Worship Planning in the Lutheran Church

Grades and Assessment Criteria

Grades are based on a 1000-point system. Note that your group project is worth 40% of your grade. You may check on your grade by clicking on the Tools button to the left and then selecting Check Grade.

Module	Discussion/Assignments/Project	Points Available
1	Introductions Discussion	10
2	Planning Process Discussion	15
3	The Church Year Discussion	15
3	Church Year Assignment	50
4	Furnishings Discussion	15
5	Hymns Discussion	25
5	Hymn Service Individual Project	150
6	Liturgy (Music and Roles) Discussion	15
7	Liturgy (Baptism and Holy Communion) Discussion	15
7	Liturgy Assignment	50
8	Liturgy (Lent and Easter, Other Services) Discussion	15
9	The Arts (Anthems, Drama, Instruments, Visuals) Discussion	15
9	Special Service Individual Project	150
10	Group Project	400
11	Farewells	10
	Worship Attendance (8 services, 5 points per service)	40
	Total	1000

Group Grading

Grades for your group project will be broken down as follows:

Item	Points Available
Bulletin	100
Individual Response E-mails (10 at 10 points each)	100
Roles Discussion	20
Congregation Discussion	20
Visioning Discussion	30
Planning Discussion	60
Reviewing Discussion	40
Evaluation Discussion	40
Total	400

The following scale will be used to calculate letter grades:
A = 900 - 1000
B = 800 - 899
C = 700 - 799
D = 600 - 699
F = Below 599

Rubric for Discussions

You may use this rubric as a guide to your discussion participation.

Objectives	90-100%	80-89%	70-79%	60-69%	0-59%
Participation in learning community	Provides comments and new information in a regular and equitable manner. Interacts with a variety of participants.	Provides comments and some information in a fairly regular manner. Interacts with a few selected participants.	Sporadically provides comments and some new information. Interacts with only one participant.	Provides minimal comments and information to other participants.	No post made
Evidence of higher level thinking	Applies higher level thinking including application, analysis, synthesis, or evaluation	Some higher level thinking present	Beginnings of higher level thinking	Ideas are not well-developed and no evidence of higher level thinking	No post made
Contributions add relevant and important content to the discussion	Message revealed a solid understanding of the topic as evidenced by thoughtful responses and questions.	Message revealed an adequate understanding of the topic as evidenced by posts indicating superficial knowledge.	Message revealed a limited understanding of the topic that was limited to information that could be derived from prior posts.	Message was a "one liner" or irrelevant to the discussion.	No post made

Rubric for Service Bulletins

You will produce several service bulletins during this course. This rubric will be the basis for your grade.

Objectives	90-100%	80-89%	70-79%	60-69%
Theme of day carried throughout service	Excellent development and preparation is evident	Good development; preparation is evident	Lacking in either development or preparation	Little or no development; little or no preparation is evident
Seasonally appropriate elements added/removed	Excellent job integrating seasonal elements	Missed adding/deleting one seasonal element	Missed adding/deleting several seasonal elements	Disregarded seasonal elements
Music selection appropriate for service	Theme-based music was very well chosen and integrated into theme	Music was applied appropriately to theme	Music used but not clearly applied to theme	No music used
“Announcements” show knowledge of material and stated briefly	Brief and complete explanation of selected elements	Wordy but complete explanation of selected elements	Wordy and incomplete explanation of selected elements	Show lack of knowledge of elements

Rubric for Papers

Each paper will be graded by the following criteria. If you do not have the APA Manual, you may use this web site: http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm

	90-100%	80-89%	70-79%	60-69%
Quality of Information	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It includes several supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. No details and/or examples are given.	Information has little or nothing to do with the main topic.
Amount of information	All topics are addressed and all questions answered within the desired paper length.	All topics are addressed and most questions answered within the desired paper length.	All topics are addressed, and most questions answered but the paper is either too long or not long enough.	One or more topics were not addressed.
Mechanics	No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	A few grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.	Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Sources	All sources are accurately documented using APA format.	All sources are accurately documented, but a few are not in APA format.	All sources are accurately documented, but many are not in APA format.	Some sources are not accurately documented.