ACE 5 Use knowledge, historical perspectives, analysis, interpretation, critical evaluation, and the standards of evidence appropriate to the humanities to address problems and issues.
| Description | Exemplary 4 |
Acceptable 3 |
Developing 2 |
Deficient 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Analysis | Organizes, synthesizes, and discusses information to reveal patterns, limitations, and implications and supports these with appropriate standards of evidence. | Organizes and discusses information in ways that reveals patterns, limitations, and implications and provides adequate support for these. | Presents and organizes information and makes some reference to patterns, limitations, and implications but provides little support for these. | Presents information without organization, and provides inadequate support for any reference to patterns, limitations, or implications, the support is inadequate or absent. |
| Interpretation of Knowledge | Synthesizes detailed information from relevant sources and presents an argument or conclusion as a logical extrapolation. These relevant sources represent various points of view associated with the inquiry. | Presents adequate information from relevant sources and provides an argument or conclusion arising specifically from a relevant source. | Presents relevant but limited information from relevant sources with minimal awareness of the need for argument or conclusion. | Presents information from irrelevant sources representing limited approaches to an issue, and if a conclusion or argument is present, it is unsupported. |