Assessing Your Work: Content and Investigation (Cosmic Ray e-Lab)
For ongoing assessment, follow the guidance your teacher gave you at the beginning of the project.
For final assessment, the following rubric assesses what you learned about cosmic rays and how well you conducted your study.
Student Researcher: _____________________
Partners: _____________________ _____________________ _______________________
| Exceeds Expectations (3 points) |
Meets Expectations (2 points) |
Does Not Meet Expectations (1 or 0 points) |
Score |
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| Correctly identify the sources of cosmic rays and how they are created in the atmosphere. | Correctly identify some of the sources of cosmic rays and partially explain how they are created in the atmosphere. | Incorrectly identify the sources of cosmic rays and how they are created in the atmosphere. | |
| Fully and correctly explain what the cosmic ray detector measures. | Provide a partial explanation of what the cosmic ray detector measures. | Provide an incomplete or inaccurate explanation of what the cosmic ray detector measures. | |
| Successfully manipulate the data in a way that helps you understand characteristics of the muon. | Manipulate the data in a way that provides a partial understanding of the characteristics of the muon. | Manipulate the data in a way that provides an incomplete or inaccurate understanding of the characteristics of the muon. | |
| Design, execute and publish an investigation using cosmic ray data. | Partially design, execute and publish an investigation using cosmic ray data. | Fail to design, execute and publish an investigation using cosmic ray data. | |
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TOTAL SCORE |
OVERALL POINT TOTAL: _____________
COMMENTS: