Rubrics A: Community English 2,3; Fluency English 4,5 and Advanced English 6
Criteria/Points 2 1.5
Content Reflection - Reflection demonstrates a
high degree of critical thinking
in applying, analyzing, and
evaluating key course concepts
and theories from readings,
lectures, and discussions
activities.
- Insightful and relevant
connections made through
contextual explanations,
inferences, and examples
Personal Growth - Conveys strong evidence of
reflection on own work with a
personal response to the
self-assessment questions
posed.
Demonstrates significant
personal growth and awareness
of deeper meaning through
inferences made, examples,
well developed insights, and
substantial depth in
perceptions and challenges.
- Synthesizes current
experience into future
implications.
- Reflection demonstrates
some degree of critical thinking
in applying, analyzing, and/or
evaluating key course concepts
and theories from readings,
lectures, and discussions
activities.
- Connections made through
explanations, inferences,
and/or examples.
- Conveys evidence of reflection
on own work with a personal
response to the self-
assessment questions posed.
- Demonstrates satisfactory
personal growth and awareness
through some inferences
made, examples, insights, and
challenges.
- Some thought of the future
implications of current
experience.
1 0.5
Reflection demonstrates limited
critical thinking in applying,
analyzing, and/or evaluating key
course concepts and theories
from readings, lectures,
discussions, activities.
- Minimal connections made
through explanations,
inferences, and/or examples.
- Conveys limited evidence of
reflection on own work in
response to the self-assessment
questions posed.
- Demonstrates less than
adequate personal growth and
awareness through few or
simplistic inferences made,
examples, insights, and/or
challenges that are not well
developed.
- Minimal thought of the future
implications of current
experience.
Reflection lacks critical
thinking. Superficial
connections are made with
key course concepts and
course materials, activities.
- Conveys inadequate evidence
of reflection on own work in
response to the self-
assessment questions posed.
- Personal growth and
awareness are not evident
and/or demonstrates a
neutral experience with
negligible personal impact.
Lacks enough inferences,
examples, personal insights
and challenges
- Future implications are
overlooked.
Criteria/Points 2 1.5 1 0.5
Writing Coherence - Uses cohesion in such a - Uses a range of cohesive - Makes inadequate, inaccurate or - May use a very limited
quality: cohesion way that it attracts no devices appropriately over use of cohesive devices range of cohesive devices,
attention although there may be some and those used may not
- Skillfully/ under-/over-use - May not write in paragraphs, or indicate a logical relationship
Sufficiently and paragraphing may be between ideas
appropriately manages - Presents a clear central inadequate
paragraphing topic within each paragraph
Lexical - Uses a wide range of - Uses a sufficient range - Uses a limited range of - Uses only a very limited
resources vocabulary of vocabulary to allow vocabulary, but this is minimally range of words and
some flexibility and adequate for the task expressions with very limited
- Fluently and flexibly to precision control of word formation
convey precise meanings - May make noticeable errors in and/or spelling
skillfully spelling and/or word formation that
- May produce occasional may cause some difficulty for the
- Produces rare errors in errors in word choice, reader - Errors may severely distort
spelling and/or word spelling and/or word the message
formation formation
Grammatical - Uses a wide range of - Uses a mix of simple and - Uses only a limited range of - Attempts sentence forms but
range and structures. The majority complex sentence forms structures. Attempts complex errors in grammar and
accuracy
of sentences are error- sentences but these tend to be less punctuation predominate and
free - Makes some errors in accurate than simple sentences distort the meaning
grammar and punctuation - May make frequent grammatical
- Makes only very but they rarely reduce errors and punctuation may be
occasional errors or communication faulty; errors can cause some
improprieties difficulty for the reader