Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs

Criteria Unacceptable Acceptable Target

Blog Post by Students:  Content is not  Summarizes  Provide insightful
Content and reviewed or content and creative
Writing Style mentioned in blog  Some grammar, analysis of content
 Writing is illegible punctuation,  Attentive to rules of
and not able to be spelling and grammar,
understood by capitalization errors punctuation,
reader spelling and
capitalization
Blog Post by Students:  Made no  Made few  Made many
Quality connections to connections to connections to
background, prior background, prior background, prior
knowledge or knowledge and knowledge and
current studies current studies current studies

Students Responses to  Students did not  Weak feedback  Thoughtful

Peer Blogs: reply to their peer only providing 1 of feedback provided
Feedback and  If reply was made, the following: with compliment,
Comments it was not relevant compliment, suggestions for
to topic suggestion or improvement and
 Feedback was connection personal
unfriendly and ill  Feedback delivered connections to
meaning did not show topic
cooperation or was  Feedback given in
negative in nature a timely and
positive manner