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Effective Leaders Social Studies Rubric

A rubric to assess the components that make up a fair and effective leader. The students will also demonstrate an awareness of how their specified leader changed their community.

Rubric Code: U9842C

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

Effective Leaders A rubric to assess the components that make up a fair and effective leader. The students will also demonstrate an awareness of how their specified leader changed their community.
	Poor 3 pts	Acceptable 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Research Students demonstrate competence in using various different credible sources to obtain information on the topic.	Poor Independently located a wide range of information about their leader, using three or more different sources.	Acceptable Located some information independently or with a little guidance of the teacher. Has atleast two credible sources of information.	Excellent Located a little information with considerable assistance. Only one source demonstrates credibility.
Information Judges amount and quality of information given on the assignment.	Poor Missing 2 or more pieces of information regarding charactistics of an effective leader and atleast 2 ways in the leader enacted change within his or her community. Very little information gained.	Acceptable Mostly complete, missing no more than one required piece of information. More information given.	Excellent Very well done. Complete information on qualities, defintions of qualities, and how this leader enacted positive change within his community.
Writing Skills Judges a student's writing fluency and ability to communicate ideas in a clear and understandable manner.	Poor Was able to connect like ideas together in his/her writing using own words. Each individual fact was placed in an appropriate place in the report so report flowed easily.	Acceptable Was able to connect some ideas in his/her writing by copying and adding conjuctions. Some transitions and different parts of the paper could use a little rewording.	Excellent Wasn't able to connect ideas clearly. Report did not have any sense of writing fluency.
Mechanics Judges the mechanical skills of the student.	Poor Full of capitalization and punctuation errors. Student has used incomplete sentences or only phrases. Not very original or varried sentences.	Acceptable Only two or less punctuation and capitalization errors. One or a few sentences that are repetitive or unimaginative.	Excellent Good use of capitalization and punctuation skills. Complete and interesting sentences.
Neatness of Written Work Judges the readibility of the sentences or words on the page. (Typing words on computer and pasting onto poster or other presentation format is acceptable).	Poor Sloppy handwriting. Hard to read or massive gaps between words, shows alot of erasing and is not a clean looking copy.	Acceptable Fair handwriting, the student made some effort to write neatly, but there are still a few messy words or too many erase marks.	Excellent Neatly done with little or no appearance of erasing. Words are nicely spaced and neat in appearance.

Keywords:

Leadership, Social Studies, Qualities, Community

Subjects:

Social Sciences

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