5/11/2017 Assignments: Marking http://sb5.athabascau.ca/course/admn404v12.nsf/MoodleCourse/25BCFF7730CE74C987257A700063A6AE 1/2 About ADMN 404 Assignments: Marking Your assignments will take the form of written reports. As you know, the marking of written work can be very subjective. This is unavoidable. However, in an effort to make the marking of your assignments as objective as possible, a rubric will be used to grade them. A rubric is kind of like a marking key (learn more). However, instead of stating the specific content that’s desired, it describes the characteristics of good and bad answers. So before you even begin to work on your assignments, you should familiarize yourself with the ADMN 404 assignment rubric. (38 KB) For both pedagogical and evaluative purposes, your assignments must be organized into the predetermined sections described in the marking rubric. In each section, the maximum score you can get is 20. In addition, you can score as high as 20 for presentation. That said, your mark on the assignment is not the simple sum of these scores. Instead, each section is weighted, and this weighting changes from one assignment to the next. Moreover, because you will not learn how to complete some sections of the report until later in the course, some sections are not required in Assignments 1 and 2. It is extremely important that you consider the weighting of each section when you prepare your assignments. You should let the weighting dictate the amount of space you devote to each section. It will always be possible to say much, much more in each section, so you must decide just how much you are going to say. If you say more, you may get a higher grade on that section. However, if that section is weighted a lot less than other sections in which you could say more, you are probably better off to use the space for sections with a higher weighting. The table below contains the weighting for each section in each assignment. Note as well the word limits for each assignment. This limit does not include the title page or exhibits (up to 10 pages), but it does include any tables within the body of the report. Assignments that exceed the specified limits will be returned without grading. If the assignment still exceeds the word limit on the second submission, a grade of zero will be assigned. Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Executive Summary 5% 5% 5% Introduction & Company Overview 5% 5% 5% Mandate 20% 10% 10% External Analysis 30% 20% 15% Internal Analysis 30% 20% 15% Strategic Options N/A 30% 20% Recommendation/Implementation N/A N/A 20% Presentation 10% 10% 10%5/11/2017 Assignments: Marking http://sb5.athabascau.ca/course/admn404v12.nsf/MoodleCourse/25BCFF7730CE74C987257A700063A6AE 2/2 Maximum Words 3,000 4,000 5,000 Weight (% of final grade) 14% 23% 50% © Athabasca University, 2014