Student Name: ______Grader: ______
CATEGORY / Professional
“Jedi”
(16-20 pts) / Worker Bee
(11-15 pts) / Apprentice
(6-10 pts) / Novice
(0-5 pts) / Score
Quality of Information / Information clearly relates to biology. It includes several supporting details and/or examples. / Information clearly relates to biology. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples. / Relation of topic to biology is vague. Few connections or supporting details are offered. / Information has little or nothing to do with biology. No relevance or supporting details are offered. / _____/20
Amount of Information / All prompts are addressed and there is a solid discussion for each section (Introduction, Body and Conclusion) / Most prompts are addressed and there is a decent discussion provided for each section. / Many prompts and questions are not addressed. Some discussion is provided for each section; however lacking. / Prompts are not adequately addressed. A thoughtful discussion of topics is lacking. / _____/20
Sources / Article is cited and APA format is used throughout document. The article is both reliable and reputable. / Article is cited for the most part correctly. APA format needs tinkering. Article is reliable and reputable. / Citation is incorrect. APA format is used; however there are several mistakes. Source of article is questionable. / Article is skanky. No reliability of source. There is no citation and/or too many mistakes noted. / _____/20
Mechanics / No grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. / Almost no grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors / A few grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. / Many grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. / _____/20
Organization / Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings. Excellent essay format. / Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs. Good essay format. / Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed. Mediocre essay format. / The information appears to be quite disorganized! Nasty essay format. / _____/20
Instructions:
Read your colleague’s article review carefully and assign a score for each category. Discuss your evaluation with your colleague. Provide constructive remarks and suggestions for improvement below. You will be presenting each other’s articles in class. Be productive! / _____/100
Constructive Remarks and Suggestions for Improvement: