4 3 2 1 Total Thesis/Problem/ Student(s) posed a Student(s) posed a Student(s) constructed a Student(s) relied on Question thoughtful, creative question focused question question that lends itself teacher-generated that engaged them in involving them in to readily available questions or developed a challenging or provocative challenging research. answers question requiring little research. The question creative thought. breaks new ground or contributes to knowledge in a focused, specific area. Content Student presents major Student presents major Student presents Student oversimplifies points accurately and fully points accurately and points accurately, but topic, information is not supports them with partially supports them fails to support them with accurate or fails to present convincing arguments, with convincing convincing arguments, major points. ideas and data. arguments, ideas and ideas and data. X2 data. Organization Student presents Student presents Audience has difficulty Audience cannot information in logical, information in logical following presentation understand presentation interesting sequence which sequence which because student jumps because there is no audience can follow. audience can follow. around. sequence of information. Text All slides present one idea Most slides present Most slides present one Most slides present and a few supporting facts. one idea and a few idea but too many words. multiple ideas and too supporting facts. many words. Images and All slides contain one Most slides include Most images are low Images are distracting Layout powerful, high-quality image one powerful, quality. Images are too decorations that create a per slide which helps image, which large/small in size, or of busy feeling and detract audience understand the helps audience poor quality (fuzzy). from the content. Layout is content. Layout is visually understand the Layout shows some cluttered and confusing. pleasing. content. Layout uses structure. most space appropriately. Mechanics No spelling errors. Few spelling errors. Some spelling errors. Many spelling errors No grammar errors. Few grammar errors. Some grammar errors. and/or text is copied. Text is in authors' own Text is in authors' own Text is in authors' own words. Citations Bibliography/works cited list Bibliography/works Bibliography/works cited Student does not list is properly formatted and cited list is complete, list is incomplete (e.g. no sources used for complete (like a research but not properly citations for images) or research. paper). formatted (e.g. bulleted improperly formatted (e.g. list). list of URLs).
4 3 2 1 Total Thesis/Problem/ Question Student(s) posed a thoughtful, creative question that engaged them in challenging or provocative research. The question breaks new ground or contributes to knowledge in a focused, specific area. Student(s) posed a focused question involving them in challenging research. Student(s) constructed a question that lends itself to readily available answers Student(s) relied on teacher-generated questions or developed a question requiring little creative thought. Content Student presents major points accurately and fully supports them with convincing arguments, ideas and data. Student presents major points accurately and partially supports them with convincing arguments, ideas and data. Student presents points accurately, but fails to support them with convincing arguments, ideas and data. Student oversimplifies topic, information is not accurate or fails to present major points. X2 Organization Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow. Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow. Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around. Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. Text All slides present one idea and a few supporting facts. Most slides present one idea and a few supporting facts. Most slides present one idea but too many words. Most slides present multiple ideas and too many words. Images and Layout All slides contain one powerful, high-quality image per slide which helps audience understand the content. Layout is visually pleasing. Most slides include one powerful, image, which helps audience understand the content. Layout uses most space appropriately. Most images are low quality. Images are too large/small in size, or of poor quality (fuzzy). Layout shows some structure. Images are distracting decorations that create a busy feeling and detract from the content. Layout is cluttered and confusing. Mechanics No spelling errors. No grammar errors. Text is in authors' own Few spelling errors. Few grammar errors. Text is in authors' own Some spelling errors. Some grammar errors. Text is in authors' own words. Many spelling errors and/or text is copied. Citations Bibliography/works cited list is properly formatted and complete (like a research paper). Bibliography/works cited list is complete, but not properly formatted (e.g. bulleted list). Bibliography/works cited list is incomplete (e.g. no citations for images) or improperly formatted (e.g. list of URLs). Student does not list sources used for research.
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