Friday, February 5, 2010

Assignment Scoring Rubric

We will be scoring your work according to the following rubric.
Please know that, should your piece require revisions, one of us will meet with you to have a conversation about shared understandings (ours and yours) and to thus make it possible for you to approach the revision with every confidence.

Exceeds Expectations (EE)
These are superior efforts that satisfy all of the criteria for the previous level. In addition, the work presents challenging and significant ideas and/or interpretations that are developed with insight, depth, and originality, and that display sophisticated understandings/analyses.

Fully Meets Expectations (FME)
These are strong efforts that satisfy all of the criteria for the previous level. In addition, the writing goes beyond assignment expectations in terms of sophistication of thought and/or development of more challenging/significant ideas.

Meets Expectations (ME)
These are adequate efforts, demonstrating competent understandings/analyses that go beyond restatements of material that has already been presented. The interpretations reflect the intentions of the assignment, integrate course components, and are focused. The writing is clear and clean.

Needs Revision (NR)
These efforts are problematic. They are insufficiently fitted to expectations, fail to demonstrate adequate understanding, and/or don't offer adequate analysis. The interpretations may (a) repeat without sufficiently elaborating course material, (b) not reflect the intentions of the assignment, (c) show weak or fragmented understandings/analyses, and/or (d) be unfocused/poorly written.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Submitting questions

Hello everyone,

Just a quick note to draw your attention to our two gmail sites, one for submitting assignments and a different one for sending along questions to us. With 300+ assignments, it is easy to miss questions when they are mixed in with the assignments. That's why we (TAs, as in teaching assistants) created ubcpot2010tas@gmail.com for your questions. Your assignments go to ubcpot2010assignments@gmail.com

Please know that we will be checking the email site once a day. You can expect a response from one of us within 24 hours.

Best to everyone,
Lissa & Steven