Possible RUBRIC This rubric addresses 21st Century skills (www .p21.org), National Science Education Standards and Massachusetts Frameworks for Scientific Inquiry. Critical Thinkers who: 1. identify and define problems 2. Gather and analyze information 3. Draw and apply conclusions Communicators who: 1. Write effectively 2. Speak effectively 3. Read purposefully Technology Users who: 1. connect technology to learning Section Advanced Proficient Needs Improvement Clear, succinct, title, Good Title, but Title not Title and Authors self-explanatory. needs some work understandable or not related to project Short clear, logical, Some parts missing. Cursory summary Abstract summary of paper/presentation. Problems identified Some steps missing Brief description. Introduction and clearly or not clearly explained. Good explained. hypothesis and explanation. Logical explanation Some steps missing Cursory description Methods of procedure or not clearly of method explained Results table, clearly Results table and No table for results. Results labeled with units. graph. One or two Graphs incorrectly Same with graph. labels or units drawn. missing. Concise and Gives valid Gives conclusion Discussion scientific analysis of conclusion and but no explanation results with explanation but or discussion of conclusion and little evaluation of errors. evaluation of validity of project. possible errors. Proper APA Minor errors in Incorrect format or Literature Cited and Acknowledgements formatting and APA formatting or no in-text citations citations. in-text citations.
Possible RUBRIC This rubric addresses 21st Century skills (www .p21.org), National Science Education Standards and Massachusetts Frameworks for Scientific Inquiry. Critical Thinkers who: 1. identify and define problems 2. Gather and analyze information 3. Draw and apply conclusions Communicators who: 1. Write effectively 2. Speak effectively 3. Read purposefully Technology Users who: 1. connect technology to learning Section Advanced Proficient Needs Improvement Title and Authors Clear, succinct, title, self-explanatory. Good Title, but needs some work Title not understandable or not related to project Abstract Short clear, logical, summary of paper/presentation. Some parts missing. Cursory summary Introduction Problems identified and clearly explained. Good hypothesis and explanation. Some steps missing or not clearly explained. Brief description. Methods Logical explanation of procedure Some steps missing or not clearly explained Cursory description of method Results Results table, clearly labeled with units. Same with graph. Results table and graph. One or two labels or units missing. No table for results. Graphs incorrectly drawn. Discussion Concise and scientific analysis of results with conclusion and evaluation of possible errors. Gives valid conclusion and explanation but little evaluation of validity of project. Gives conclusion but no explanation or discussion of errors. Literature Cited and Acknowledgements Proper APA formatting and citations. Minor errors in APA formatting or in-text citations. Incorrect format or no in-text citations
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