PH 211: Data and Meaning .......Name:____________

CATEGORY

EXEMPLARY

ACCOMPLISHED

DEVELOPING

EMERGENT

Quality of work

Excellent effort that successfully communicates all the relevant features of the experiment in a professional looking manner

Good effort that is facilitates the reader's understanding of the data with no substantive grammatical or presentation errors

Effort apparent with only modest errors in grammar or inconsistencies in presentation, handwritten

Shows little effort, small and hard to see plots, ineffective communication due to handwriting or confused grammar

Data Characteristics

.... AND shows creative or innovative thinking about presentation.

All data characteristics are clearly labeled and easy to connect with features of the histogram

All data characteristics presented though not clearly tied to features of the histogram or potentially missing

Incomplete data characteristics and/or small and hard to interpret histogram, more tidiness needed

Determination of 1 sigma points

Clear understanding and communication of both estimating and calculating the standard deviation and what it indicates about the variability

Clear understanding and communication of estimating the standard deviation. Some sense of what it indicates about the data.

Good apparent understanding of how to estimate(by method taught in lab) the standard deviation of a data set.

Apparent misunderstanding of the concept, correlation with the data unclear, written description hard to follow

Assessment Activity


completed and reviewed as indicated by comments or corrections

completed


Analysis Activity



Uses tools developed in this lab with no errors to interpret the data. Considers additional data which would improve clarity of results.

Uses tools developed in this lab, with minor errors, to interpret the data. Places results in reasonable context

Uses tools developed in this lab, with some errors or inconsistencies, to interpret the data

Analyzes data using tools not directly related to those explored in this lab

Physics Lab Rubric