Criteria for Marks

Quality of Work:

(A)-Demonstrates an exemplary level of understanding of content standards and tasks.

(B)-Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the content standards and tasks.

(C)-Demonstrates an understanding of the content standards and tasks.

(D)-Demonstrates a limited understanding of the content standards and tasks.

(Fail)- Demonstrates an inability to understand the content standards and tasks.

 

Interpretation and Application:

(A)-Demonstrates exceptional and fluent skills in analyzing, synthesizing, and drawing inferences from observations and other data or information.

(B)-Demonstrates fluent skills in analyzing, synthesizing, and drawing inferences from observations and other data or information.

(C)-Demonstrates satisfactory skills in analyzing, synthesizing and drawing inferences from observations and data or information.

(D)-Demonstrates a limited ability to analyze synthesize, and draw inferences from observations and other data or information.

(Fail)-Demonstrates an incomplete and/or inaccurate analysis of data or information that has been collected.

 

Thinking and Reasoning Skills:

(A)-Demonstrates an insightful and thorough use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances in a variety of contexts.

(B)-Demonstrates an insightful use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances in a variety of contexts.

(C)-Demonstrates use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products of performances in a variety of contexts.

(D)-Demonstrates a limited use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances.

(Fail)-Demonstrates incomplete use of prior knowledge/skills to create innovative ideas products or performances.

 

Quality of Work:

(A)-Produces extra work in addition to assigned work, of both teacher-generated and self-initiated toward achieving standards for the course.

(B)-Produces extra work in addition to all assigned work, usually teacher-generated and self-initiated toward achieving standards for the course.

(C)-Produces the assigned work in achieving standards for the course.

(D)-Demonstrates a need to improve in the amount of work completed and effort expended toward achieving standards for the course.

(Fail)-Demonstrates no improvements of the work completed and in the effort expended toward achieving standards for the course.

 

Work Habits:

Effort:

(E)-Demonstrates exceptional determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.

(S)-Demonstrates determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.

(U)-Demonstrates little determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.

 

Responsibility:

(E)-Accepts complete responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates honesty, fairness, and integrity.

(S)-Accepts responsibility for personal actions and frequently demonstrates honesty, fairness, and integrity.

(U)-Demonstrates little determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.

 

Attendance:

(E)-Maintains excellent attendance record by consistently avoiding unnecessary absences or tardies.

(S)-Maintains a satisfactory attendance record by avoiding unnecessary absences or tardies.

(U)-Makes little effort to maintain a satisfactory attendance record; is frequently absent or tardy without excused.

 

Evaluation:

(E)-Makes explicit effort to examine work using both teacher-generated and self-generated criteria.

(S)-Makes effort to examine work using teacher-generated criteria.

(U)-Makes use only of teacher-generated criteria to examine work on an inconsistent basis.