I mean, it’s a rambling response totally divorced from the context of the field she’s supposed to be studying, where she basically copied down her pastor’s word salad on the topic, so I wouldn’t qualify her response as anything like being thoughtful. The whole thing is a series of repetitive tangents that just abruptly end with her fundie non sequitur about how things would be better and problems would decrease if everyone just believed the same religious doctrine she does, a claim she makes with zero support. In light of this, I would struggle to call it clearly written. And it’s only 629 words, which was an automatic 10 point drop.
So, even if I’m feeling charitable and say that it shows a clear tie-in to the article and merits being called a thoughtful reaction, she’s still sitting at a 10/25 as soon as you dock 10 points for her inability to use a word count function in her word processor and the 5 points for being so terribly structured and written that I feel bad for having read it.
And if I were to say I feel even more charitable, and credit her with crushing all 3 criteria given in the assignment and earning full marks on the merits of her paper, she still has a 15/25, aka a failing grade, as soon as the professor sees she didn’t hit the word count.
axexrx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The assignment was to respond in a way that showed she read it. She made 2 drive-by references to the paper before simply rejecting it out of hand and the talking about religion. I wouldnt really consider that doing the assignment at all. She might have well wrote a paper about gender roles in middle earth.
Also, when reading that rubric, we have to remember this was a developmental psychology class. (which is more on the stats and hard science side of the discipline) A ‘clear tie in to the article’ is going to be discussing the psychological aspects and effects of gender roles and related bullying, and (possibly) its normatizing effects. Not a tie in to gender roles and bullying itself.
And when the rubric asks for a “thoughtful reaction or response to the article, rather than a summary” its not asking for a surface level personal emotional / ideals reaction. Again, it is asking for an analysis of the psychology, and a reaction / response to how that compares to other psychological theories and concepts youve learned (one of which the Bible is not… maybe if this were a phil class)
She could have rejected the concepts In the paper if she wanted, but done it citing psychology papers and theories. Im sure there are plenty of papers about successful gender conformity leading to increased satisfaction -males being happier when seen as more masculine by peers, bullying as a successful negative stimuli to more effectively train those behaviors which when sucessfully exhibited lead to that gender satisfaction, concepts of identity reinforcement through conformity, etc.
Again, ‘clearly written’ for a developmental psychology class means a lot more than sentence structure. Its going to involve making logical assertions and citing scientific or at least historical psychological texts, and doing so in a concise manner.
Personally, I think her paper should have gotten eitther somewhere between a 3-10/25 (1-3/10, 1-3/10, 2/5 for writing) (again hard to gauge exactly how far off the mark she was without knowing the article, or the level of rigor / leniency of the class
or, been returned ungraded as incomplete, simply stating it failed to address subject matter.