Natural SciencesNatural Sciences Each General Education category is grounded in a set of learning outcomes. For the full set of learning outcomes for Natural Sciences courses see: This rubric is designed as a tool to assess activities at student gains in the follow learning outcome(s) for the General Education Category: At the completion of this course, students will be able to: Solve complex problems requiring the application of several scientific concepts. Criterion Descriptions of levels of student performance for review of Advanced Proficient Beginning Unacceptable student work The Approach The approach to the problem: The approach to the problem: The approach to the problem: The approach to the problem: Define/Set up the concise, systematic, complete organized but lacks clarity or present, inefficient, not defined approach a justified, detailed intentional structure, is viable, ineffective not include a prediction prediction/estimate/hypothesis a justified, broad an obvious or trivial not use language that is fluent use of discipline prediction/estimate/hypothesis appropriate to the discipline appropriate language (including suitable use of discipline or guess symbolic, algebraic etc.) appropriate language (including presented with awkward an analysis of symbolic, algebraic etc.) and imprecise use of discipline issues/factors/context that contribute a search for or knowledge of appropriate language to the complexity of the problem issues/factors/context that contribute (including symbolic, algebraic the constraints (limits) to the complexity of the problem etc.) that may affect how the problem may some of the constraints a consideration of be solved (limits) that may affect how the issues/factors/context that reflects the principles and problem may be solved contribute to the complexity of methods of the course discipline few mistakes in presenting the the problem that is narrow, principles and methods of the course and focused on the intuitively discipline obvious not identify the constraints (limits) that may affect how the problem may be solved a inconsistent or inappropriate use of the principles and methods of the course discipline
Natural SciencesNatural Sciences Each General Education category is grounded in a set of learning outcomes. For the full set of learning outcomes for Natural Sciences courses see: This rubric is designed as a tool to assess activities at student gains in the follow learning outcome(s) for the General Education Category: At the completion of this course, students will be able to: Solve complex problems requiring the application of several scientific concepts. Criterion for review of student work Descriptions of levels of student performance Advanced Proficient Beginning Unacceptable The Approach Define/Set up the approach The approach to the problem: concise, systematic, complete a justified, detailed prediction/estimate/hypothesis fluent use of discipline appropriate language (including symbolic, algebraic etc.) an analysis of issues/factors/context that contribute to the complexity of the problem the constraints (limits) that may affect how the problem may be solved reflects the principles and methods of the course discipline The approach to the problem: organized but lacks clarity or intentional structure, is viable, a justified, broad prediction/estimate/hypothesis suitable use of discipline appropriate language (including symbolic, algebraic etc.) a search for or knowledge of issues/factors/context that contribute to the complexity of the problem some of the constraints (limits) that may affect how the problem may be solved few mistakes in presenting the principles and methods of the course discipline The approach to the problem: present, inefficient, ineffective an obvious or trivial or guess presented with awkward and imprecise use of discipline appropriate language (including symbolic, algebraic etc.) a consideration of issues/factors/context that contribute to the complexity of the problem that is narrow, and focused on the intuitively obvious not identify the constraints (limits) that may affect how the problem may be solved a inconsistent or inappropriate use of the principles and methods of the course discipline The approach to the problem: not defined not include a prediction not use language that is appropriate to the discipline
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