Here are the grading rubrics that I’ll use for arriving at your individual grades.
Discussion Board Grading Rubric
| 100 – Excellent – (A) | 80 – Good – (B) | 70 – Fair (C) | 50 – Unacceptable – (F) | |
| Responsiveness to discussion topics and demonstration of knowledge and understanding from assigned readings. | (50) Readings were understood and incorporated into discussion as it relates to topic. | (40) Readings were understood and incorporated into discussion as it relates to topic | (35) Little use made of readings | (25) Little or no use made of readings. Postings have questionable relationships to discussion questions and/or |
| Ability of postings to move discussion forward by incorporate critical and independent thinking about the discussed material | (50) Comments clearly enrich the discussion by incorporating elements from outside the readings, showing evidence of student critical and creative engagement with the discussed topics | (40) Comments enrich the discussion by incorporating amplifications of ideas from the readings, but contain some obvious hints of critical and creative student engagement with the topics, outside of the assigned reading(s) | (35) Comments do not offer clear evidence of ideas brought from outside the assigned reading(s) | (25) Comments clearly do not contain ideas and thinking beyond what is suggested by the assigned reading(s) |
