teaching with writing

social sciences grading

Typical grading criteria across all disciplines include assignment address; development of ideas; consistency of focus; purpose and audience address; choice and use of evidence; logical organization (and/or attention to prescribed formats); accuracy of citations; coherence; and attention to standard mechanics/grammar. In addition, grading rubrics accompanying social sciences assignments often specify the quality of summaries, discrepancy of studies, accuracy of data, and clarity of logic and insight.

sample grading rubrics

• Economics, Grading Criteria: a guide for evaluating a research paper. This rubric is a part of the course syllabus.
  
  
• Geography, Grading Grid: a rubric that lists criteria for a Research Project and assigns possible grading levels to attributes such as development of thesis, clarity of ideas, and mechanical correctness.
  
  
• Geography, Two Self-Evaluations: a pair of rubrics that provide students with an opportunity to articulate what they learned and assess their own performance on a Research Project.
  
  
• Linguistics, Grading Rubrics: a series of grading rubrics for an upper-division writing-intensive course.
  • Bibliographic Progress
    
  • Evaluation of Proposals: Analysis of a Text
    
  • Grid for Draft: Text Analysis Paper
    
  • Keeping Track of Informal Writing
    
  • Informal Writing
    
  • Criterion-Based Rubric: Generic
    
  • Criterion-Based Rubric: Assignment-Specific
    
    
• Philosophy, Remarks on Short Papers: an explanation of guidelines such as reasonableness, grammatical and organizational clarity, and independent thought, for grading short papers in a course on Plato.
  

more grading support

• Grammar in Economics: a short article about evaluating students' writing in economics. This article is a part of the Center for Writing's Fall 2001 Write @ U newsletter.

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