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Lab Report

This will assist in the qualitative grading of laboratory reports

Rubric Code: NBWAA3

By ireardon

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Subject: Biology

Type: Project

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Lab Report Enter rubric description
	Poor 4 pts	Fair 6 pts	good 8 pts	excellent 10 pts
Introduction	Poor Two or less of the "excellent" conditions met.	Fair Three of the "excellent" conditions met.	good Four of the five "excellent" conditions met.	excellent 1. Clearly defined purpose or hypothesis. 2. Background information uses sources. 3. Sources cited using the Name-Year format. 4. Good use of sentence structure. 5. Defines intended outcomes of the lab.
Methods	Poor Two or less of the "excellent" conditions met.	Fair Three of the "excellent" conditions met.	good Four of the five "excellent" conditions met.	excellent 1. Methodology described properly without too many unnecessary details. 2. Past tense used throughout. 3. No use of "we" and "I". 4. Id experimental and control groups appropriately in body of text. 5. Written in paragraph form. Materials incorporated in text.
Results	Poor Two or less of the "excellent" conditions met.	Fair Three of the "excellent" conditions met.	good Four of the five "excellent" conditions met..	excellent 1. Data is well labeled and presented in a logical manner (data table if necessary). 2. The measurements have units. 3. Tables and graphs are properly labeled and titled. 4. Conclusions for each table and graph are stated in words with a reference to the figure at end of sentences in parenthesis. 5. Past tense used throughout.
Discussion	Poor Two or less of the "excellent" conditions met.	Fair Three of the "excellent" conditions met.	good Four of the five "excellent" conditions met.	excellent 1. Conclusions are supported by the data and reference the purpose/ hypothesis of the lab. 2. Data was analyzed and explanations were given to what was observed. 3. Contradictions and errors were discussed and possible reasons. 4. Format as outlined in pg. 104 Section 6.9 of Hoffman (2013) followed. 5. Last paragraph summarizes the study and new experiments/ques-tions are suggested.
Literature Cited	Poor Two or less of the "excellent" conditions met.	Fair Three of the four "excellent conditions" met.	good .	excellent 1. Name-Year system of citations followed. Examples are shown on pgs. 12-16 and pg.144 of Hoffmann, 2013. 2. In the text, the Name-Year system of citation was used at the end of the sentence or paragraph. 3. All sources were referenced at least once in the text. 4. Lab report has a minimum of 3 references with at least 1 being a primary source.

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