Brau, Valerie / Rubrics--note taking

		Note Taking
Element		Level of Quality
Element	4	3	2	1
Main ideas	The notes con-	The notes briefly	Some informa-	There is little rel-
	cisely give a	record most main	tion is missing	evant information
	complete record	ideas and general	from the notes or	extracted in the
	of all main ideas	concepts.	the notes include	notes or there are
	and general con-		most main ideas	few notes.
	cepts.		but include
			unnecessary
			details.
Structure	The notes effi-	The notes include	The notes do	The notes are
	ciently summa-	underlining,	not distinguish	disorganized and
	rize and analyze	capitalization,	correctly between	hard to read to be
	the completely	highlighting,	main ideas or	helpful as a study
	recorded infor-	symbolism, or	show a lack of	or memory aid.
	mation by using	arrows linking	organization.
	techniques listed	ideas and clarify-
	in Level 3.	ing relationships
		between ideas.

Last Modified on October 5, 2009