Climate Change, Communities, and Public Planning A Problem-Based Learning Activity Sample Assessment Rubrics Rubric 1: Team Case Study Presentation Inadequate (1 point) Competent (2 points) Exemplary (3 points) Incomplete description Students identify most, Students describe Description of community; students but not all of the cultural, economic and of have not considered cultural, economic, and natural features of cultural, economic, and natural features of the Community community natural features community Students identify GCC challenges that are Identification Students unable to Students identify GCC specific to the cultural, of GCC identify GCC challenges challenges that are likely economic, and natural Challenges unique to community to impact community features of the community Students identify several Responses identified by Students identify a response options that students are either limited number of Identification address the unique unrelated to challenges response options that of Response challenges faced by the faced by the community have the potential to community; responses Options or are unlikely to have address challenges faced are likely to have a an impact by the community significant impact Team has worked Team work has been together to generate a dominated by one or two Each member has complete case study; members; little evidence contributed to the Collaboration each team member has a that all members research process and clear understanding of contributed to research case study development the challenges and process response options Team clearly explains Team has difficulty Team adequately their findings; the Presentation explaining and/or explains and defends presentation is organized defending their findings findings and complete Rubric 2: Reflection
Climate Change, Communities, and Public Planning A Problem-Based Learning Activity Sample Assessment Rubrics Inadequate (1 point) Competent (2 points) Exemplary (3 points) Description of Community Incomplete description of community; students have not considered cultural, economic, and natural features Students identify most, but not all of the cultural, economic, and natural features of the community Students describe cultural, economic and natural features of community Identification of GCC Challenges Students unable to identify GCC challenges unique to community Students identify GCC challenges that are likely to impact community Students identify GCC challenges that are specific to the cultural, economic, and natural features of the community Identification of Response Options Responses identified by students are either unrelated to challenges faced by the community or are unlikely to have an impact Students identify a limited number of response options that have the potential to address challenges faced by the community Students identify several response options that address the unique challenges faced by the community; responses are likely to have a significant impact Collaboration Team work has been dominated by one or two members; little evidence that all members contributed to research process Each member has contributed to the research process and case study development Team has worked together to generate a complete case study; each team member has a clear understanding of the challenges and response options Presentation Team has difficulty explaining and/or defending their findings Team adequately explains and defends findings Team clearly explains their findings; the presentation is organized and complete Rubric 1: Team Case Study Presentation Rubric 2: Reflection
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