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Lab Report Writing Rubric

This is the rubric used to score the science lab report writings in this class. The final grade is based on your lab report writing. Remember, the lab report assignment counts towards your overall classwork grade which is 35% of your final grade.

Rubric Code: TC53AA

By lsabatino

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Subject: Science

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Lab Report
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Emerging 2 pts	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory 1 pts
Purpose	Excellent Purpose of the conducting the lab was stated. A discussion of how the lab ties into the current chapter concepts, as well as how the concept applies to real-life were included. Provided the minimum of 2-4 sentences.	Good Purpose of the conducting the lab was stated. A discussion of how the lab ties into the current chapter concepts, as well as how the concept applies to real-life were included. One of three statements were not evident.	Emerging Purpose of the conducting the lab was stated. A discussion of how the lab ties into the current chapter concepts, as well as how the concept applies to real-life were included. Two of the three statements were not evident. Overall, writing needs work.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Hypothesis	Excellent Is stated as an if...then ... statement. Is directly related to the problem.	Good Is stated in if...then... format but needs to relate to the problem more directly.	Emerging Needs to be stated as if...then... statement.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Materials list	Excellent List is complete for an accurate replication of the experiment. List includes quantitative measurements using the metric system.	Good List is complete but quantities not always there or missing completely.	Emerging Listed but not complete. Quantities missing or are rarely there or the metric system isn't used for data collection.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Procedures	Excellent Written as though giving directions. Written in complete sentences.<BR> Are complete with no steps missing.	Good Logical sequence but missing steps. Some incomplete sentences. Some quantitative measurements are included.	Emerging Needs more steps for the lab to be reliable.<BR> Needs complete sentences. Quantitative measurements are not included.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Test Results/Data	Excellent An accurate data chart<BR> and graph is present. The data graph is properly set up and is supported by the data in the chart. Includes relevant qualitative data and other observations.	Good Data chart needs to be properly labeled to make sense of the data and /or graph needs to be properly labeled to make better sense of the results.	Emerging Data missing from the data chart and or graph.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Observations	Excellent Stated a minimum of 4-5 qualitative observations about the experiment, no interpretations were made. Included the minimum of 4-5 sentences.	Good Stated 3 qualitative observations about the experiment, no interpretations were made. Included only 3 sentences.	Emerging Stated 2 qualitative observations about the experiment, some interpretations were made. Included only 2 sentences. Overall, writing needs work.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Conclusion	Excellent Conclusion sums up the data and analyzes how the test procedures could have been improved and how the data relates to the hypothesis by citing the data from the data tables.	Good Some questions about the data are not discussed or have incomplete answers conclusions.	Emerging Hypothesis needs to be<BR> restated and data used to describe how it is or is not supported needs more analysis.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory This part of the report is missing or doesn't provide enough learning evidence.
Writing Guidelines	Excellent Well written, neatly organized & clearly formatted (or written). Scientific vocabulary present & used correctly. No spelling or grammatical errors. Scientific writing style is evident.	Good Minor problems exist with writing style, organization, formatting, scientific vocabulary or spelling/grammar.	Emerging Numerous problems exist with writing style, organization, formatting, scientific vocabulary or spelling/grammar.	Incomplete or Unsatisfactory Major problems exist with writing style, organization, formatting, scientific vocabulary or spelling/grammar, which distracts reader to understand overall content of the lab report.

Keywords:

Observation, Research, Problem, Hypothesis, Procedure, independent variable, dependent variable, constants, control, data table, graph, results statement, conclusion

Subjects:

Science

Types:

Writing

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