Graduate Reflection Writing Rubric

Components	Unacceptable 1-1.5	Acceptable 2-2.5	Target 3
Title Selection	Title is missing or not related to paper.	Title mostly identifies theme of the paper	Title is attractive and appealing to theme of the paper. Is related to the paper.
Theoretical Research Based (topic in special education, families, and community collaboration, consultation etc. utilizing CEC ten core standards Name of topic (standard):	Paper is limited on special education topic, families, and community collaboration issues, and uses very minimal CEC ten core standards in its design.	Paper has adequate reflection theoretically on special education topics, families, and community collaboration issues, and uses CEC’s ten core standards as a baseline in its design.	Paper is very clear and concise and candidate struggled reflectively however, met topics on families, and community collaboration issues and uses CEC’s ten core standards empirically.
Responsiveness to Cultural and Exceptionalities	Stereotypical and insensitive tones were throughout the paper. First person language was not utilized	General understanding of cultural and exceptional populations was utilized without cultural and insensitive overtones.	Non-biased reflections exemplify the appreciation and the awareness of cultural and exceptional populations.
Understanding of Best Practices in the Field	Limited understanding of current best practices in the field	Demonstrates and understanding of few current models of best practices in the field	Strong understanding of current best practices and research in the field.
Writing conventions	Paper has many syntactical and grammatical errors and does not follow the APA guidelines Refer to the writing center.	Paper has limited syntactical and grammatical errors and APA style is utilized throughout	Paper is “error” free as uses APA guidelines throughout. Paper is “publishable
Conclusions and Future Implications	Culmination activities of the paper not addressed to the content addressed in the body of the paper. Conclusions seem unrealistic based on present data.	Some conclusions are tied to the ideas in the paper and provide authentic realistic implications	Conclusions are strongly tied to the ideas discussed in the paper and provide realistic implications to special education.

(Adapted and used with permission from Chicago State University)

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