Discussion Board Grading Matrix CRIM 1307 Introduction to Crime and Criminology The criteria for grading your discussion board participation include the following: • Consistent posting of insightful comments and questions that adds to the on-topic discussion • Bringing in relevant and new outside material • When disagreeing with another student’s ideas, participants will state his/her disagreement or objections clearly, but respectfully. • You must post an original post to get credit for this assignment. If you only post a response you will receive 0 points on this assignment. Each post (15 points for original post and 10 points for response post) will be graded as follows: Category Higher Points Varying Points Lower Points Original Post: Delivery to Post (2.5 pt. Max) Uses grammatically correct posts; rare misspelling (2.5 pts.) Occasional to limited grammatical or spelling problems in posts (1 pt.) Utilizes poor spelling and grammar; posts appear “hasty” (.5 pt.) Original Post: Relevance of Post (5 pt. Max) Posts topics related to discussion posts; cites additional outside references to the topic (5 pts.) Post is slightly off-topic; offers no further insight or outside material into the topic (3 pts.) Posts topics which do not relate to the discussion content; makes short or irrelevant remarks (1 pt.) Original Post: Content of Post (5 pt. Max) Post contains new and pertinent information and ideas relevant to the post; is not repetitive (5 pts.) Post contains some pertinent information or ideas, sometimes ideas are repetitive. (3 pts.) Same ideas and information are simply reworded– very repetitive with no real contribution. (1 pt.) Original Post: Expression within the Post (5 pt. Max) Expresses opinions and ideas in clear, concise manner with obvious connection to the topic (2.5 pts.) Post lacks connection to the topic or unclear connection to topic (1 pt.) Does not express opinions or ideas clearly; no connection to the topic (.5 pt.) Response Post: Contribution to the Course (5 pt. Max) Attempts to motivate group discussion; presents a substantive response to another students post (5 pts.) Attempts to motivate group discussion; exhibits marginal effort to contribute with a substantive response (3 pts.) Makes no effort to participate to learning; indifferent to discussion of the topic. Just agreeing or disagreeing without more (1 pt.) Response Post: Respect (5 pt. Max) Respectful in postings, particularly in expressing dissenting opinions with others (5 pts.) Respectful in postings, may need to express dissenting opinions in a more respectful manner (3 pts.) Disrespectful in postings, disparages others’ opinions, makes verbal attacks (1 pt.)
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