Criteria SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

METHODOLOGY (MATERIALS & PROCEDURE)

DATA AND RESULTS

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS/ CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

STYLE (detailed calculations in appendices)

RUBRIC FOR FINAL REPORT Excellent (A) Good (B) Fair (C) 4 3 2 Summarizes goal of Most information Insufficient lab experiment of presented, but some summary of what exercise and its items may be was done. Few results concisely. missing. specific results Specific information presented. provided. Discusses why the Gives general Some information study/activity was description of the on the purpose of done. Presents purpose of the activity is given but background activity, but some no background or information, with relevant background references provided. references, relevant information may be to the study/activity. missing. Concisely describes Methods generally Methods may be materials & are well described insufficiently methods or gives or referenced, but explained, or may references to items may be be described in too sources of methods insufficiently much detail. Large used. Assumptions described or left gaps in information. well described. out. Data are presented Data tables are Insufficient data are in one or more presented, but some presented, or tables, with calculations may be several errors in accompanying text in error; some data calculations are to introduce the may be missing or present and distract tables. Figures are figures may be from the results. used to illustrate key insufficient. Text and/or figures comparisons or may be missing. trends. No errors in calculations. Clearly discusses Generally clear Limited discussion of and interprets what discussion of results results and results mean and and conclusions, but conclusions. Little or what conclusions may miss some no reference to may be drawn from points. Some use of published standards them. Cites references and or other reports. published standards published standards. or other related articles. Includes references Appropriate Few references are to methods, related references are given. Style is studies, background generally present; incorrect and/or sources within text; some may be incomplete. list of complete incomplete or citations in incorrect style. appropriate style at the end (APA style format) Writing is free of Writing is generally Writing has some errors in grammar, error-free. Sentence errors but are not punctuation, flow is generally too distracting. capitalization, and smooth and logical. Voice may change spelling. Flows Standard style is randomly. Flow is smoothly. Logical generally followed. not consistently connection of Minor errors may be smooth; appears points. present. disjointed.

Poor (D) 1 Contains no specific information.

Provides little or no information on why the activity was done. No background information given. Most key pieces of information are missing. References to methods are not provided.

Raw data are missing. Reported counts are calculated incorrectly. No text to present the results. No figures or alternative methods of data presentation. Reader can gain very little information about why the lab activity was done and what the results may mean. No reference to other studies. No references cited.

Errors are frequent and distracting, so that it is hard to understand meaning. No logical connection of ideas or flow of sentences. Journal paper style is not followed.

(Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2003)