Exceptional 90-100

Good 80-89

Fair 70-79

Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding (35%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Critical Thinking (35%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic with mainly descriptive writing.

Student makes little or no critical thinking insights.

Communication (30%)

Student communicates ideas extremely clearly with excellent use of grammar and organization of ideas (cohesion, headings, etc). All sources are referenced and/or paraphrased correctly in text and as a list.

Student communicates ideas clearly with good use of grammar and organization of ideas (cohesion, headings, etc). Sources are mostly referenced correctly in text and as a list.

Student communicates ideas with some clarity, but with some questionable use of grammar and organization. Sources referenced with some errors.

Student communicates ideas in an unclear and unconcise way with language and organization that affects the message. Sources referenced with many errors in text and in the list.