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Journal Club Critique Written Qualifying Exam For Evaluating Critiques in Journal Club Rubric Code: GX366A3 By richdey Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Medical Type: Writing Grade Levels: Graduate

Written Exam in Neuroscience
	Pass 10 pts	Fail 0 pts
Hypothesis	Pass Hypothesis clearly explained. Impact and significance described.	Fail Hypothesis and significance not adequately explained
Specific Aims	Pass Adequacy of Specific Aims to address the hypothesis is clearly described. Experimental design are aligned with Aims.	Fail Assessment of specific aims and experimental design is incomplete or fails to describe how the experimental design supports the specific aims
Data and Interpretation	Pass Critique describes how the data is interpreted, the accuracy of the interpretation, and discusses the significance of the controls	Fail The answer does not clearly describe the adequacy of the data interpretation. Explanation of controls inadequacy or not addressed.
Conclusions	Pass Describes how conclusions and implications are correctly or incorrectly explained in the paper	Fail Fails to adequately assess the quality of the conclusions and implication stated by the authors
Future Experiments	Pass Gives good suggestions for future experiments	Fail Future experiments suggested are not logical extensions of the paper or do not make scientific sense.