Distinguished - Thoroughly describes the school health education setting and provides great detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages and disadvantages.

Proficient - Describes the school health education setting and provides information on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Partially describes the school health education setting and provides information on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe the school health education setting; however, the description may not include one or more of the following: the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting, and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The description of the school health education setting is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly describes the public health education setting and provides great detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages.

Proficient - Describes the public health education setting and provides detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Partially describes the public health education setting and provides limited detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe the public health education setting, but does not provide detail on one or more of the following: the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting.

Non-Performance - The description of the public health education setting is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly describes the worksite health education setting and provides great detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages.

Proficient - Describes the worksite health education setting and provides information on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Partially describes the worksite health education setting and provides information on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe the worksite health education setting; however, does not provide information on one or more of the following: the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting, and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The description of the worksite health education setting is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly describes the health care education setting and provides great detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages.

Proficient - Describes the healthcare education setting and provides detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Minor details are missing.

Basic - Partially describes the health care education setting and provides limited detail on the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe the health care education setting; however, does not provide information on one of more of the following: the goals, appropriateness, needs, daily activities, responsibilities, advantages, and disadvantages of this setting, and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The description of the health care education setting is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Thoroughly describes the non-traditional settings and potential opportunities for professionals in these non-traditional settings.

Proficient - Describes nontraditional settings and potential opportunities for professionals. Minor details may be missing.

Basic - Partially describes nontraditional settings and potential opportunities for professionals. Relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Attempts to describe nontraditional settings and potential opportunities available for the professionals in this field; however, potential opportunities are not addressed and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The description of nontraditional settings and potential opportunities for professionals is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Clearly and comprehensively explains the issue to be considered, delivering all relevant information necessary for a full understanding.

Proficient - Clearly explains the issue to be considered, delivering enough relevant information for an adequate understanding.

Basic - Briefly explains the issue to be considered, delivering minimal information for a basic understanding.

Below Expectations - Briefly explains the issue to be considered, but may not deliver additional information necessary for a basic understanding.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions. 

Distinguished - Distinguishes probable implications of the text for contexts, perspectives, or issues outside the assigned task or beyond the author's explicit message.

Proficient - Uses the text and/or specific knowledge of the author’s context to draw more intricate inferences about the author’s message and approach.

Basic - Considers how textual features (e.g., sentence and paragraph structure or tone) contribute to the author’s message. Draws fundamental inferences about context and rationale of text.

Below Expectations - Inadequately captures vocabulary but makes an effort to paraphrase or summarize the information the text communicates.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - The length of the paper is equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Proficient - The length of the paper is nearly equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Basic - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least three quarters of the required number of correctly formatted pages.

Below Expectations - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least one half of the required number of correctly formatted pages.   

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand.

Proficient - Displays comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains only a few minor errors and is mostly easy to understand.

Basic - Displays basic comprehension of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains a few errors which may slightly distract the reader.

Below Expectations - Fails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which distract the reader.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Uses more than the required number of scholarly sources, providing compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Proficient - Uses the required number of scholarly sources to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Basic - Uses less than the required number of sources to support ideas. Some sources may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are used within the body of the assignment. Citations may not be formatted correctly.

Below Expectations - Uses an inadequate number of sources that provide little or no support for ideas. Sources used may not be scholarly. Most sources on the reference page are not used within the body of the assignment. Citations are not formatted correctly.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Accurately uses APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title page, and reference page.

Proficient - Exhibits APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout contains a few minor errors. 

Basic - Exhibits limited knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout does not meet all APA requirements. 

Below Expectations - Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA formatting. There are frequent errors, making the layout difficult to distinguish as APA.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.