Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Drake University/Global Youth Studies (Spring 2013)/Grading

Grading

Class grades will be earned as follows:

• Two hundred points total.
  

The grading scale is A = 180-200, B = 160-179, C = 140-159, D = 120-139, F<119.

• Research project: Developing and sharing expertise: 60 points, divided.
  

Complete academic research that includes peer-review articles, NGO and government reports and data, books, quality journalism, and course materials. Create a Wikipedia entry on a well-defined topic that is not already on Wikipedia. Work with a classmate to edit each other’s work. Develop a final presentation on the process. The entry will be based on independent library research and selective use of course materials. Components evaluated in these points include quality of sources (10 points), quality of peer edits (20 points), quality of final draft in sandbox (10 points), and quality of final Wiki-entry (20 points). I encourage students to write me at the end of the semester to give reflection and insight about what they believe they earned in this area.

• Ongoing Wiki-Skills Homework: 40 points, divided.
  

These homework assignments are located in this course page. They are drawn from guidelines created by the Wikipedia Education Program. With few exceptions, these are points for showing up and doing your best.

• Class participation 20 points.
  

Skills here are: Coming to class having done the reading and incorporated it into your research plans for the semester. I also ask that you work to possess an attitude of engagement, flexibility, and intellectual curiosity.

• Brief Discussions of Readings: 80 points = 8x10
  

To help you prepare for discussion and improve your close reading of the materials. On eight weeks during the course, students will write a 1-2 page single-spaced response to the readings for the week in which they explain, explore, and evoke. Explaining is providing a strong, purposive summary about what the reading is about. Exploring is creating your own analysis of the readings. Evoking involves generating interest and enlightenment for the reader and your classmates: make insightful connections to previous materials, a relevant example, or a new direction to consider. Your goal is to demonstrate you did the readings, thought about it, and can apply the readings to something interesting. Each short response is worth 5 points.

Key Readings

• Furlong, Andy. 2013. Youth Studies: An Introduction. London: Routledge
• Weddady, Nasser and Ahmari, Sohrab. 2012. Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran.
• Gordon, Rachel Hava. 2010. We Fight to Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism. Rutgers Press

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