This rubric evaluates mini DBQ or short response assessments on five criteria:
1. Background/context: Students should provide relevant information about the topic before stating their claim.
2. Claim/thesis: The claim should answer the prompt, demonstrate understanding, and restate the prompt.
3. Evidence: Students should cite at least two pieces of evidence from sources and provide accurate sourcing.
4. Analysis: Students should accurately explain how the evidence relates to and supports the claim/thesis.
5. Grammar/structure: Responses should use academic language and have few errors.
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2022-2023 Rubric Mini-Dbq or Short Response
This rubric evaluates mini DBQ or short response assessments on five criteria:
1. Background/context: Students should provide relevant information about the topic before stating their claim.
2. Claim/thesis: The claim should answer the prompt, demonstrate understanding, and restate the prompt.
3. Evidence: Students should cite at least two pieces of evidence from sources and provide accurate sourcing.
4. Analysis: Students should accurately explain how the evidence relates to and supports the claim/thesis.
5. Grammar/structure: Responses should use academic language and have few errors.
Context Student response: Student response: Student response: ❖ provides insightful and relevant information ❖ provides basic information about topic of the ❖ provides no information about topic of the about topic of the prompt before stating the prompt before stating the claim/thesis prompt before stating the claim/thesis claim/thesis
Claim/ 3 points 2 points 1 point
Thesis Student response: Student response: Student response has: ❖ has restated the prompt ❖ has restated the prompt ❖ has restated the prompt ❖ has a relevant and provable claim that ❖ has a provable claim that answers the prompt ❖ has a claim that somewhat answers the answers the prompt and demonstrates an and demonstrates some understanding of the prompt but displays a very limited understanding of the topic topic understanding of the topic
Evidence 5 points 3-4 points 1-2 points
Student response: Student response: Student response: ❖ has two or more pieces of evidence (either a ❖ has two pieces of evidence (either a quote, ❖ has one piece of evidence (either a quote, quote, paraphrase or description) from the paraphrase or description) from either a paraphrase or description) from either a primary or secondary source primary or secondary source primary or secondary source ❖ provides an accurate source of the the ❖ provides an accurate source of the the ❖ provides an accurate source of the the evidence (author name, document name, evidence (author name, document name, date evidence (author name, document name, date date or any other information provided) or any other information provided) or any other information provided)
Analysis 5 points 3-4 points 1-2 points
Student response: Student response: Student response: ❖ has insightful explanation of the ❖ has an accurate explanation of the ❖ has an accurate, but incomplete explanation significance and/or meaning of the evidence significance and/or meaning of the evidence of the significance and/or meaning of the ❖ explains the relationship between the ❖ explains the relationship between the evidence evidence and the claim/thesis and topic in evidence and the claim/thesis in a clear and ❖ explains the relationship between the an insightful and accurate way accurate way evidence and the claim/thesis in a way that is unclear, but somewhat accurate
Grammar/ 5 points 3-4 points 1-2 points
Structure Student response: Student response: Student response: ❖ meets all grade level expectations for use of ❖ meets most grade level expectations for use ❖ does not meet grade level expectations for academic language (no use of ‘I’ or ‘me’ of academic language (no use of ‘I’ or ‘me’ use of academic language (use of ‘I’ or ‘me’ statements, proper framing of quotes and statements, proper framing of quotes and statements, no framing of quotes and analysis) analysis) analysis) ❖ has very few spelling or grammatical errors ❖ has some spelling or grammatical errors ❖ has significant spelling or grammatical errors