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Inquiry and Analysis VALUE Rubric

Inquiry is the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand. – The National Forum on Information Literacy. This rubric addresses the products of analysis and inquiry, not the processes themselves. The complexity of inquiry and analysis tasks is determined in part by how much information or guidance is provided to a student and how much the student constructs. The more the student constructs, the more complex the inquiry process. For this reason, while the rubric can be used if the assignments or purposes for work are unknown, it will work most effectively when those are known. Finally, faculty are encouraged to adapt the essence and language of each rubric criterion to the disciplinary or interdisciplinary context to which it is applied. Courtesy of AAC&U: http://aacu.org/value/index.cfm

Rubric Code: V54XW8

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Grade Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate

Inquiry and Analysis VALUE Rubric
	Capstone 4 pts	Milestone 3 pts	Milestone 2 pts	Benchmark 1 pts
Topic selection	Capstone Identifies a creative, focused, and manageable topic that addresses potentially significant yet previously less-explored aspects of the topic.	Milestone Identifies a focused and manageable/doable topic that appropriately addresses relevant aspects of the topic.	Milestone Identifies a topic that while manageable/doable, is too narrowly focused and leaves out relevant aspects of the topic.	Benchmark Identifies a topic that is far too general and wide-ranging as to be manageable and doable.
Existing Information Existing Knowledge, Research, and/or Views	Capstone Synthesizes in-depth information from relevant sources representing various points of view/approaches.	Milestone Presents in-depth information from relevant sources representing various points of view/approaches.	Milestone Presents information from relevant sources representing limited points of view/approaches.	Benchmark Presents information from irrelevant sources representing limited points of view/approaches.
Design Process	Capstone All elements of the methodology or theoretical framework are skillfully developed. Appropriate methodology or theoretical frameworks may be synthesized from across disciplines or from relevant subdisciplines.	Milestone Critical elements of the methodology or theoretical framework are appropriately developed, however, more subtle elements are ignored or unaccounted for.	Milestone Critical elements of the methodology or theoretical framework are missing, incorrectly developed, or unfocused.	Benchmark Inquiry design demonstrates a misunderstanding of the methodology or theoretical framework.
Analysis	Capstone Organizes and synthesizes evidence to reveal insightful patterns, differences, or similarities related to focus.	Milestone Organizes evidence to reveal important patterns, differences, or similarities related to focus.	Milestone Organizes evidence, but the organization is not effective in revealing important patterns, differences, or similarities.	Benchmark Lists evidence, but it is not organized and/or is unrelated to focus.
Conclusions	Capstone States a conclusion that is a logical extrapolation from the inquiry findings.	Milestone States a conclusion focused solely on the inquiry findings. The conclusion arises specifically from and responds specifically to the inquiry findings.	Milestone States a general conclusion that, because it is so general, also applies beyond the scope of the inquiry findings.	Benchmark States an ambiguous, illogical, or unsupportable conclusion from inquiry findings.
Limitations and Implications	Capstone Insightfully discusses in detail relevant and supported limitations and implications.	Milestone Discusses relevant and supported limitations and implications.	Milestone Presents relevant and supported limitations and implications.	Benchmark Presents limitations and implications, but they are possibly irrelevant and unsupported.

Keywords:

Inquiry, Analysis, Conclusions, Limitations, Implications

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(General)

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(Other)

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