Sunday, November 15, 2015

Complete Seneca Lake Lab Report

Here it is, buddies. Enjoy.

It is now updated as of 9:15 on 11/19, thanks Bandicoot for all your helpful advice.  Final copy is ready.

2 comments:

  1. Criteria
    Planning Aspect 1: Complete, shows appropriate selection of variables, to this lab, and chooses an appropriate research question.

    Planning Aspect 2:Partial Complete for the most part excluding that in answering your research question, depth of every given sample location would need to be another controlled variable (listing that would make it complete).

    Planning Aspect 3:Complete, demonstrates appropriate methods for both contorting variables (see method, and has procedures laid out to measure a variety of things appropriate for answering the research question.

    Data Collection and processing Aspect 1: Complete because it Recorded the raw data associated with this lab,and each sample site(see Water chemistry, and Plankton collection Charts ).

    Data Collection and processing Aspect 2: Incomplete. Results section has now information regarding processed data, has no graphs, or statistical analysis of the raw data.

    Data Collection and processing Aspect 3: Incomplete. As stated before Failure to present raw data in graphical form leads to an incomplete section. (to remedy this I would suggest following few guidelines (listed in the E.S.S Guide rubric) in shoring up your results section, and the incomplete. Graphs should be of the processed data or should include some processing in them, if that is more appropriate.
     Graphs should have clear descriptive titles and labeling of the axes with appropriate scales used.
     Statistical analysis of the data may be necessary and could include simple statistical descriptors such as mean, mode or median.

    Discussion Evaluation, and Conclusion Aspect 1: Partial. Puts the lab in appropriate context. Evaluates the acceptability of Student data, and sets up future mention of pit falls in data (due to human error) for the future. Though this discussion aspect fails to demonstrate the trends in the data collected (by students, and how that data worked with the data taken from the probe as well. (include a section detailing trends in data, and relate the data in the graph to receive full credit.

    Discussion Evaluation, and Conclusion Aspect 2: Partial. Makes references to ways in which the lab could be improved, lists some faults evident in the lab, and sources of human error. However to get a complete I would suggest developing this a little further, add more potential reasons why the lab was unsuccessful (such as time, inconsistency in depth, or changing atmospheric condition). With these new sources list a few ways in which these problems could be fixed for future labs, and also suggest ways in which the students errors could be fixed for future attempts as well.

    Discussion Evaluation, and Conclusion Aspect 3: Partial: Does tie in hypothesis to the conclusion, and lists how the data supports the claim. However the conclusion should feature more information for the Data, and Discussion aspects of the lab report to receive a full grade (essentially this should be a short concise summation of the data you found, with references to the evaluation, and Dissuasion aspects of your lab.

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