Department of Engineering (DOEN)

LAB REPORT ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

Student Name : _____________________________ ID number : _____________________

Items Unacceptable Satisfactory Moderate Good Excellent Score

Score 0 1 2 3 4

Introduction, More than one of Either one of introduction, Introduction and objectives Introduction is adequately Introduction, objective
objective & introduction, objectives and stated; Precaution miss at elaborated; Objectives are and precautionary
safety
objectives and precautionary measures least one important stated sufficiently clearly; measures are fully
measures
precautionary are missing; elaboration consideration; will result in All precautions adopted elaborated and/or
measures done is irrelevant or some risk to student safety are likely to produce a addressed relevantly as
missing. inappropriate to the if not revised safe experiment per the experiment
experiment

Timeliness Report handed in Report handed in more Up to one day late Up to one hour late Report handed in time
more than three than two days late
days late.

Experimental No procedures Procedures do not Procedures are listed, but Procedures are listed, Procedured are listed in
procedures are listed. accurately list the steps of seem missing some important experimental clear steps; each step is
the experiment information,some steps details are covered, some numbered and in a
are not numbered and/or minor details missing complete sentence.
are in incomplete
sentences.

Result: data, No figures, Figures, graphs, tables Most figures, graphs, All figures, graphs, tables All figures, graphs,
figures, graphs, tables are contain errors or are poorly tables OK, some still are correctly drawn, but tables are correctly
graphs, provided. constructed, have missing missing some important or some have minor drawn, are numbered
tables, etc. titles, captions or numbers, required features problems or could still be and contain
units missing or incorrect, improved titles/captions.
etc.

Discussion/ Incomplete or Very incomplete or Some of the results have Almost all of the results All important trends and
Observation incorrect incorrect interpretation of been correctly interpreted have been correctly data comparisons have
interpretation of trends and comparison of and discussed; partial but interpreted and discussed, been interpreted
trends and data indicating a lack of incomplete understanding only minor improvements correctly and discussed,
comparison of understanding of results of results is still evident are needed good understanding of
data. results is conveyed

Conclusion Incomplete or Conclusions missing or Conclusions regarding All important conclusions All important
incorrect missing the important major points are drawn, have been drawn, could conclusions have been
conclusion. points but many are misstated, be better stated clearly made, student
indicating a lack of shows good
understanding understanding

Appearance Appearance and Sections out of order, Sections in order, Lab report is mostly Lab report is
and formatting totally report is not typed/written formatting is rough but typed/written using the typed/written
formatting inappropriate. using the appropriate in well-formatted, very
readable appropriate format, all
format readable.
sections in order,
formatting generally good
but could still be improved

Spelling, Grammar/spelling Frequent grammar and/or Occasional Less than 3 All grammar/spelling
grammar, error, spelling errors. grammar/spelling errors, grammar/spelling errors, correct and very well-
writing style is generally readable with mature, readable style written
sentence
rough and some rough spots in
structure immature. writing style

Total Mark

Final Score Percentage = (Total Marks /32)*10

(%)

Name of Assessor: ______________________ Signature: _______________________