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Degree

Master of Arts in Education, Defiance College, Education, 2003.

Abstract

Forty-four eighth grade students in a rural, northwest Ohio school participated in the study during September and October of 2002. The purpose of the study was to determine if the use of rubrics in eighth grade science classes improved the quality of lab reports. Students completed one lab report without a rubric and then students and the researcher created a lab report rubric that the students used to write their second lab report. The researcher evaluated both lab reports in eleven categories and compared the pre-rubric lab report with the post rubric lab report evaluations. Students made overall gains in nine of the eleven assessed categories on the post rubric lab report. They also increased an average of eighteen percentage points on the post rubric lab report compared to the pre-rubric lab report.

Subject Headings

Science education

Keywords

rubrics; laboratory reports; science education; eighth grade

Committee / Advisors

Jo Ann Burkhardt (Advisor)
Suzanne McFarland (Committee Member)

Pages

55p.

Document number: def1281623873
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