Dr. Alice Christie's
Inspiration™ and Kidspiration™ Rubric

CATEGORY

Excellent

Good

Satisfactory

Needs Improvement

Purpose

Clearly establishes and maintains a precise focus of the concept map or story board.

Establishes a basic purpose and focus of the concept map or story board.

Attempts to establish a purpose, but the concept map or story board is not completely clear.

Concept map or story board does not focus on the purpose and is not clear.

Content

Information is precise and vital to the concept map or story board. All necessary information is present.

Information is appropriate to the concept map or story board.

Information is complete, accurate and necessary to the concept map or story board.

Information is poorly presented or lacks detail. Does not include all necessary information.

Organization

Information on the concept map or story board is very logically organized and clearly connected.

Information on the concept map or story board is mostly organized and connected.

Information on the concept map or story board follows a basic organization, but all links may not be present or linked correctly.

Information on the concept map or story board is random and not well organized or properly linked.

Design

Use of font, color and style enhances the type of concept map or story board created. Effectively uses graphics where appropriate.

Use of font, color and style is appropriate for the type of concept map or story board created. Uses graphics where appropriate.

Use of font, color and style does not distract from the concept map or story board created. Uses some graphics.

Use of font, color and style distracts from the information being presented or is not appropriate for the design.

Grammar & Usage

Story board or web has no misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Story board or web has few misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Story board or web has several misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

Concept map or story board has many misspellings and/or grammatical errors.