Student's Name_______________________________ Unit of Work ______________________________________ Date____________________________

CRITERIA BEGINNING DEVELOPING ACCOMPLISHED EXEMPLARY

Presents their point of view about
Presents a point of view but finds Presents their point of view about
Has difficulty presenting a point of one or more texts providing
Responding to texts it difficult to compare their view one or more texts providing
view examples and justifications from
to the text or texts examples and justifications
additional sources
Needs ongoing assistance to plan, Needs some additional direction Is very independent when asked
Is able to plan, produce a draft
Creating texts produce a draft and publish an to plan, produce a draft and to plan, produce a draft and
and publish an informative text
informative text publish an informative text publish an informative text
Only sometimes applies research Needs some assistance to Is able to identify the most
skills to locate relevant research skills to locate relevant Uses research skills to locate authoritative sources when
Interpreting and
information. The summarised text information, organise and produce relevant information, organise and locating information and then
analysing texts
has not answered the required a summarised text produce a summarised text organising and produce a
research task summarising text
Produces a communication
The communication product is Produces a communication
Knowledge and The communication product product accurately incorporating
missing one or more of the main product accurately incorporating
understanding contains inaccurate information all the main relevant points
points all the main relevant points
explaining new concepts
Chooses the appropriate data Can compare and explain why
Is tentative when choosing
Use of mathematical Is not able to compare different presentation when presenting the some data presentations are more
between data presentations when
ideas data presentations collected data appropriate for particular data
presenting data collections
sets
Limited number of materials used Integrates a range of materials Integrates a wide range of
Integrates some materials into a
in a software application to into appropriate software materials into appropriate
software application to produce
produce reports and applications to produce reports software applications to produce
Use of technology reports and applications. Uses
communication n products. Can and communication products. reports and communication n
many software features, but
use only a few of the software Software application is products. Is able to maximise the
sometimes needs help
features competently used use of the software application
When a problem is encountered
Applying skills learnt Does not help plan or participate Helps plan and does most of the Helps plan and always participates
with implementing the school
about the in the school environmental school environmental actions in all the school environmental
environmental actions, solutions
environment actions agreed to by the class actions
are provided
Makes some links with data and
Processing and Cant link data and predictions. Compares data and predictions. Goes further by suggesting how
predictions. Identifies some
analysing data and Not sure what evidence explains Uses evidence to explain the the investigation can be modified
evidence to explain outcomes of
information the outcomes of the investigations outcome of an investigation to improve the investigation
an investigation