Wikipedia:CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Assignment 3 Marking Rubric/Fall 2019/Course Overview/Assignment 3 Marking Rubric

Assignment #3 - Article Improvement Marking Rubric

Student Name:

Wikipedia Article Title:

This assignment is worth 10% of the course grade. Ideal student work shows the changes they are planning to make and provides a clear rationale, gives a short appraisal of the validity of the resource that they used as a reference and identifies areas of nuance or controversy with the content and how they resolved this in their proposed changes.

Please record your marks with any specific feedback provided below the questions (feel free to copy and paste from the sandboxes).

1)      The planned 1-2 sentences are clear, written in simple language, free of jargon and understandable to a 12-year-old (grade 8). Technical and medical terms are wiki-linked if they have not yet appeared in the article. “People-first” language is used and the word “patient” is avoided (i.e. “People with diabetes” rather than “diabetics”). 2 marks

2)      Each of the new sentences proposed for the article has been justified by the student. This justification includes why the change is necessary, where the information came from and why the content they are adding or replacing is inadequate.  3 marks

3)      The student has shown areas of ambiguity or controversy for the proposed change and the position taken has been clearly justified. 2 marks

(note if there is no possible controversy or ambiguity, skip this section and add 1 mark to questions 2 and 4 for a total grade of 10)

4)      The student has identified any validity issues or potential bias within the secondary source they have chosen to support their proposed change. The student’s written content demonstrates an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence they have identified. The student can speculate on potential bias of their source and whether (and how) that might have affected their extracted information. 3 marks

                        Grade:            /10