Assessment

Evaluate student weather station journals using the following rubric.

Note: The chart that follows identifies four levels of achievement. Levels 1 and 2 describe performance that is approaching the standard for the grade; level 3 describes the standard for the grade; and level 4 describes performance that is above the standard.

The Student Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
demonstrates techniques for detailed record keeping with limited effectiveness, producing a journal with few observations with some effectiveness, producing a journal with partially complete observations with considerable effectiveness, producing a journal with generally complete observations with a high degree of effectiveness, producing a journal with complete observations
communicates using scientific conventions, vocabulary, and terminology recording observations and graphing data with limited accuracy recording observations and graphing data with some accuracy recording observations and graphing data with general accuracy recording observations and graphing data with a high degree of accuracy
uses processing skills and strategies (e.g., analysing, interpreting, evaluating, forming conclusions) with limited effectiveness, identifying few patterns in recorded data with some effectiveness identifying some patterns in recorded data with considerable effectiveness identifying some patterns in recorded data and making predictions based on the patterns with a high degree of effectiveness identifying patterns in recorded data and making reasonable predictions based on the patterns