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Factor
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4
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3
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2
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1
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n/a
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Access the Literature
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Effectively identifies & uses literature to understand the research topic
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Can identify some sources & understands their relevance to the research topic with some guidance
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Identifies few sources & is unable to understand the connection between the literature & their research topic without frequent guidance
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Unable to develop an understanding of previous work & how it relates to the research topic
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This factor is not relevant to the assignment
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Identify Questions & Generate Hypotheses
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Insightfully recognizes interesting questions & generates testable hypotheses
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Recognizes obvious questions & often generates testable hypotheses
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Often does not recognize questions, or recognizes trivial questions, & struggles to generate testable hypotheses
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Cannot identify research questions & fails to generate testable hypotheses
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This factor is not relevant to the assignment
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Study Design & Data Collection
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Study design generates data that provide clear & interesting answers to the question(s)
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Study design generates relevant data; inferences may be weak or open to question in places
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Study design generates data that are difficult to interpret &/or are marginally relevant to the proposed hypotheses & questions
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Study design is faulty; data are not meaningful & do not address proposed hypotheses & questions
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This factor is not relevant to the assignment
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Data Interpretation
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Independently & correctly interprets data & uses statistical inference where applicable
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Correctly interprets data & uses statistical inference with guidance
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Struggles to interpret data or use statistical inference even with guidance
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Unable to draw correct inferences from data; no understanding of statistical inference
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This factor is not relevant to the assignment
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Communicate Findings
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Effectively communicates all aspects of the project, including questions, importance, approaches, results & interpretation
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Satisfactory communication of most aspects of the project; come components communicated unclearly
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Failed to communicate all aspects of the project; aspects addressed were confusing or incomplete
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Communication fails to address most aspects of the project; demonstrates a clear lack of understanding
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This factor is not relevant to the assignment
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Comments:
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