Rubric for Final Museum Display
 

Creativity:
4  Contains many unique, insightful, and detailed ideas.
3  Contains several unique, insightful, and detailed ideas.
2  Contains few unique, insightful, and detailed ideas.
1  Contains no unique, insightful and detailed ideas.

Effective use of several modalities:
4  Identifies and uses 3 or more modalities.
3  Identifies and uses 2 modalities.
2  Identifies and uses only 1 modality.
1  Has no clear understanding of different modalities.

Effective organization:
4  Has a consistent organization or pattern of items.
3  Has a fairly consistent organization or pattern of items.
2  Items do not follow a logical pattern or organizational structure.
1  Items are randomly arranged and poorly organized.

Effective balance:
4  Items are well distributed across the entire display, creating a balance of weight and visual attraction.
3  Items are mostly distributed across the entire display.
2  Items are somewhat distributed across the entire display.
1  Items are not well distributed.  Items are “clumped” in a few areas, creating no balance of weight and visual attraction.

Neatness:
4  Items are carefully and neatly arranged with no visually noticeable mistakes of layout.
3  Items are mostly carefully and neatly arranged with few visually noticeable mistakes of layout.
2  Items are somewhat carefully and neatly arranged with several visually noticeable mistakes of layout.
1  Items are not carefully and neatly arranged with many visually noticeable mistakes of layout.

Coverage of topic:
4  Display effectively represents the group topic, providing a large amount of useful information and exploring many
   avenues of the topic.
3  Display mostly represents the group topic, providing some useful information and exploring more than one avenue of
   the topic.
2  Display somewhat represents the group topic, providing a little useful information.
1  Display does not represent the group topic, providing no useful information.
 


Submitted By St. Norbert College Ocean Voyagers Program