Rubric for Annotated Bibliography

This rubric was developed as part of the lesson plan Explorations and Exchanges by Sandra Yamamoto, pages 19-21 (SLM,
January 2010). It is to be used as a note taking assessment tool.

Criteria Exceeds (3) Proficient (2) Approaches (1) Score

Annotations All annotations include Most of the annotations Most of the annotations
summaries include summaries lack summaries
Relevance and Relevance and Relevance and
usefulness of source to usefulness of source to usefulness of source to
understanding the topic understanding the topic understanding the topic
is explained is attempted isnt apparent
All information is logically Most of the information Most of the information
and clearly written and is logically and is not logically and
understandable clearly written and clearly written and
understandable understandable

Bibliography All resources are Most of the resources are Few resources are
annotated annotated annotated
All resources are correctly Most of the resources are Most of the resources are
cited in MLA format correctly cited in MLA not correctly cited in
format MLA format

Content Accurate examples detail Examples are mostly Examples are not accurate
knowledge and support the topic accurate and support and do not support the
Information provides the topic topic
reader essential Information provides Information provides
knowledge of the topic basic knowledge on minimal coverage of the
Use of content most aspects of the topic
area vocabulary is topic Use of content area
consistently precise and Use of content area vocabulary contains
accurate vocabulary is usually significant errors
accurate

Sources Citations represent Citations represent Citations represent
various media (e.g., various media (e.g., limited range of media
book, journal, websites) book, journal, websites) Most of the cited
All cited resources come Most of the cited resources do not come
from authoritative resources come from from authoritative
sources authoritative sources sources
All resources are Most of the resources are Most of the resources
appropriate for target appropriate for target are not appropriate for
audience audience target audience

Total Score

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