Comps Rubric
General Comps
APA
Theory
More Theory
100

The number of life events you should evaluate in your paper. 

What is five?

100

Theorist name of comps interviewing protocol used. 

Who is McAdams?

100

The formatting for the label "references" 

What is bold and centered? 

100

Theorist who developed idea of "emerging adulthood"

Who is Arnett?

100

Theory of 8 psychosocial stages. 

What is Erikson's psychosocial theory?

200

The page limit for your comps paper. 

What is 20 (not including title page, table of contents, or references)?

200

Number of faculty reading each comps paper. 

What is two?

200

The meaning of DOI. 

What is digital object identifier?

200

Theory of how race, culture, and gender can influence one's personality and participating counseling styles.

What is Helm’s Model of White Racial Identity?

200

Theoretical perspective that when we recognize that we don’t have all the time in the world and we see our priorities most clearly.

What is Carstensen’s Socioemotional Selectivity Theory?

300

The 5 components on which your comps paper will be graded. 

What is identify significant life events, application of theory, compare/contrast, grammar/writing, referencing/APA?

300

Who to direct questions about comps during winter term.

Who is Professor Shovali? (or another Human Development professor)

300

Size of margins according to APA style. 

What is 1 inch?

300

Theory with a focus on what makes marriages work.

What is Gottman's Sound Relationship House Theory?

300

Theory with focus on "self concept" in past, present, and future. 

What is Markus & Nurius's Theory of Possible Selves?

400

How to know a life event is considered significant

What is when the life event impacts one's course of life development over MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENTAL PERIODS. 

400

Score on paper required to pass comps.

What is 69.5%?

400

The meaning of reference list and in-text citation agreement. 

What is when all references cited in text should be found in the reference list and all references cited in the reference list should be found in text?

400

Developed idea that higher education is required to develop human talent and potentials. 

Who is Chickering & Reisser (Theory of College Student Development)?

400

Theory about stress as a two-way process involving the production of stressors by the environment and the response of an individual subjected to stressors.

What is Lazarus & Folkman’s Stress and Coping Process Theory?

500

The key to an excellent paper in terms of theory application in explaining a life event. 

What is weaving together the the life event and theory (or applying theory to explain the life event)?

500

When students will receive their graded comps papers. 

When is before spring break?

500

Length of "running head"

What is 50 characters including spaces?

500

Theory of reducing efforts in one area to focus efforts in another area.

What is Baltes' selective optimization with compensation?

500

Introduced the idea that humans are active, autonomous, and motivated to fulfill goals or needs. 

Who is Maslow? (Theory of Human Motivation)