Criterion A: Knowing and understanding Maximum: 8 At the end of year 5, students should be able to: explain scientific knowledge apply scientific knowledge and understanding to solve problems set in familiar and unfamiliar situations analyse and evaluate information to make scientifically supported judgments. Achievement Task-Specific Language Level descriptor level The student does not reach a standard … 0 identified by any of the descriptors below. The student is able to: 1-2 means you defined each word state scientific knowledge independently. You cited data, but 1–2 how it supported interpret information to make didn’t talk about what you are concluding and judgments. explaining. The student is able to: 3-4 means that you defined each outline scientific knowledge vocab in a sensible order, but did not 3–4 interconnect it. You do not make interpret information to make explicit connections with your data scientifically supported judgments. to support your conclusion. The student is able to: 5-6 means you just describe the describe scientific knowledge different vocab, not weaving them 5–6 analyse information to make together to construct an explanation scientifically supported judgments. of what occurred. You used each vocab. word to The student is able to: explain how natural selection was explain scientific knowledge applied and modeled in this lab. You analyse and use your DATA analyse and evaluate information to 7–8 (from the lab) to your support make scientifically supported explanation, including an judgments. EVALUATION of how well the data was collected.
Criterion A: Knowing and understanding Maximum: 8 At the end of year 5, students should be able to: explain scientific knowledge apply scientific knowledge and understanding to solve problems set in familiar and unfamiliar situations analyse and evaluate information to make scientifically supported judgments. Achievement level Level descriptor Task-Specific Language 0 The student does not reach a standard identified by any of the descriptors below. … 1–2 The student is able to: state scientific knowledge interpret information to make judgments. 1-2 means you defined each word independently. You cited data, but didn’t talk about how it supported what you are concluding and explaining. 3–4 The student is able to: outline scientific knowledge interpret information to make scientifically supported judgments. 3-4 means that you defined each vocab in a sensible order, but did not interconnect it. You do not make explicit connections with your data to support your conclusion. 5–6 The student is able to: describe scientific knowledge analyse information to make scientifically supported judgments. 5-6 means you just describe the different vocab, not weaving them together to construct an explanation of what occurred. 7–8 The student is able to: explain scientific knowledge analyse and evaluate information to make scientifically supported judgments. You used each vocab. word to explain how natural selection was applied and modeled in this lab. You analyse and use your DATA (from the lab) to support your explanation, including an EVALUATION of how well the data was collected.
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