MARKING RUBRIC IFS 131 GROUP ASSIGNMENT TASK 1 2016

GROUP ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC

MARK SUMMARY (COMPLETED BY TUTOR)

COMMENTS

A: Originaliity report

10

B: Content of report

50

C: Presentation of submission

25

TOTAL

85

Lecturer:_____________________________________________
Tutor: ______________________________________________

STUDENT INFORMATION (COMPLETED BY STUDENT)

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Surname, Name

Student Number

Lecturers Name

Tutors Name

Signature

% contribution

1
2
3
4
5

A: Originality report
Component/criteria
Similarity Index (Plagialism
percentage)

10
Similarity index equal
to or less than 5%

8
Similarity index is between
6% - 10%

5
Similarity index is
10% and above

0
No originality
report

Student
Mark

Total for the

component

10

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B: Content of the report
Criteria /
Component
Introduction

Structure

Language
and writing
presentation

Applied
contribution

Conceptual
clarity

Excellent

Good

Fairly Good

Average

Poor

Introduction is
exceptionally well
written and
expectations of what
will follow in the report
is clear
Information is
exceptionally well
organized and is easy
to follow;
purpose is clearly
stated and explains the
structure of work

Introduction is well
written; some aspects
could have been
better written

Introduction is
adequate but
more is required

Introduction is
present and refer
a little bit to what
is to come in the
report

Introduction does
not relate to report
and makes little
sense

No
introduction
present

Information is well
organized; links could
occasionally be
clearer but
communication not
impaired.

Little or no
attempt at
connectivity,
though reader can
deduce some
organization.

Individual ideas
may be clear, but
very difficult to
deduce
connection
between them.

Lack of
organization
so severe that
communicatio
n is seriously
impaired.

Engages the reader

objectively and
persuasively, uses
report format,
paragraphs and stays
on theme
Demonstrates
exceptional ability to
apply comments to
integrated course
concepts

Demonstrates and
understands the
elements of a report,
uses paragraphs and
uses persuasive
techniques
Competent in using
and adapting
understanding to
varied applications

Some lack of
organization;
work is hard to
follow and there
is little
continuity; rereading required
for clarification
of ideas.
Uses report
format and
demonstrates an
awareness of
audience

Stays on task with

report format

Does not stay on

task with report
format

Very poor and

low level
language and
presentation

Frequent use of
assertion rather
than relevant
arguments

Cites facts and

opinions without
being able to
support or explain

Cites opinions
with no form of
support

Concepts presentations
show a very high level
of clarity

Many of the concepts

presented have a
high level of clarity

Perceives things
through their own
ideas and feelings
and ignores or is
threatened by
different attitudes
or views
Somehow, there
is some clarity in
the concepts
presented

There are
concepts
presented with no
clear discussion

Difficult to get
concepts from
the work

Some concepts
have some level
of clarity

Fair

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Mark
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Criteria /
Component

Excellent
5

Good

Fairly Good

Average

Fair

Poor

Extent of
independent
thinking

Strong evidence of
independent thinking
and linking of ideas to
context

Some evidence of
independent thinking
with most of the
concepts linked to
context

some evidence
of independent
thinking without
much
contextualization

Somehow, there
could have been
some evidence of
independent
thinking

No evidence at all
on independent
thinking, although
there are signs of
contextual
argument

No evidence at
all of
independent
thinking

Quality of
Argument

-arguments/analysis
are highly persuasive
and effective
-very strong sense of
purpose

-arguments/analysis
are persuasive and
effective
-strong sense of
purpose

-arguments/
analysis limited in
being persuasive
and effective
-little sense of
purpose

-arguments/
analysis limited in
being persuasive
and effective

No sense of
purpose

the writing is very

fluent, coherent and
unified; very effective
use of transition
words, links or lead-ins
to provide unity and
coherence

the writing is fluent,

coherent, and unified;
effective use of
transition words, links
or lead-ins to provide
unity and coherence

the writing is
limited in being
fluent, coherent
and unified;
limited use of
transition words,
links or lead-ins to
provide unity and
coherence

strong use of facts,

examples and
evidence; often
relates the evidence
back to proving the
points; good sense of
context

the writing is
limited (if at all) in
being fluent,
coherent and
unified; limited (if
any) use of
transition words,
links or lead-ins to
provide unity and
coherence
No use of facts,
examples and
evidence, No
context

Lacks any
sense of order
or coherence

very strong use of facts,

examples and
evidence; consistently
relates the evidence
back to proving the
points; great sense of
historical context

An effective summative
statement

Concludes with a
reinforcement of
position

arguments/analy
sis developing
towards being
persuasive/effec
tive
-some sense of
purpose
the writing is
somewhat
fluent, coherent
and unified;
somewhat
effective use of
transition words,
links or lead-ins
to provide unity
and coherence
some use of
facts, examples
and evidence;
sometimes
relates the
evidence back
to proving the
thesis; some
sense of context
Basic conclusion
with some
support

Flow and
cohesion

Contrasts and
similarities

Conclusion

Total for this section

limited use of
facts, examples
and evidence;
rarely (if at all)
relates the
evidence back to
proving the points;
limited sense of
context
Has a basic, brief
conclusion

Stud
Mark
Mark

Total

Too poor to
get any use of
supporting
evidence
5

Has no
satisfactory
conclusion

No conclusion
at all

50

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C: Presentation of submission (Report Quality)

Component

Excellent

Good

Average

Criteria
Front Cover

5
A visible cover page
including all the
relevant information
and a signed
plagiarism
declaration
It is well organized,
automatically
generated and
reflects all the main
headings in the
document
All instructions
adhered to

3-4
A visible cover page
including some relevant
information and a signed
plagiarism declaration

2
A visible cover page different
from the standard template,
plain with no extra creativity
and some relevant
information has been omitted

1
A cover
page with
no
strucuture

0
no cover page

It is organized,
automatically generated
but headings are not
presented in a
strucutured manner

Manually generated

Manually
generated
with no form
of
formatting

Table of content
not included

Not all instructions

adhered to

More than 2 instructions not

followed

No instructions
followed

In-text referencing

Correctly referenced
using APA, for all
intext refs

All sources match

originality report with
few errors

More than 2 incorrectly

referenced sources

no intext
referencing

Bibliography/referencing
list

All sources
acknowledged in intext referencing are
included in end-text
references

some sources
acknowledged in in-text
referencing are excluded
in end-text references

In-text references exist with

no corresponding end-text
references

More than 3
instructions
not followed
more than 4
incorrectly
referenced
sources
Only endtext
references
are included
in the report

Ideas extracted
from publised
literature are not
acknowledge in
both in and end
text references

Table of contents

Document /paragraphs
formatting, numbering

Fair

Poor

Stud
Mark

Total
5

Total for this section

25

Overall total marks

Percentage (%)

85