This journal is an opportunity to discuss the merits of the articles you selected from the list provided.
Your journal response needs to relate to the content in the course and to your personal and professional experiences, and specifically answer the following:
What topic or health question did you research, and why is it relevant to public health, nursing, or the health science professions? Give real-world examples to support your answer.
How can biostatistics help inform decision making around your topic? Support your answer with specific examples.
IHP 525 Journal Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The journal activities in this course are an ongoing, private conversation between you and the instructor. In each journal assignment, you will draft
responses to sections of Final Project Article Review. While a certain level of informality is permitted, proper grammar, spelling, and APA citations are required.
Your journal posts should reflect academic rigor.
A course journal is generally made up of many individual assignments. In this course, each assignment will be graded individually, but they will all be polished
and used to create one final document to be submitted in Module Eight as your Final Project Article Review.
Prompt: For each journal assignment, the following critical elements must be met:
● Fulfill all requirements in the individual prompt.
● Provide relevant application of course concepts.
● Support ideas and observations with examples from your own personal or professional situation.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Each journal assignment should be 1–2 paragraphs in length. Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point
Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.
Critical Elements
Prompt
Course Concepts
Personal or
Professional
Situation
Articulation of
Response
Exemplary (100%)
Meets ”Proficient” criteria and
references course materials
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
supports response with course
materials
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
further relates personal or
professional circumstances to
scholarly research
Proficient (90%)
Meets all elements outlined in
the prompt
Clearly relates course concepts
to the applicable journal prompt
Journal is free of errors in
organization and grammar, and
all sources correctly cited using
APA
Journal is mostly free of errors of
organization and grammar,
which are marginal and rarely
interrupt the flow, and most
sources are correctly cited using
APA
Logically supports ideas and
observations with examples
from personal or professional
circumstances or experiences
Needs Improvement (70%)
Meets only some of the
elements in the prompt
Relates course concepts to the
applicable journal prompt, but
response lacks clarity
Supports ideas and observations
with examples from personal or
professional circumstances or
experiences, but response lacks
logic
Journal contains errors of
organization and grammar, but
they are limited enough so that
submission can be understood
and APA usage is consistently
incorrect
Not Evident (0%)
Does not meet the elements in
the prompt
Does not relate course concepts
to the applicable journal prompt
Value
40
30
Does not support ideas and
observations with examples
from personal or professional
circumstances or experiences
25
Journal contains errors of
organization and grammar,
making the journal difficult to
understand and does not use
APA
5
Total
100%