Independent Project Evaluation Rubric 2015-16

Name: Simon Walter

Complete one of these rubrics for each project you work on during the term.
Brief Project Description Statistics- Data Set Analysis
Name of an expert who is qualified Dan Walter
and available to assess your project:
Name five or more criteria you will use to evaluate the quality of your project. Then describe high and low quality for each criteria. When you
complete the project, or the term, you will ask the expert named above to use this evaluation rubric you will use to assess your project. This rubric
must be included to earn distribution requirements for the project.
Criteria

Description of High Quality Project

Description of Low Quality Project

Required skill: identify if data set

Differences between experiments and observational
originates from an experiment or an studies are clearly explained, and reasons data set is
observational study
defined as one or the other are as well

No explanation of differences between experiments

and observational studies provided, data set is not
defined as one or the other

Required skill: identify mean,

median, mode, and standard
deviation for all variables

All calculations are accurate and properly labeled

according to their respective variables

Calculations are inaccurate, not properly matched

to variables

Required skill: identify possible

confounding variables

At least two possible confounding variables are

identified and the ways in which they could affect the
data are clearly explained

Possible confounding variables are not identified,

reasons for providing them are not explained

Required skill: form hypothesis

Hypothesis adheres to proper test design (includes

null hypothesis and grounds for rejection)

Null hypothesis or grounds for rejection of the null

are not included

Required skill: calculate correlation

values for at least one pair of
variables

All calculations are accurate and their implications in

rejecting / accepting the null hypothesis are clearly
explained

Calculations are inaccurate, no explanation of how

they lead to acceptance or rejection of the null
hypothesis

GUM and formatting

No errors in grammar or spelling, paper is properly

formatted and easy to read, all data is properly cited

Errors in grammar or spelling, paper is hard to read

because of the way it is formatted, data is not cited