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.