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Identifies and explains issues
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Clearly identifies and summaries main issues and successfully explains why/ how they are problems or questions; identifies embedded or implicit issues addressing their relationships to each other
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Successfully identifies and summarizes the main issues, but does not explain why/ how they are problems or create questions
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Identifies main issues but does not summarize or explain them clearly or sufficiently
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Fails to identify, summarize, or explain the main problem or question; represents the issues inaccurately or inappropriately
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Recognizes stakeholders and contexts (i.e. cultural/ social, educational, political, economic, ethical, personal experience)
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Correctly identifies all the empirical and theoretical contexts relevant to all the main stakeholders; also finds minor stakeholders and contexts and shows the tension or conflicts of interest among them
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Correctly identifies all the empirical and theoretical contexts relevant to all the main stakeholders
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Shows some general understanding of the influences of empirical and theoretical contexts on stakeholders, but does not identify any specific ones relevant to situation
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Unable to identify and explain any empirical or theoretical contexts for the issues; presents problems as having no connections to other conditions or contexts
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Frames personal responses and acknowledges other perspectives
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Formulates a clear and precise personal point of view and acknowledges objections and rival positions and provides convincing replies to these
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Formulates a clear and precise personal point of view and seriously discusses its weaknesses as well as its strengths
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Formulates a vague and indecisive point of view; or anticipates minor but not major objections to his/her point of view; or considers weak but not strong alternative positions
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Fails to formulate and clearly express own point of view, or fails to anticipate objections to his/her point of view, or fails to consider other perspectives and positions
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Evaluates evidence
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Identifies and rigorously evaluates all important evidence offered; provides new data or information for consideration
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Identifies all important evidence and rigorously evaluates it
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Successfully identifies data and information but fails to thoroughly evaluate its credibility
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Fails to identify data and information
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Evaluates implications, conclusions and consequences
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Identifies and thoroughly discusses implications, conclusions, and consequences, considering all relevant assumptions, contexts, data, and evidence
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Identifies and briefly discusses implications, conclusions, and consequences considering most but not all the relevant assumptions, contexts, data, and evidence
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Suggests some implications, conclusions, and consequences, but without clear reference to context, assumptions, data, and evidence
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Fails to identify implications, conclusions, and consequences of the issue, or the key relationships between the other elements of the problem, such as context, assumptions, or data and evidence
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