Writing

Task

Annotation Assignment Rubric

Qualities of Full Credit
Response (2 points)

Qualities of Partial Credit

Response (1 point)

No Credit Response

Prompt 1: Identify 3 features of Quality Feedback present in Mr. Effective Coachs feedback session with
Ms. McRookie. Explain each feature and describe in detail, including short quotes, how each feature is
present in the session.


Quantity of Evidence









Quality of Explanation

Author accurately identifies 3

or more features of Quality
Feedback.

Author thoroughly explains
first feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
specificity where it manifests
in the coaching session.

Author thoroughly explains
second feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
specificity where it manifests
in the coaching session.


Author thoroughly explains
third feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
specificity where it manifests
in the coaching session.

Author accurately identifies

1-2 features of Quality
Feedback.
Author partially explains the
first feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
some degree of specificity
where it manifests in the
coaching session.

Author partially explains the
second feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
some degree of specificity
where it manifests in the
coaching session.

Author partially explains the
third feature of Quality
Feedback and indicates with
some degree of specificity
where it manifests in the
coaching session.

Author does not correctly
identify any features of
Quality Feedback.
Author does not explain the
first example represents a
feature of Quality Feedback
or does not indicate where in
the coaching session it
manifests.

Author does not explain the
second example of Quality
Feedback or does not indicate
where in the coaching session
it manifests.

Author does not explain the
third example represents a
feature of Quality Feedback
or does not indicate where in
the coaching session it
manifests.




Writing Task

Qualities of Full Credit

Response (2 points)

Qualities of Partial Credit

Response (1 point)

No Credit Response

Prompt 2: What evidence from their coaching session suggests that Ms. McRookie and Mr. Effective Coach
share a common Instructional Vision? Use short quotes to specify your examples and explain how your
examples suggests a shared Instructional Vision.

Quantity of Evidence





Quality of Explanation

Author accurately identifies 2 Author accurately identifies 1 Author does not accurately
examples of a shared
example of a shared
identify any examples of a
instructional vision.
instructional vision.
shared instructional vision.

Author thoroughly explains
Author partially explains how Author fails to explain how
how first example indicates a first example indicates a
first example indicates a
shared instructional vision
shared instructional vision
shared instructional vision or
and indicates with high
and indicates with some
does not specify where it
degree of specificity where it specificity where it manifests manifests in the coaching
manifests in the coaching
in the coaching session.
session.
session.

Author thoroughly explains
Author partially explains how Author fails to explain how
how second example
second example indicates a
second example indicates a
indicates a shared
shared instructional vision
shared instructional vision or
instructional vision and
and indicates with some
does not specify where it
indicates with high degree of specificity where it manifests manifests in the coaching
specificity where it manifests in the coaching session.
session.
in the coaching session.


Writing Task

Qualities of Full Credit

Response (2 points)

Qualities of Partial Credit

Response (1 point)

No Credit Response

Prompt 3: Using limited direct quotes, indicate with specificity one example of where Mr. Effective Coach
and Ms. McRookie pay any Fixed Mindset Tax. Explain how the example constitutes Fixed Mindset Tax.

Quantity of Evidence


Quality of Explanation

Author thoroughly explains

how the example constitutes
Fixed Mindset Tax and
indicates with high degree of
specificity where it occurs in
the session.

Author accurately identifies 1 Author does not accurately
example of Fixed Mindset
identify an example of Fixed
Tax.
Mindset Tax.

Author adequately explains
Author fails to explain how
how the example constitutes the example constitutes Fixed
Fixed Mindset Tax and
Mindset Tax or does not
indicates with some
indicate where it occurs in
specificity where it occurs in the session.
the session.

Prompt 4: Using limited direct quotes, explain how Mr. Effective Coach responds to Fixed Mindset
behavior, and explain how this response effectively lowers the Fixed Mindset Tax.

Quantity of Evidence




Quality of Explanation

Author thoroughly evaluates

the effectiveness of Mr.
Effective Coachs response to
Fixed Mindset behavior and
indicates with high degree of
specificity where this
response occurs.

Author accurately identifies 1
example of Mr. Effective
Coach responding to Fixed
Mindset behavior.

Author adequately evaluates
the effectiveness of Mr.
Effective Coachs response to
Fixed Mindset behavior and
indicates with some
specificity where this
response occurs.

Author does not accurately

identify an example of Mr.
Effective Coach responding to
Fixed Mindset behavior.
Author fails to evaluate the
effectiveness of Mr. Effective
Coachs response to Fixed
Mindset behavior or does not
indicate where the response
occurs.



Writing Task

Qualities of Full Credit

Response (2 points)

Qualities of Partial Credit

Response (1 point)

No Credit Response

Prompt 5: We would hypothesize that this coaching session suggests that Ms. McRookie is in the middle circle (i.e. Skill B) of
skill acquisition represented in The Snowman Effect. Explain how the teachers behaviors suggest that she is in the middle
Skill B acquisition loop.







Author thoroughly explains
Author adequately explains
Author fails to accurately

why Ms. McRookie is in the
how Ms. McRookie is in the
explain how Ms. McRookie is
Quality of Explanation
Skill B acquisition loop, and Skill B acquisition loop.
in the Skill B acquisition

also explains why her

loop.

behavior is not illustrative of
Skill A or Skill C (i.e.
bottom or top circles).


Overall Quality of Writing



The authors writing is easy
The authors writing is
The authors writing is nearly
to follow; if there are
difficult, but not impossible,
impossible to follow; the
grammar and/or spelling
to follow; there are multiple
grammar and/or spelling
mistakes, they dont prevent grammar and/or spelling
mistakes hinder the readers
the reader from following the mistakes that take away from ability to follow the narrative.
narrative.
the overall readability of the

narrative.

Total Score _______ points scored out of 24 possible points.

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