Career Exploration Report Rubric
Career Development 2008-2009
CaloosaMiddle School
Ms. Tikka

The RUBRICfor your Career Exploration Reportfor Career Development is found below. Please pay attention to the following five categories to write your report. The highest score for each category is 20 points. Your grade will be based upon these FIVE categories. For a perfect score, you would excel in all 5 categories. Therefore, your grade would be 5 x 20 points = 100%.

Further Instructions:Please be sure to write your report in your own words and to spell check before turning it in for a grade. Also, please remember to keep a separate page for your references and to keep up with your references as you are writing your report. A hint for references is that accurate references reflect actual websites where the information came from-- not homepages. This is an accuratereference:

CATEGORY / 20 points / 15 points / 10 points / 5 points
1. Organization / Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings. / Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs. / Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed. / The information appears to be disorganized.
2. Quality of Information / Information clearly relates to the main topic. It includes several supporting details and/or examples. / Information clearly relates to the main topic. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples. / Information clearly relates to the main topic. No details and/or examples are given. / Information has little or nothing to do with the main topic.
3. Mechanics / No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. / Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors / A few grammatical spelling or punctuation errors. / Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
4. Paragraph Construction / All paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence. / Most paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence. / Paragraphs included related information but were typically not constructed well. / Paragraphing structure was not clear and sentences were not typically related within the paragraphs.
5. Bibliography / References / All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented in the desired format. / All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format. / All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format. / Some sources are not accurately documented.

Date Created: October 08, 2008