DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION (DBQ): Generic Scoring Rubric



Document Based Question (DBQ) Rubric

| |Score of 100-90(5/4) |Score of 89-80 (4/3) |Score of 79-70 (3/2) |Score of 69-60 (2/1) |

|Thesis |well developed |good thesis; developed |thesis is limited |no thesis |

| |provides a clear road map |provides a road map with a few main|confused; does not provide a |thesis does not address the |

| |analytical |points |clear road map |question |

|/10 |accurate |satisfactorily addresses question |inadequately addresses question | |

| |clearly addresses question |beyond simple restatement of |simple restatement of question | |

| |comprehensive |question | | |

|Addresses |all aspects of question are |all aspects of question are |most aspects of essay question |essay attempts or fails to |

|task |addressed—thoroughly and evenly |addressed, though not evenly or |are addressed |address the task |

| | |thoroughly | | |

|/10 | | | | |

|Analysis |strongly supports thesis |satisfactorily supports thesis |limited support of thesis |inadequate support of thesis |

| |throughout |adequate |over generalized; lacks analysis |incorrect or inaccurate |

| |evaluates in depth |more descriptive than analytical |simplistic |no analysis is present |

|/10 |sophisticated |(but attempts to include some |includes some facts and details |includes no use of accurate or |

| |Richly supported with relevant |analysis) | |relevant facts and details |

| |facts, examples and details |good/complete | | |

| |uses comparisons, connections |includes relevant, facts, examples | | |

| |where appropriate |and details | | |

|Use of Documents |strongly supports thesis with |satisfactorily supports thesis with|limited support of thesis |inadequate support of thesis |

| |appropriate evidence from |appropriate evidence from documents|unclear references/citations of |No documents cited |

| |documents |Most of the information from |documents |has little or no understanding |

|/10 |All the information from |documents is cited correctly |Students uses quotes from |of documents |

| |documents is cited correctly |uses info from documents as |documents instead of paraphrasing|ineffectual use of documents or |

| |uses info from documents |evidence, but student only |general or simplistic use of |no documents used |

| |persuasively as evidence; |understands basic meaning of |documents because students has | |

| |student understands the meaning |documents |limited understanding of | |

| |of documents |satisfactory analysis |documents’ meaning | |

| |careful, insightful analysis and|uses some documents (at least 3 |limited use of documents (uses 2 | |

| |synthesis |used) |documents) | |

| |uses at least 4 documents | | | |

|Accuracy |may include few minor historical|may include minor errors that |major errors and/or omissions |substantial factual errors |

| |errors that do not detract from |somewhat detract from quality of | |and/or omissions |

| |quality of essay |essay | | |

|/10 | | | | |

|Outside |strongly supports thesis |satisfactorily supports thesis |limited support of thesis |inadequate support of thesis |

|Information |substantial/relevant outside |some relevance but connection is |inaccurate or irrelevant examples|no use of outside information |

| |information |not completely clear | |shown |

| |All outside info is cited |Most outside info is cited |Citation of outside info is | |

|/10 |correctly (OI) |correctly (OI) |unclear | |

|Organization |Includes a well developed intro |Includes a satisfactory intro and |Intro and conclusion are present |No intro or conclusion present |

| |and conclusion that |conclusion that sets up basic |but do not relate to topic and/or|no plan evident |

| |appropriately sets up the themes|themes/ideas |are confusing |considerable grammatical and |

|/10 |well developed |satisfactorily developed |Essay may be missing an intro or |spelling errors |

| |consistently demonstrates a |demonstrates a clear and logical |conclusion | |

| |clear and logical plan of |plan of |poorly organized | |

| |organization |mostly clearly written |lacks focus | |

| |clearly written | |grammatical and spelling errors | |

| | | |throughout | |

Total: /70

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download