General Rubric for Biology Scientific Arguments (50 points) 0 1 2 3- Target Claim Intelligible Poorly written and not Clearly written Understandable Clearly written and understandable but not but not clearly understandable understandable written Accurate No alignment with the Aligns with some Aligns with most Aligns with the evidence evidence evidence evidence, but not all Relevant Does not answer the Answers the research research question question Is not stated Claim unclear Implicitly stated Explicitly stated Identifiable Addresses Does not explain how Inaccurately Accurately Accurately explains and closely the evidence explains how explains how justifies how closely the inferential connects to the claim closely the closely the evidence connects to the distance* evidence evidence claim connects to the connects to the claim but does *number of not justify factors can be part of this Evidence Empirical* No evidence from Some evidence Most evidence All evidence comes from observation or comes from comes from observation or experimentation observation or observation or experimentation; From experimentation experimentation reliable research; or reliable or reliable No opinions *does not research; mostly research; some apply to opinion or opinion or conceptual unreliable unreliable arguments evidence evidence expanding theory Statistical No statistical analysis Chooses Chooses Analysis is justified; analysis inappropriate appropriate tests considers assumptions tests but assumptions and chooses appropriate are tests misinterpreted or ignored Relevant No evidence is useful Some evidence is Most evidence is All evidence is useful and to and meaningful for useful and useful and meaningful for Claim supporting the claim meaningful for meaningful for supporting the supporting the supporting the claim Sufficient No evidence to support Weak or limited evidence to support Convincing amount of claim evidence to support
General Rubric for Biology Scientific Arguments (50 points) 0 1 2 3- Target Claim Intelligible Poorly written and not understandable Clearly written but not understandable Understandable but not clearly written Clearly written and understandable Accurate No alignment with the evidence Aligns with some evidence Aligns with most evidence, but not all Aligns with the evidence Relevant Does not answer the research question Answers the research question Identifiable Is not stated Claim unclear Implicitly stated Explicitly stated Addresses inferential distance* *number of factors can be part of this Does not explain how closely the evidence connects to the claim Inaccurately explains how closely the evidence connects to the Accurately explains how closely the evidence connects to the claim but does not justify Accurately explains and justifies how closely the evidence connects to the claim Evidence Empirical* *does not apply to conceptual arguments expanding theory No evidence from observation or experimentation Some evidence comes from observation or experimentation or reliable research; mostly opinion or unreliable evidence Most evidence comes from observation or experimentation or reliable research; some opinion or unreliable evidence All evidence comes from observation or experimentation; From reliable research; No opinions Statistical analysis No statistical analysis Chooses inappropriate tests Chooses appropriate tests but assumptions are misinterpreted or ignored Analysis is justified; considers assumptions and chooses appropriate tests Relevant to Claim No evidence is useful and meaningful for supporting the claim Some evidence is useful and meaningful for supporting the claim Most evidence is useful and meaningful for supporting the All evidence is useful and meaningful for supporting the Sufficient No evidence to support claim Weak or limited evidence to support Convincing amount of evidence to support
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