Scoring Rubric for Mining Resources

The resources available on the web site are the result of many hours of work, and are a valuable commodity to assist you in preparing your project. In addition to the FGCU library webpages and databases, use these resources to find data and information. This rubric demonstrates how I think you can best use these pages to meet that goal.

Grade

Data Provided

Sides of Issues

Evaluation of Resource & Citation

Provides at least 4 resources and information acquired from each of the categories on the resources pages (interest groups or organizations (.org), government pages (.gov), news and periodicals (.com)).

Each side of the issue is very well represented in the entire composite of the information mined. This means you have all sides from each resource category, and have up-to date data showing all aspects when the entire collection is compiled. You have considered political, social, economic, and technological aspects well.

Demonstrate very clear understanding of potential bias of resource including author background, and publisher, and provides a complete citation.

Provides at least 3 resources and information acquired from each of the categories on the resources pages (interest groups or organizations (.org), government pages (.gov), news and periodicals (.com)).

Each side of the issue is fairly-well represented in most of the composite of the data represented. This means you have all sides from the total resources and have data showing most aspects when the entire collection is compiled.

Demonstrate good understanding of potential bias of resources and provides a complete citation

Provides at least 2 resources and information acquired from each of the categories on the resources pages (interest groups or organizations (.org), government pages (.gov), news and periodicals (.com)).

Each side of the issue is represented in parts of composite of the data represented. This means you have many side from most resource categories, and have some data showing many aspects when the entire collection is compiled. You consider some, but not all of the political, social, economic, and moral aspects.

Demonstrate some understanding of potential bias of resource and provides a nearly complete citation

Provides at least 1 resource and information acquired from two categories on the resources pages (interest groups or organizations (.org), government pages (.gov), news and periodicals (.com)).

Primarily one side of the issue is presented in the data mined.

Demonstrate little or no understanding of potential bias of resource and the citation is incomplete