iRubric: Critical Review Rubric

- Demonstrates an excellent understanding of all of the concepts, themes and ideas presented in the work.
- Summary is clear and concise.

Demonstrates an understanding of most of the concepts, themes, and ideas presented in the work.
Summary is clear, but is somewhat repetitive and disorganized.

Demonstrates verly little comprehension of the any of the concepts, themes, and idea presented in the work.
Summary is confusing and incomplete, and suggests that the work was not read in its entirety.

- Well organized with coherent structure
- Sophisticated transitional sentences
often develop one idea from the
previous one or identify their logical
relations. It guides the reader
through the chain of reasoning or
progression of ideas.

- May stray at times from analysis to description.
- Shows a logical progression of ideas
and uses fairly sophisticated
transitional devices; e.g., may move
from least to more important idea.
- Some logical links may be faulty,
but each paragraph clearly relates to
paper's central idea.

- Random organization,
lacking internal paragraph structure
and uses few or inappropriate
transitions. - Paragraphs may lack
topic sentences or main ideas, or
may be too general or too specific to
be effective. - Paragraphs may not all relate to paper's subject.

Student's graphics explain and reinforce screen text and presentation.

Student occasionally uses graphics that rarely support text and presentation.

Student uses superfluous graphics or no graphics