Final Assessment for Global Issues

As a final assessment for this course you will (respond in a well-written reflection)(meet with
me and explain your understanding in a well-prepared, articulate 20 minute interview) in
which you explain clearly the growth in your understanding and learning of Global Issues this
year.

Read the Enduring Understandings from the Global Issues Course outline.
Our ecological footprint is exceeding Earths capacity to sustain biodiversity and human life.
Our decisions and actions matter; they have social, environmental, economic and political
consequences.
The media do not provide neutral reflections of reality; they affect our decisions and actions.
A global economic system that depends upon and perpetuates unrestrained consumerism is
unsustainable.
Economic and technological development has contributed greatly to society, but often with
harmful human and environmental consequences.
Indigenous knowledge and world views offer alternatives to prevailing assumptions about how
to live with one another within the environment.
Political systems distribute power, privilege and wealth indifferent ways, some more justly than
others.
A just society respects human diversity and recognizes universal, equal and inalienable human
rights.
There is no them or over there; we all belong to the human species, our concerns are
interdependent, and we are part of the natural world.






Rubric
Student: __________________________________ Task: ____________________________________
Date: _____________________________________ Assessor: Teacher

Criteria Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Knowledge and Understanding
information, ideas
presents limited
appropriate and
relevant
information
presents some
appropriate and
relevant
information and
ideas
presents
considerable
appropriate and
relevant
information and
ideas
presents well-
thought-out and
insightful
information and
ideas
use of evidence
provides minimal
evidence to
support
interpretations and
analyses
provides some
specific and
relevant evidence
to support
interpretations and
analyses
provides
considerable
specific and
relevant evidence
to support
interpretations and
analyses
provides thorough,
convincing
evidence to
support
interpretations and
analyses
Critical Thinking
analysis
provides little
logical analysis and
explanation
provides some
logical analysis and
explanation
provides sufficient
logical analysis and
explanation
provides highly
effective logical
analysis and
explanation
critical thinking
addresses issues
and values with
little application to
self and real world
addresses issues
and values makes
some connections
to self and real
world
addresses issues
and values and
makes connections
to self and real
world with some
insight
addresses issues
and values and
makes connections
to self and real
world with
considerable
insight
Communication
organization
structure and
organization are
inconsistent
structure and
organization are
somewhat logical
structure and
organization are
logical
structure and
organization are
highly effective
clarity
communicates with
limited clarity
communicates with
some clarity
communicates with
considerable clarity
communicates with
a high degree of
clarity

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