Performance Assessment Scoring Rubric

4 - Thorough Understanding

• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the concepts and content needed to successfully complete the activity.
• Demonstrates mastery of the strategies and skills necessary to complete the activity.
• Solves new problems by the creative and appropriate use of prior knowledge and skills.

3 - Good Understanding

• Demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of the most important concepts and content needed to complete the activity.
• Carries out the skills and strategies necessary to complete the activity without critical error.
• Applies prior knowledge and skills to new problems when prompted to do so.

2 - Satisfactory Understanding

• Demonstrates partial understanding of the most important concepts and content needed to successfully complete the activity.
• Carries out the skills and strategies necessary to complete the activity with few critical errors.
• Makes a contribution toward the solving of new problems.

1 - Needs Improvement

• Demonstrates partial understanding of some of the concepts and content needed to successfully complete the activity.
• Applies the skills and strategies needed to complete the activity with partial success.
• Demonstrates partial understanding of some of the concepts and content needed to successfully complete the activity.
• Applies the skills and strategies needed to complete the activity with partial success.
• Demonstrates partial understanding of the relationship of new problems to prior knowledge when prompted to do so.