physical education and fitness and sportsation and fitness and sports

Paper: PEP 185

Grading Rubric

I will use the following rubric as a guide for grading your papers.

Final Paper Rubric (100 possible points)

Content Analysis (75 possible points)

0=(0 points) Paper was incomplete. Content was not connected to the issues discussed in class, and was not developed. References and examples were not used to support claims. Ideas were not discussed in a critical, thoughtful, and reflective manner. Paper was laced with stereotypes.

1=(20 points) Paper was not written on assigned topic. Content was not connected to issues discussed in class and lacked development. Few references and examples were used to support claims. Paper was mostly uninformed opinions and often stereotypical. Ideas were not developed in a critical, thoughtful, and reflective manner.

2=(40 points) Paper was partially written on assigned topic. Content was connected to issues in class but lacked development. Few references and examples were provided to support claims. Ideas were weakly presented in a critical, thoughtful, and reflective manner.

3=(60 points) Paper was written on assigned topic. Content partially developed, and connected to issues discussed in class. References and examples were used to support claims. Many of the ideas were not thoroughly presented in a critical, thoughtful, and reflective manner.

4=(75 points) Paper was written on assigned topic. Content was connected to issues discussed in class, and was well developed. References and examples were used to support claims. Ideas were presented in a critical, thoughtful, and reflective manner.

Organization (15 possible points)

0= (0 points) Paper lacked any logical organizational structure.

1= (5 points) Paper had little logic in organization resulting in ideas being difficult to follow.

2= (10 points) Paper was fairly well organized but lacked transitions and connections between ideas.

3= (15 points) Paper was logically organized and developed. Transitions and connections between ideas were used.

Grammar/Spelling (5 possible points)

0=(0 points) Paper had many spelling and grammar mistakes. Ideas were not communicated because grammar was poor.

1=(1 points) Paper had a few spelling but many grammatical mistakes. Due to grammatical mistakes, ideas were difficult to understand.

2=(3 points) Paper had few spelling or grammar mistakes.

3=(5 points) Paper was free of spelling and grammatical mistakes.

APA Format 5 possible points)

0= (0 points) Paper and reference sheet were not in APA format.

1= (2 points) APA style was used in only part of the paper and reference sheet.

2= (3 points) Paper or reference sheet was in APA format, but not both.

3= (5 points) APA formatting was correctly used in both the paper and the reference sheet.