Hands-On Performanced-Based Rubric

Criteria	1	2	3	4
Designing the Experiment of Activity	Fails to develop any type of plan	Design allows comparison of variables to standard	Design allows comparison of variables, but lacks sufficient number of tests to obtain meaningful data or draw a valid conclusion	Design allows comparison of variables, and indicates sufficient number of tests to obtain meaningful data and draw a valid conclusion
Collecting and Reporting Data	Describes obervations in a rambling discourse, data values are undeciferable; no units	Makes a data table, but the table lacks meaningful labels and/or units are left out	Makes a meaniful table but fails to record all the observations or records them inaccurately with some units missing or incorrect	Makes a meaningful table, records data accurately with all units correct
Drawing Conclusions	Fails to draw or reach a conclusion	Draws a conclusion that is not supported by the data	Draws a conclusion that is supported by the data, but fails to show the sthe support for the conclusion	Draws a correct conclusion that is supported by the data, and gives supporting evidence for the conclusion
On Task Behaviour	members exhibit on-task behaviour inconsistently	members exhibit on-task behaviour some of the time	most members exhibit on-task behaviour most of the time	all members exhibit on-task behaviour consistently

Criteria Levels are based on Ministry Achievement Chart page 14 of the Program Planning and Assessment document.