Humane Letters 9 Student Name _______________________

Weekly Participation Rubric

Weekly Participation Rubric

10 9 8 7 5 2-0
Frequency Contributions Contributions Student Contributions On occasion the The student
are frequent and are fairly contributes are rare but student speaks does not
articulate (9+ frequent (7-8 occasionally (5- helpful (3-4 (1-2 times verbally
wkly). wkly). 6 times wkly) times wkly) or wkly). participate.
or when when prompted.
prompted.
Depth, Ideas or Ideas or Ideas or Ideas or Ideas reveal a Either no ideas
Relevance, and questions are questions are questions show questions show less than are offered in
Insight especially often insightful, concern and an thorough discussion or,
insightful, original, or thoughtfulness understanding attentiveness to when they are
original, profound and toward the topic of the material. the topic or to offered, they
articulate or show a clear and material the discussion reveal little to
profound and understanding under in seminar. no attention to
show a clear of the topic. discussion. the material or
understanding Ideas or its discussion.
of the topic and questions may
its implications. hint at the
implications of
the text.
Initiative and The student The student The student The student The student The student
Leadership initiates may initiate contributes his tends not to does not offer works against
discussion, discussion, or her ideas to respond or does original the efforts of
introduces new introduce new class and so only when positions or other students
topics or topics or satisfactorily prompted. He respond when and refuses to
questions, or questions, or helps the class or she prompted. As participate. He
proposes propose original proceed when satisfactorily class discussion or she shows
original ideas. ideas. As group serving as a serves as leader, he or she little effort
As group leader leader (when discussion discussion shows little when assigned
(when applicable), the leader. leader. preparation or to lead class
applicable), the student enthusiasm. discussion.
student successfully
successfully establishes a
establishes a means for
means for inquiry to take
inquiry to take place.
place.
Behavior and The student is The student is The student is The student The student is The student is
Attitude always always respectful and focuses when usually off task, consistently off
respectful, respectful, satisfactorily on prompted and consistently has task, and does
focused, and on almost always task, focused on occasionally trouble focusing not focus on
task, keeping focused and on class discussion does so on his on material. class discussion
their attention task, keeping and reading. or her own. or reading.
on the class their attention
discussion and on the class
reading, and discussion and
maintains reading, and
appropriate usually
discussion maintains
posture. appropriate
discussion
posture.
Work The student is The student is The student is The student The student The student
Completion always prepared almost always satisfactorily often does not rarely brings does not bring
with prepared with prepared with bring materials materials to materials to
assignments assignments assignments to class and class and rarely class and work
and material. and materials. and materials. rarely turns in turns in work. is not complete.
work.

Comments:
 Participation Rubric Explanation
Approximately every week, you will be asked to assess your progress in seminar
discussion. You will fill out the following seminar progress report and have the ability to
write comments explaining why you feel you have earned the grade that you have
selected. For each of the five categories, you will be asked to circle the grade that
represents what you have been able to accomplish. I will then collect your assessment
and respond to it with your participation grade for each weekly section of the course.
This allows you to be aware of where you are as far as participation in seminar discussion
is concerned throughout the quarter and semester. This also allows you to either improve
if necessary instead of being disappointed by your grade at the end of the
quarter/semester, or maintain a level of participation that you are satisfied with.
Remember, participation makes up 30% of your grade.