CRITERIA FOR MARKS

Academic Mark	A	B	C	D	FAIL
Quality of Work	Demonstrates an exemplary level of understanding of content standards and tasks.	Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the content standards and tasks.	Demonstrates an understanding of the content standards and tasks.	Demonstrates a limited understanding of the content standards and tasks.	Demonstrates an inability to understand the content standards and tasks.
Interpretation and Application	Demonstrates exceptional and fluent skills in analyzing, synthesizing, and drawing inferences from observations and other data or information.	Demonstrates fluent skills in analyzing, synthesizing, and drawing inferences from observations and other data or information.	Demonstrates satisfactory skills in analyzing, synthesizing, and drawing inferences from observations and data or information.	Demonstrates a limited ability to analyze, synthesize, and draw inferences from observations and other data or information.	Demonstrates an incomplete and/or inaccurate analysis of data or information that has been collected.
Thinking and Reasoning Skills	Demonstrates an insightful and thorough use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances in a variety of contexts.	Demonstrates an insightful use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances in a variety of contexts.	Demonstrates use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances in a variety of contexts.	Demonstrates limited use of prior knowledge and skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances.	Demonstrates incomplete use of prior knowledge/skills to create innovative ideas, products or performances.
Quantity of Work	Produces extra work in addition to assigned work, of both teacher-generated and self-initiated toward achieving standards for the course.	Produces extra work in addition to all assigned work, usually teacher-generated and self-initiated toward achieving standards for the course.	Produces the assigned work in achieving standards for the course.	Demonstrates a need to improve in the amount of work completed and effort expended toward achieving standards for the course.	Demonstrates no improvement of the work completed and in the effort expended toward achieving standards for the course.

WORK HABITS	E	S	U
Effort	Demonstrates exceptional determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.	Demonstrates determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.	Demonstrates little determination in accomplishing tasks and mastering standards.
Responsibility	Accepts complete responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates honesty, fairness, and integrity.	Accepts responsibility for personal actions and frequently demonstrates honesty, fairness, and integrity.	Accepts little responsibility for personal actions.
Attendance	Maintains excellent attendance record by consistently avoiding unnecessary absences or tardies.	Maintains a satisfactory attendance record by avoiding unnecessary absences or tardies.	Makes little effort to maintain a satisfactory attendance record; is frequently absent or tardy without excuses.
Evaluation	Makes explicit effort to examine work using both teacher-generated and self-generated criteria.	Makes effort to examine work using teacher-generated criteria.	Makes use only of teacher-generated criteria to examine work on an inconsistent basis.

COOPERATION	E	S	U
Courtesy	Maintains courteous relations with the teacher and other students and consistently works without disturbing others.	Demonstrates courteous relations with the teacher and other students and generally works without disturbing others.	Demonstrates discourteous behavior towards the teacher and other students and consistently lacks consideration for others.
Conduct	Obeys rules, respects public and personal property and actively promotes the general welfare.	Obeys rules, respects public and personal property and supports the general welfare.	Shows disregard for rules; has little respect for public and personal property and often opposes the general welfare.
Improvement	Assumes responsibility for personal improvement and rarely needs correction.	Tries to improve and usually accepts corrections in an objective manner.	Makes little attempt to improve and shows indifference or resistance to corrections.
Class Relations	Demonstrates leadership ability to work with others in a variety of situations to set and achieve goals.	Demonstrates ability to work with others in a variety of situations to set and achieve goals.	Demonstrates little ability to work with others in a variety of situations to set and achieve goals.