This rubric outlines the criteria and scoring for a critical thinking essay. It evaluates essays across 7 categories from 1-6 points: topic development, evidence, organization, language, sentence structure, and mechanics. For each category, it provides descriptors to define expectations for effective (5 points), competent (4 points), inadequate (3 points), limited (2 points), and lacking (1 point) essays.
This rubric outlines the criteria and scoring for a critical thinking essay. It evaluates essays across 7 categories from 1-6 points: topic development, evidence, organization, language, sentence structure, and mechanics. For each category, it provides descriptors to define expectations for effective (5 points), competent (4 points), inadequate (3 points), limited (2 points), and lacking (1 point) essays.
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This rubric outlines the criteria and scoring for a critical thinking essay. It evaluates essays across 7 categories from 1-6 points: topic development, evidence, organization, language, sentence structure, and mechanics. For each category, it provides descriptors to define expectations for effective (5 points), competent (4 points), inadequate (3 points), limited (2 points), and lacking (1 point) essays.
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Topic and Effectively and Effectively and Develops a point Develops a point of Develops a point of Develops no Idea insightfully develops a insightfully of view on the view on the issue, view on the issue that viable point of Development point of view on the develops a point of issue and demonstrating some is vague or seriously view on the issue and demonstrates view on the issue demonstrates critical thinking, but limited, issue outstanding critical and demonstrates competent critical may do so demonstrating weak thinking strong critical thinking inconsistently critical thinking thinking Uses clearly Generally uses Uses adequate May use inadequate Provides Provides little Evidence appropriate examples, appropriate examples, reasons examples, reasons, or inappropriate or or no evidence and detail reasons and other examples, reasons and other evidence other evidence to insufficient examples, to support its evidence to support its and other evidence to support its support its position reasons, or other position position to support its position evidence to support position its position Organizatio Well organized and Well organized and Is generally Is limited in Poorly organized Is disorganized n clearly focused, focused, organized and organization or focus; and/or focused, or has or unfocused, demonstrating clear demonstrating focused, may demonstrate serious problems with resulting in a coherence and smooth coherence and demonstrating some lapses in coherence or disjointed or progression of ideas progression of ideas some coherence coherence or progression of ideas incoherent and progression of progression of ideas essay ideas Language Exhibits skillful use of Exhibits facility in Exhibits adequate Displays developing Displays little facility Displays language, using a the use of language, but inconsistent facility in the use of in the use of fundamental varied, accurate, and using appropriate facility in the language, but language, using very errors in apt vocabulary vocabulary using of language, sometimes uses weak limited vocabulary or vocabulary using generally or inappropriate word incorrect word choice appropriate choice vocabulary Sentence Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Lacks variety or Demonstrates Demonstrates Structure meaningful variety in variety in sentence some variety in demonstrates frequent problems in severe flaws in sentence structure structure sentence structure problems in sentence sentence structure sentence structure structure Mechanics Is free of most errors Is generally free of Has some errors in Frequent errors in Errors in grammar, Pervasive errors in grammar, usage and most errors in grammar, usage, grammar, usage usage, and mechanics in grammar, mechanics grammar, usage and and mechanics seriously interfere usage, or mechanics with meaning mechanics