Friday, October 9, 2015

How to Assess IB Lab Reports

Homework (Due Tuesday):  Choose one of your peers and assess their draft lab report.  You will be assessing the nine aspects listed below.  It is not enough just to mark it as complete, partial or not at all.  Be descriptive with your feedback, and specifically outline what is missing from partial aspects, and where you marked any aspects as complete justify those marks with an explanation of what the student did to complete them satisfactorily.  Also, give general feedback on the formatting of the lab report and overall strengths and areas for improvement in each of the three criteria.  This is an intense assessment format, so please take your peer reviewing very seriously.

For a detailed description of the the nine aspects below you must click here.

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Criteria


Aspects
Complete /2
Partial /1
Not at all /0
Mark

Defines the problem and selects variables




Planning
Controls variables





Develops a method for collection of data




Data Collection
Recording raw data




and
Processing raw data




Processing
Presenting processed data




Discussion,
Discussing and reviewing




Evaluation and
Evaluating procedure/suggested improvements




Conclusion
Concluding
















Teacher’s notes and comments on this item of work:

Criteria
Strengths
Weaknesses/ For improvement
Notes
Planning






Data collection and processing






Discussion, evaluation and conclusion














2 comments:

  1. One thing you will notice is that a student cannot achieve a complete mark for "presenting processed data" if the only graph included is the macroinvertebrate bar graph (because I suggested that format).

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