EDU 352: Foundations of Educational Technology Week 2 assignment

Total Possible Score: 10.00

Timeline: Creates a Timeline That Contains Eight Images Representing Historic Educational Technology Events

Total: 4.00

Distinguished - Creates an accurate timeline that contains at least eight images representing historic events in educational technology.

Proficient - Creates a timeline that contains eight images that represent historic events in educational technology. The timeline is slightly inaccurate.

Basic - Creates a timeline that contains at least six images that somewhat represent historic events in educational technology. The timeline is inaccurate.

Below Expectations - Creates a timeline that contains at least five images. The images do not represent events in historic educational technology or the timeline is entirely inaccurate.

Non-Performance - The timeline that represents historic events in educational technology is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Paper: Describes Each Historical Event, its relevance to Educational Technology and Explains Why it Was Selected

Total: 2.00

Distinguished - Thoroughly describes each historical event, its relevance to educational technology and convincingly explains why the event was selected.

Proficient - Describes each historical event, its relevance to educational technology and explains why event was selected. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Partially describes each historical event, its relevance to educational technology and minimally explain why each event was selected. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe each historical event; however; its relevance to educational technology or the explanation of why each event was selected is missing.

Non-Performance - The description of each historical event, its relevance to educational technology and explains why event was selected are either nonexistent or lack the components described in the assignment instructions.

Paper: Explains How Each Educational Technology Event/Technology Impacted Learning and Classifies Whether Each Event or Technology is Emerging, Mature or on the Wane

Total: 2.00

Distinguished - Thoroughly explains how each educational technology event/technology impacted learning. Accurately classifies each event or technology as emerging, mature or on the wane.

Proficient - Explains how each educational technology event/technology impacted learning. Classifies each event or technology as emerging, mature or on the wane. The explanation is slightly underdeveloped or the classification may be slightly inaccurate.

Basic - Minimally explains how each educational technology event/technology impacted learning. Classifies each event or technology as emerging, mature or on the wane. The explanation is underdeveloped and/or the classification is inaccurate.

Below Expectations - Attempts to explain how each educational technology event/technology impacted learning and classify each event or technology as emerging, mature or on the wane; however, the explanation is significantly underdeveloped and the classification is completely inaccurate.

Non-Performance - The explanation of how each educational technology event/technology impacted learning is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Integrative Learning: Connections to Experience

Total: 0.50

Distinguished - Creates meaningful correlations among experiences outside of the classroom to demonstrate an understanding of the given field of study and to broaden one's own viewpoints.

Proficient - Compares life experiences and academic knowledge to distinguish differences and similarities while acknowledging perspectives other than one's own.

Basic - Recognizes correlations between life experiences, academic texts, and ideas perceived as similar and related to one's own interests.

Below Expectations - Briefly comments about the connections between one's life experiences and academic texts.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Integrative Learning: Integrated Communication

Total: 0.50

Distinguished - Utilizes a format, language, or graph (or other visual representation) in ways that enhance comprehension, while making clear the interdependence of language and meaning, thought, and expression.

Proficient - Utilizes a format, language, or graph (or other visual representation) to correlate content and form, demonstrating an awareness of purpose and audience.

Basic - Utilizes a format, language, or graph (or other visual representation) that correlates what is being communicated.

Below Expectations - Utilizes a format, language, or graph (or other visual representation) that is appropriate, but may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Written Communication: Control of Syntax and Mechanics

Total: 0.25

Distinguished - Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand.

Proficient - Displays comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains only a few minor errors and is mostly easy to understand.

Basic - Displays basic comprehension of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains a few errors which may slightly distract the reader.

Below Expectations - Fails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which distract the reader.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Written Communication: APA Formatting

Total: 0.25

Distinguished - Accurately uses APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title page, and reference page.

Proficient - Exhibits APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout contains a few minor errors. 

Basic - Exhibits limited knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout does not meet all APA requirements. 

Below Expectations - Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA formatting. There are frequent errors, making the layout difficult to distinguish as APA.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Written Communication: Page Requirement

Total: 0.25

Distinguished - The length of the paper is equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Proficient - The length of the paper is nearly equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Basic - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least three quarters of the required number of correctly formatted pages.

Below Expectations - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least one half of the required number of correctly formatted pages.   

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Written Communication: Resource Requirement

Total: 0.25

Distinguished - Uses more than the required number of scholarly sources, providing compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Proficient - Uses the required number of scholarly sources to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Basic - Uses less than the required number of sources to support ideas. Some sources may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are used within the body of the assignment. Citations may not be formatted correctly.

Below Expectations - Uses an inadequate number of sources that provide little or no support for ideas. Sources used may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are not used within the body of the assignment. Citations are not formatted correctly.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.