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The Scientific Process

The Scientific Process of Investigating Matter

Scoring rubric used to asses child's understanding of the scientific process

Rubric Code: M2C36C

By sclewis

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Subject: Science

Type: (Other)

Grade Levels: (none)

Scientific process
	Pass Skills- grade 5 TEKS Standard Process (N/A)	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts
Follow Safety Procedures	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standard 112.7(b) (1) (A) Demonstrate safe practices during field and laboratory investigations	Poor Did not attempt to demonstrate safe practices during field and laboratory investigations.	Fair Demonstrated some safe practices during field and laboratory investigations.	Good Demonstrated all safe practices during field and laboratory investigations.
Gather information	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standard 112.7(b)(2) (B) collect information by observing and measuring	Poor Did not attempt to collect information by observing and measuring.	Fair Information gathered by observing and measuring is not complete or is incorrect.	Good Information gathered by observing and measuring is complete and accurate.
Analyze and Interpret	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standards 112.7(b)(2) (C) analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence	Poor Did not attempt to analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence	Fair Analysis and interpretation of information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence is not complete.	Good Analysis and interpretation of information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence is complete.
Communicate	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standard 112.7(b)(2)(D) communicate valid conclusions	Poor Did not attempt to communicate valid conclusions.	Fair Poor communication of conclusions, or poor conclusion.	Good Clearly communicated valid conclusions.
Analyze data	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standard 4.1: Interpret pictures, simple bar graphs, and/or tables. Process Standard 4.2: Recognize and describe pattersn, then make predictions based on patterns.	Poor Did not attempt to analyze data gathered.	Fair Data gathered about hypothesis is not complete and/or is not relevant to subject knowledge.	Good Data gathered about hypothesis is complete and relevant to subject knowledge.
Construct graphs	Pass Skills- grade 5 Process Standard 112.7(b) (2) (E) construct simple graphs to organize, examine, and evaluate information.	Poor Did not attempt to construct graph.	Fair Graph constructed incorrectly or data not organized correctly.	Good Constructed graph that correctly organized information and used it to examine and evaluate information.