Discussion Assignment and Rubric
For this week’s Discussion Board, each student response is tohave a minimum of 300 words with support from scholarly childnursing/medical magazine literature and should be less than 5 yearsold. The support article is expected to be cited at the end of theresponse in APA format, including citations/referencingappropriately.
Find an article that relates to the Endocrine disease topics.Read the article and provide a bibliography or a short essayversion, in your own words, of the article and post the report.
Discussion Rubric
Criteria |
Exceeds Expectations |
Meets Expectations |
Does Not Meet Expectations |
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4 |
3 |
1-0 |
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Quantity and timeliness |
Submits response prior to the due date and responds to at leastto one other peer. Post contains a minimum of 100 words for initialpost and minimum of 100 words to one other peer’s post |
Submits at least one response prior to the due date. Postcontains less than the minimum of 100 words. |
Does not submit any response. |
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3 |
2 |
1-0 |
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Demonstrates knowledge of content of discussion andapplicability |
Posts / responses to at least one member and shows evidence ofreflection, knowledge and / or understanding of course content andapplicability to course and / or professional practice and includeideas / resources that extend the learning process |
Posts / responses show evidence of reflection, knowledge and /or understanding of course content and applicability to course and/ or professional practice. |
Posts / responses show little evidence of reflection, knowledgeor understanding of course content and applicability to course and/ or professional practice. |
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3 |
2-1 |
0 |
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Spelling and mechanics |
Submits posts that contain grammatically correct sentenceswithout any spelling errors or abbreviations. Cites sourcesutilized. Textbook included in initial post. APA formatcorrect. |
Submits posts that have one (1) or more grammatically incorrectsentences or two (2) or more spelling errors or abbreviations. |
Does not submit posts that are in complete sentences, or two (2)or more of the complete sentences are grammatically incorrect andhave greater than two (2) spelling errors. |
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Total: 10 Points