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Classifying Rocks
Rubric
Contributed by: New York State Alternative Assessment in Science Project (NYSED)

Maximum Score - 5 Points


Question 1. Observations of dots 4 points total

Standard: The student describes what happens when water reaches each dot.

Point Criteria: Blue dot and Red dot A

  • 1 point for each reasonable description.

    Acceptable descriptors:
    • didn't move
    • didn't blur
    • stayed as a dot
    • nothing
    • stayed the same
    • didn't wear out
    • didn't come out
    • it got wet
    • didn't come off
    • didn't spread out
    • it got soaked
    • it didn't change

Standard: The student describes what happens when water reaches each dot.

Point Criteria: Yellow dot and Red dot B

  • 1 point for each reasonable description.

    Acceptable descriptors for movement:
    • climbed up
    • moved
    • smudged
    • touched the top
    • color went up
    • absorbed to the top
    • spread out
    • ran
    • raised
    • reached the top
    • smeared
    • moved upward
    • got bigger
    • blurred
    • moved off the circle

    Acceptable descriptions for color change:

  • fades
  • gets lighter
  • color thins out

***No credit is given if the student only states that either Red dot B or Yellow dot changed.


Question 2. Reason why red dots behaved differently 1 point total

Standard: The student explains why the red dots acted differently.

Point Criteria:

  • 1 point for a reasonable comparison of the red dot and the other dots on the paper.

      Acceptable descriptors of comparison:

  • One dot used permanent ink and the other didn't.
  • They were different solutions.
  • One dot is water color and the other isn't.
  • They were different markers or inks.
  • They are made of different stuff.
  • One is washable and the other isn't.

      UNacceptable answers:

  • They were different.
  • One moved and one didn't.
***No credit is given if the student only restates the observations made in question 1.***



Highest possible score - 5 points


NYS Alternative Assessment in Science Project
NSF Grant #MDR-9154506
Copyright, April, 1996
The State University of New York
The State Education Department
Albany, New York 12234

 


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