Psychology 350
Psychopathology

Dr. Salvatore (Sam) Catanzaro
Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
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Illinois State University

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Grading Case Discussions

This is the scoring system that will be used on your case discussion assignments. We hope it helps you understand the criteria on which your work is being evaluated.

These 20-point assignments are designed to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on course material, integrate it, and apply it. The best answers will include correct information from lectures/text and a thoughtful application of this information, articulated clearly, logically, and coherently.

While grading these assigments, we will identify desired features of the answer, and award points for each feature present. Component scores will be totalled. The global scale is A+ = 20, A = 18, B = 16, etc.

Facts/Info: 6 points

Looking for: is the relevant information included? how correct is it?

 Scale:

 6 = excellent

 

 5 = very good

 

4 = good

 

  3 = acceptable

 

 2 = weak

 

 1 = poor

 

 0 = abominable

Integration/Application: 10 points

Looking for: Does the student understand and respond to the question? how creative is the answer? how reasonable/sensible? is there evidence that the person has integrated more than one source of info (different parts of chapter, text plus lecture)?

 Scale:

 10 = excellent (A)

 

 8 = good to very good (B)

 

6 = barely adequate (D)

 

 4 = weak

 

 2 = poor

 

 0 = absent or abominable

Style: 2 points

 Scale:

 4 = easy to read, flows well; hardly any typos/grammatical/spelling errors

 

 2 = okay, adequate; a few typos/grammatical/spelling errors

 

 0 = difficult to read;many typos/grammatical/spelling errors


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Salvatore J. Catanzaro, Illinois State University, Department of Psychology