Your participation in class discussions is very important and counts as a significant portion of your final grade. It is expected that you will demonstrate positive attitude and courtesy toward other participants in the discussion and observe good discussion netiquette. The following scale describes how your contributions to the course discussions will be evaluated and assessed for each discussion topic:

Exemplary

(7-10 points)

· Actively participates in discussion

· Responds to issues raised by instructor and other students and often initiates discussion

· Poses new ideas and information relevant to the discussion

· Consistently shows awareness and respect for divergent points of view

· Keeps to the point

· Interacts more than four times with other participants

· Presents ideas that are well developed and supported by historical evidence

· Consistently displays careful, critical analysis of the assigned readings

· Demonstrates clear evidence of critical thinking

· Completes discussions on time

Accomplished

(5-6 points)

· Actively participates in discussion

· Responds to issues raised by instructor and other students

· Poses new ideas and information relevant to the discussion

· Consistently shows awareness and respect for divergent points of view

· Usually keeps to the point

· Interacts more than twice with other participants

· Ideas are well developed

· Consistently provides evidence to support ideas from assigned readings

· Demonstrates evidence of critical thinking

Adequate

(3-4 points)

· Actively participates in discussion

· Responds to issues raised by instructor and other students

· Sometimes poses new ideas and information relevant to the discussion

· Often shows awareness and respect for other points of view

· May get off track

· Interacts at least twice with other participants

· Demonstrates developing ideas

· Provides evidence to support ideas from assigned readings

· Demonstrates some critical thinking

Needs More Work

(1-2 points)

· Inconsistent participation

· Answers only questions posed by instructor

· Does not introduce new ideas or information relevant to the discussion

· May show lack of awareness for other points of view

· May get off track

· Interacts once with other students

· Shows no clear evidence of having completed the readings

· Demonstrates some critical thinking, but needs more work

· Waits until the last-minute to participate in discussions

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