9th Grade Finding Information Lesson

Fall 2015
Michelle Colquitt, Media Specialist

Finding Information Rubric

Element
The Basics

Content

Creativity

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Target

1
Student does not

2
Student is

3
Student is a leader

interact with their

cooperative with

within the group.

group about the

their group

Student

project. No

members and works communicates

communication or

well as part of the

effectively within the

cooperation. Explicit

group. Moderate

group confines.

plagiarism. No Effort effort within the

Outstanding effort

in the Group. No

group. Moderate

within the group.

cooperation with the

Cooperation within

Higher level

group.
Project content is

group.
Project is

cooperation.
Project is

poorly

adequately

outstanding. Work

conceptualized.

conceptualized.

product is excellent.

Work product is

Work product is

Work is well thought

poor at best. Work

adequately finished.

out and executed.

product is late and/

Minor missing

Work has minimal (if

or missing key

elements or

no) grammatical

elements.

style/grammar

errors. Best quality

Work is not creative

issues.
Work is moderately

work.
Work is highly

at all. Mediocre

creative. Work is

creative. Work is

work product at

completed utilizing

easily read/viewed

best. Work is not

a Web 2.0 tool.

online. Work is

executed using a

completed utilizing

Web 2.0 tool.

an appropriate Web
2.0 tool and is
properly hosted and
shared with the

9th Grade Finding Information Lesson

Fall 2015
Michelle Colquitt, Media Specialist

class.

Use of Sources

Overall Quality

Grading Scale:
15 pts Target 95
13-14 Acceptable 90
10-12 Acceptable 85
>9 Unacceptable 75

None of the

Work references

Work fully

required sources

only 1 source

references all

are referenced.

possibly in a

required sources.

Students failed to

manner unrelated to

Work possibly

properly

the work output.

builds upon sources

answer/reference

Work is not as fully

and incorporates

required lesson

sourced as it could

new sources into

sources.
Work is poorly

be.
Work is adequate.

the output.
Work is outstanding.

executed at best.

Work has few

Work is error free.

Work is

errors, references at Work cites

unorganized, has

least 1 source, is

information from

glaring grammatical

free from

each source and

errors, or is possibly

plagiarism, and has

possibly sites

plagiarized. Work

few grammatical

further sources.

not completed using

errors. Work

Work completed

Web 2.0 tool. Work

completed with Web with Web 2.0 tool

does not reference

2.0 tool, but

and properly

required sources.

possibly not

shared. Highest

properly shared.

quality work.

9th Grade Finding Information Lesson

Fall 2015
Michelle Colquitt, Media Specialist

Adapted From: http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html