Case Analysis

Evaluation Criteria

Below Average Performance

(69% or lower)

Max. Pts.

Average Performance

(70% to 89%)

Max. Pts.

Exemplary Performance

(90% or higher)

Max. Pts.

Your Score

Issue(s)

· Does not recognize an ethical issue or mentions issues that are not based on facts of the case

· Doesn’t correctly identify issue category or underlying concept

4.1

· Recognizes one or more key ethical issues in the case; Provides some support for why problem is an ethical issue; Identifies only some categories or ethical concepts

5.3

· Recognizes multiple ethical issues in the case

· States most important issues and why

· Identifies category of issue(s) or underlying ethical concepts

6

Facts

· Simply repeats facts listed in case and does not discuss the relevance of these facts

· Doesn’t mention if professional code and/or law(s) is described in case

2.7

· Identifies some of the important facts in case

· Distinguishes between more important and less important facts

3.5

· Identifies most important facts in case, distinguishing between more and less important facts

· Describes professional code and laws/regulations if included

4

Stakeholders/ Harms/ Benefits/ Rights

· Little identification of stakeholders

· No discussion of harms and benefits

· No discussion of rights denied and/or exercised OR

· Misidentifies harms, benefits, rights; may describe future instead of “already happened”

8.3

· Identifies some of important stakeholders; some mention of those not affected

· Discusses only some of harms and benefits, or lacks detail

· Discusses only some of rights denied and rights exercised, or lacks detail

10.7

· Identifies important stakeholders as well as those not affected

· Thoroughly discusses those harmed, and/or benefitted, and how

· Thoroughly discusses rights denied and rights exercised, and how

· Describes only those harms/benefits/ rights that have already happened

12

Actions

· Doesn’t state whether immediate action is needed

· No alternative action proposed or proposes infeasible action(s)

· No mention of who must act

4.1

· States whether immediate action is needed

· More than one reasonable alternative action proposed

· Names who must act, if anyone

5.3

· States whether immediate action is needed

· Proposed alternative actions seem to deal with the most important issue(s)

· Names who must act and states why

6

Alternatives

· Does not identify or misidentifies alternatives, outcomes, and possible effects on all stakeholders

· Little or no discussion of alternatives and relevant ethical model

8.3

· Evaluates some alternatives, their outcomes, and possible effects on some parties; or doesn’t thoroughly evaluate each part of the alternative

· Some discussion of alternatives and relevant ethical model

10.7

· Thoroughly evaluates all alternatives and their outcomes and possible effects on each individual stakeholder or groups of stakeholders

· Explains how alternatives satisfy ethical model considered most relevant

12

Recommen-dation

· No recommendation offered; OR opinion offered without support tied to issues, facts concepts, ethical model, or harms/benefits/ rights

· No mention of professional codes or codes are misidentified

6.9

· Recommendation offered but is not clearly tied to issue, facts, concepts, ethical model/theory, harms/ benefits/ rights

· Professional code(s) correctly identified but little discussion of applicability

8.9

· Recommendation is tied to issue(s) deemed most important;

· Recommendation is supported by key concepts; ethical model/theory; and most important facts and analysis of harms/rights/benefits

· Correctly identifies and applies professional code(s) of ethics

10

Total score

Submitted to Safe Assign by due time:

Total Maximum Points:

50