Peer Review requires you to critically evaluate the work of another student. You must be familiar with the the details of Writing a Scientific Paper.

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The process is done at two levels:

1. The purpose of the intitial critique of a laboratory report is to check for basic errors in grammar, sentence structure, data set organization and the general tone of the paper.

a. Examine the paper by reading it and looking for misspellings, mistakes in punctuation and syntax (sentence structure) errors. Use a pencil, or pen, to edit errors for correction later.

b. Look at the data set (table or graph) and determine if the data has been displayed appropriately.

Lab Rubric

(1) If the data is on a table, be sure that it contains only pertinent data, is labeled properly and is easy to read.

(2) If the data is graphed, be sure that the graph is appropriate and is labeled correctly.

c. After reading the paper and looking for the above criteria, judge the paper's overall validity (correctness of content) by writing a short paragraph to the author of the report explaining how you perceive their work.

Example:

-Procedures are straight forward and repeatable, or confusing and not detailed enough to repeat the experiment.

-Correct or incorrect conclusions from data.

-Addressed the hypothesis correctly, incorrectly or not at all.

2. The second level of evaluation is to the repeat the experiment actually using the report as a guide. By doing this you are checking the validity of the procedures and the data by attempting to do what the author says they did.

 

Finally, having completed the two step evaluation, the Laboratory Rubric is used to score each aspect of the laboratory report. The rubric totals will be converted into a number grade having an A through E value.