Article Review Grading Rubric
The following criteria will be used to grade your article review. Keep in mind that the score requirement described under
each point outlines the minimum performance that must be demonstrated in order to achieve that score. The grade
received for each article will account for 5%, with a total of five accountable for 25% of your final grade.
Performance Indicators
Objective/
Criteria
Excellent
(4 points)
Very Good
(3 points)
Satisfactory
(2 points)
Minimally Responsive
(1 point)
Un-acceptable
(0 points)
1) Summarizes the Provides a very thorough
context and
and clear and concise
content of the
summary of the article
selected article
context and content.
Provides a clear
and concise
summary of the
article context and
content.
Provides a clear but
shallow summary of the
article; may be excessively
brief or may include some
extraneous information.
Provides a somewhat
muddled, unclear and
rambling summary of the
article.
Provides an unclear and
unintelligible summary of the
article
OR
No summary at all.
2) Identifies and
describes your
personal reaction
to the article
Thoroughly describes your
personal reaction to the
article; includes discussion
of the relevant issues within
the article.
Describes your
personal reaction to
the article; includes
a simplistic
discussion of the
relevant issues
within the article.
Describes your personal
reaction to the article;
includes no discussion of
the relevant issues within
the article.
Attempts to describe your
personal reaction to the
article, but lacks a logical
flow and reaction is
muddled; no discussion
of any relevant issues in
the article.
Provides an unclear, unintelligible
and illogical description of
personal reaction
OR
No description of personal
reaction at all.
3) Grammar,
mechanics, and
APA style for
references and
citations
Contains all correct
information regarding article
title, author name, and article
source and date.
Consistently contains
accurate and proper
grammatical conventions,
spelling, and punctuation.
Clearly and consistently
uses proper APA formatting
Response is totally unintelligible
Contains all correct Contains mostly correct info Contains incorrect info
OR
info regarding article regarding article title, author regarding article title,
No response
title, author name, name, and article source and author name, and article
and article source date.
source and date.
Contains frequent errors in Contains numerous errors
and date.
Contains accurate grammatical conventions,
in grammatical
and proper
spelling, and punctuation;
conventions, spelling, and
errors begin to interfere
punctuation; substantially
grammatical
with paper’s meaning.
interferes with paper’s
conventions,
Inconsistently uses APA
meaning.
spelling, and
for citations/references.
punctuation most of formatting for
the time; errors do citations/references
not interfere with
paper’s meaning.
Consistently uses
APA for citations/
references
Consistently fails to use
APA for references/citation