Assessment Rubrics

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Copyright (C) 2003.
Maiko Hata.

Assessment Rubrics

Attendance: 30%.

You will NOT PASS the course if your attendance is less than 60%.

Quizzes: 25%.

Every week, there will be a quiz at the beginning of the class. The quizzes will include new words, new phrasal-verbs, and reading skills from the previous lessons. The first quiz will not be graded, because you don’t know what type of quiz until you take one!

Exams: 20%.

This will be explained in class.

Reading Journal: 25%.

If you write in English, you get 2 bonus points!
Remember to be POSITIVE when you reply to your teammates! It is different to be "constructive" (helpful, informative, makes a reader think) and to be "mean" (ijiwaru)! Ijiwaru replies will be deleted, and you will receive 0 point.

1) Your own reading journal

10 ~ 8 points	7 ~ 5 points	4 ~ 0 points
It is more than 10 sentences.	It is 5 ~ 9 sentences.	Ii is less than 4 sentences.
It has your name, student number, book title/level, a short summary & your comments.	It has your name, student number, book title/level, a short summary & your comments.	It has only some of the information.
Before the deadline.	Before the deadline.	After the deadline.
It has interesting ideas and gives a lot of new information about your ideas.	It is interesting, but does not have too much new information.	It is difficult to understand.
It is very clear and easy to understand.	Your teammates can understand, but not very easily.	It is difficult to understand.

2) Responding to your teammates’ journal

10 ~ 8 points	7 ~ 5 points	4 ~ 0 points
It is more than 10 sentences.	It is 5 ~ 9 sentences.	It is less than 4 sentences.
It has your name, student number & your comments.	It has most of the information.	It has only some of the information.
Before the deadline.	Before the deadline.	After the deadline.
It has interesting ideas and gives constructive feedback.	It is interesting, but does not have new information.	It is difficult to understand.
It is very clear and easy to understand.	It is easy to understand.	It is difficult to understand.

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Example: GOOD Reading Journal (10 points)

1111111 (ßstudent number), Maiko (ßyour name or a nickname)

"Robinson Crusoe" (ßbook title), level 2 (ßbook level)

I hope you are having a great weekend! I am reading a book about an adventure. The main character's name is Robinson. He was on a ship but the ship had an accident. So now, he lives on an island alone and makes many tools. My life is so convenient, it's hard to imagine their lives! I guess it would force me to somehow prioritize my life completely differently. Right now, I take things like food and my family for granted, but that has to change, huh. Anyway, I read from page 1 to 10, and it is very exciting... Bye for now!

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Example: GOOD Response to Your Teammate (10 points)

2222222 (ßstudent number), Tomohiko.

Hi Maiko! Your book sounds very interesting. Our lives are really very different from theirs, indeed! I rely on technologies like my keitai and computers a lot. I can't remember even how it used to be like when I didn't have my keitai. Do you think it makes you lazier in keeping in touch because of keitai? For example, we can be late if we have keitai because we can let our friends very easily... What do you think?

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Example: BAD Response (0 point)

Tomohiko.

Maiko, your book sounds bad. I don't like adventure books. I think they are boring. They are not realistic.

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