2. The Cranston High School West graduate will demonstrate effective utilization of the problem solving/research process.
Targeted Achievement: 2.1 Utilize and demonstrate higher order thinking skills to research, analyze, and evaluate information from a variety of sources to address a specific task
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Levels of Performance
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Criteria
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Exemplary
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Proficient
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Emerging
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Beginning
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Indicators
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| Identify and define the problem/task | Identifies, isolates, and defines the problem/task and its critical components. | Identifies, isolates, and defines the problem/task and its critical components. | Identifies, isolates, and defines the problem/task. Identifies critical components with teacher assistance. | Recognizes problem / task exists, but cannot isolate or identify it without teacher assistance. |
| Locate multiple sources and extract relevant information | Locates and evaluates information sources for relevancy and validity. Identifies and discards inappropriate sources. Extracts and records relevant information from a variety of media. Investigates a variety of additional primary source references. | Locates and evaluates information sources for relevancy and validity. Extracts and records relevant information from a variety of media. | Locates information sources. Evaluates information for relevancy and validity with teacher assistance. Records information. | Locates information sources. Evaluates information for relevancy and validity and records information with teacher assistance. |
| Analyzes information to assess validity of sources (Information Literacy) |
Independently evaluates sources regarding author, author
credentials, publisher/domain, copyright date, and presentation; identifies
purpose and can distinguish between fact, opinion and biased information;
may contact author/publisher to confirm information found on the site,
verifies information in another information source. All sources used are valid and properly cited. |
Independently evaluates sources regarding author, author
credentials, publisher/domain, copyright date, and presentation; identifies
purpose and can distinguish between fact, opinion and biased information. All sources used are valid and properly cited. |
Has difficulty locating various evaluation criteria for validating content on a website. Teacher assistance is necessary. Errors in source citation format, but required citation information are identified. | Cannot locate evaluation criteria for a website. Citations are incomplete or not done at all. |
| Organize, prioritize and synthesize information from multiple sources | Organizes information in order of priority through synthesis of multiple sources and prior knowledge. Clearly states information in a creative and/or original product in an appropriate content-specific format. | Organizes information in order of priority through synthesis of multiple sources and prior knowledge. Clearly states information in appropriate content-specific format. | Synthesizes and organizes information and makes connections to prior knowledge in appropriate content-specific format with teacher assistance. | Synthesizes and organizes information with teacher assistance. |
| Evaluate effectiveness of process and make corrections /adjustments | Evaluates process and makes corrections / adjustments that are explained in a clear in-depth rationale. Draws conclusion on the affect learning will have on future problem solving. | Evaluates process and makes corrections / adjustments that are explained in a clear rationale. | Evaluates process and makes corrections / adjustments with teacher assistance. | States the process but cannot evaluate without teacher assistance |
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Cranston High School West / Cranston
Area Career and Technical Center
School-Wide Expectations for Student Learning / Targeted Achievement Rubrics Revised spring 2005 |
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