Scoring Guide Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Criterion 1

Use scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue.

Distinguished

Uses relevant scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue, including the reasons that the chosen information helps to explain a health care problem or issue.

Proficient

Uses scholarly information to explain a health care problem or issue.

Basic

Identifies scholarly information that could explain a health care problem or issue.

Non Performance

Does not identify scholarly information that could explain a health care problem or issue.

Criterion 2

Analyze the problem or issue.

Distinguished

Analyzes the problem or issue including definition, who is involved, and causes of the problem or issue.

Proficient

Analyzes the problem or issue.

Basic

Identifies a problem or issue.

Non Performance

Does not identify a problem or issue.

Criterion 3

Discuss potential solutions for the problem or issue.

Distinguished

Discusses potential solutions for the problem or issue, including potential consequences for ignoring the issue.

Proficient

Discusses potential solutions for the problem or issue.

Basic

Describes a potential solution for the problem or issue.

Non Performance

Does not describe a potential solution for the problem or issue.

Criterion 4

Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.

Distinguished

Explains the ethical principles if potential solution was implemented and enriches the analysis with examples from the readings.

Proficient

Explains the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.

Basic

Mentions ethical principles if the potential solution was implemented.

Non Performance

Does not mention ethical principles if the potential solution was implemented.

Criterion 5

Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Distinguished

Produces text free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Proficient

Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Basic

Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times.

Non Performance

Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow.

Criterion 6

Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.

Distinguished

Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources.

Proficient

Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.

Basic

Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use.

Non Performance

Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.