Criteria
| 70%-100%
| 60-69%
| 50-59%
| 0 to 49% Fail
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Generic skills: communication and presentation.
| Comprehensive and correctly structured assessment. Style of writing is very fluent and develops a coherent and logical argument. Excellent referencing. | Well structured report which follows appropriate format but some aspects of layout and referencing could be improved. Style of writing is fairly fluent. Good referencing. | Good report in most aspects but suffers from variations in quality and the layout contains some inadequacies. Style of writing is satisfactory. Referencing needs improving. | Very poor report which is incorrectly structured and contains major errors and omissions. Style of writing lacks coherence and fluency. Poor referencing.
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Knowledge & Understanding
| Demonstrates excellent knowledge of theory and provides critical theoretical underpinning. Very good interpretations and summarising of main themes.
| Wide range of knowledge demonstrated and evidence of good understanding of the topic. Ability to interpret and summarise succinctly. | Good range of knowledge demonstrated but weaknesses in key areas. Some understanding displayed of the topic. Summary and interpretation are satisfactory. | Very poor range of knowledge demonstrated and there are major weaknesses evident in interpretation and understanding. No clear interpretation of main themes. |
Analysis
| Excellent use of theoretical and conceptual models to guide analysis linked with a critical discussion of main themes. Deconstructs the major themes used in the argument. | Very good use of the theoretical and conceptual models with good critical discussion and application. Good evidence of deconstruction. | Use of theory and concepts limited but relevant. Application could be improved and there is a tendency towards description. Must provide more evidence of deconstruction. | Very poor use of theory and very little application of concepts. Very little description with not much evidence of analysis.
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Synthesis/ Creativity/ Application
| Logical presentation of themes with appropriate examples being demonstrated. Very good demonstration of synthesis. Models have been clearly applied to the argument. | Very good account of main themes with sound application. Good attempt at applying models to the argument. .Fairly good attempt at synthesising the salient points. | Good account of main themes with some attempt at application. Limited evidence of synthesis. | Very poor account of main themes with little or no application. No links between models and argument. |
Evaluation
| Shows clear evidence of in-depth critical reflection and evaluation of the argument by providing a robust defence of the opinions presented in the assessment. | Shows evidence of critical reflection and evaluation and a fairly cohesive defence of the argument | Shows some evidence of critical reflection but could have been developed. | Shows little or no evidence of critical reflection and needs to be much more developed. There is no defence of the opinions presented. |