locate a journal article related to Rigorous and Coherent Systems of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Academic Success( Standard 4 ).
Read the article carefully and reflect.
Write an article summary using the attached guidelines and rubric
Article Summary Guidelines and Grading Rubric
General Instructions
Use all library databases available to you locate a journal article on the posed topic to critique.
Reading and Thinking
Read the article slowly. Don’t criticize anything just yet. Try to really understand the
author’s logic rather than questioning it.
Mark key points and transitions as you read. Try to isolate at least one central point in
each paragraph.
Review introductory and closing sections closely. Think about how the author moves
from opening statements to conclusions via the body of the article.
Writing
Begin your written analysis with a blanket statement summarizing what the author does
in the article. Sometimes the author explicitly gives you his or her agenda in the
introduction and/or in the conclusion. You should be able to relay this in one or (maybe)
two sentences.
Summarize the key ideas used by the author in achieving his/her agenda. Look at the
parts of the article you have marked. Try to indicate how the author progresses from
idea to idea in the article.
List important evidence used to support key ideas in the article. Indicate why the author
finds this evidence convincing.
Reflection
How does the article impact your own teaching/leadership beliefs and practices?
Identify something about your teaching/leadership that is demonstrated in the article.
Identify something about your teaching/leadership that is different is demonstrated in the
article.
What lingering question(s) does the article raise for you?
Finalizing
Proofread your writing. Read it aloud. Try to use active verbs and concise modifiers.
Verify that your analysis would be helpful to someone who hadn’t read the article. Dont
assume that your reader can intuit what you mean by anything
