency with AMA style.

No sources cited, or document not formatted using AMA style.