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QSO 600 Exam Guidelines and Rubric
The midterm exam and the final exam include five essay-type questions each in addition to the problem questions. For the essay questions, students are required to provide written responses using appropriate reference materials. You must provide answers and correctly use these with in-text citations and references/bibliography. Complete the essay element of the examination in Word.
The critical elements of this rubric will be used to grade the essay questions of the midterm and final exams. There are 5 questions worth 20 points each for a total possible score of 100 points. Each question is graded separately with the rubric below. The total points for each question is added together to arrive at the total score.
Requirements of Submission: Responses must follow these formatting guidelines: discipline-appropriate citations.
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Critical Elements |
Exemplary |
Proficient |
Needs Improvement |
Not Evident |
Value |
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Comprehension of the Principles of Operations Management
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Accurately and logically applies the relevant operations management principles regarding process speed, speed, capacity, inventory, and quality in the presence of uncertainty; cites multiple varied examples to illustrate each principle (20) |
Accurately and logically applies the relevant operations management principles regarding process speed, speed, capacity, inventory, and quality in the presence of uncertainty; cites examples to illustrate each principle (18) |
Applies the relevant operations management principles regarding process speed, speed, capacity, inventory, and quality in the presence of uncertainty; however, key principles or examples to illustrate each are missing or inaccurate (14) |
Does not apply operations management principles relevant to the questions (0) |
20 |
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Awareness of Strategic Process Management Issues
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Answers integrate strategic process management issues and explain the significance to other functional areas of the organization using specific relevant examples (20) |
Answers integrate strategic process management issues and explain the significance to other functional areas of the organization (18) |
Answers integrate strategic process management issues but do not clearly describe the significance to other functional areas of the organization (14) |
Does not demonstrate awareness of strategic process management issues and their significance to other functional areas of the organization (0) |
20 |
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Application of Tools and Techniques for Process Management
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Uses appropriate management tools and techniques to evaluate and provide a comprehensive response, addressing process management aspects of the questions (20) |
Uses appropriate management tools and techniques to evaluate and respond to the process management aspects of the questions (18) |
Uses management tools and techniques to evaluate and respond to the process management aspects of the questions; however, some are missing or applied incorrectly (14) |
Does not use appropriate management tools and techniques to evaluate and respond to the process management aspects of the questions (0) |
20 |
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Analytical and Creative Thinking
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Implements an analytical, creative strategy to answer open-ended operations management questions and uses supporting examples to substantiate thinking (20) |
Implements an analytical, creative strategy to answer open-ended operations management questions (18) |
Implements an analytical strategy to answer open-ended operations management questions; however, analysis is incomplete or flawed (14) |
Does not implement an analytical, creative strategy to answer open-ended operations management questions (0) |
20 |
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Articulation of Response |
Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy to read format (20) |
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization (18) |
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas (14) |
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas (0) |
20 |
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Earned Total Comments: |
100% |
