Standards for Lab Reports and Projects

  Grade Range Performance Level
5 95 - 100
  • Clearly goes beyond expectations
  • Shows evidence of extra time and energy expended
  • Professional quality/one of a kind report
  • Shows that the student has a deep understanding of the concepts
  • Well-organized with all required sections
  • Analysis covers experimental error and precision and accuracy
  • Conclusion describes result and relevance of result, giving everyday examples
  • Includes “extras”: special insights, deeper analysis
4 90 - 93
  • High quality
  • Well-organized with all required sections
  • Shows clear understanding of the material
  • Analysis covers experimental error and precision and accuracy
  • Conclusion describes result and relevance of result, giving everyday examples
  • Very few mistakes, if any
3 80 - 85
  • Meets minimum expectations
  • Conclusion describes result and relevance of result, giving everyday examples
  • Experimental error is discussed
  • Organized
  • Only a few mistakes
  • Shows basic understanding
2 72 - 75
  • Needs improvement
  • Obviously requires more time to be complete
  • Conclusion is incomplete
  • Experimental error is not covered
  • Poor spelling/grammar
  • Explanations are limited and/or incorrect
  • Poorly organized
  • Product has mistakes or grievous errors in understanding
1 60
  • Poor quality/incomplete
  • Shows evidence that little if any effort was expended
  • Contains many errors
  • No conclusion, no analysis
  • Poor spelling/grammar
  • No explanations given
  • Disorganized
  • Shows that student did not understand the material
0 0
  • No credit awarded
  • Not complete/not handed in
  • Shows no effort
  • Shows no understanding

If you receive a grade on a lab report or project that you would like to improve you must hand in a new draft within a week of receiving the graded report. When you hand in a new draft please be sure to hand in the original draft along with it for purposes of comparison. Do-overs handed in without the first draft showing my comments will not be accepted. In order to have the opportunity to improve the grade the original must be handed in on the due date.

Last updated: Dec 04, 2007       Home