Leah Akins, Ph.D.
Resources and Tools
Tools for Technical Report Writing and Progress Reports:
Grading Rubric for Lab Notebooks and Links to Notebook Writing Tips:
Rochester Institute of Technology - Lab Notebooks (http://people.rit.edu/rhrsbi/GEPages/Notebook.html)
Numbered list of expectations for a lab notebook used for genetic engineering at RIT. List is derived from lab notebook requirements at Eastman Kodak.
(http://www.physics.hmc.edu/howto/labnotebook.html)
Some useful information about lab reports and lab notebooks. More conversational rather than a list of required elements.
Tools for Team Assessment:
Using Assessment for Developing Team Building Skills
Team Assessment Form - Supplement
Team Assessment - Sample Student Feedback
Why Assessment?
To borrow a quote from
"Guidelines for the Implementation of Campus-Based Assessment in the State University of New York"
Assessment is not evaluation, nor is it competition. Assessment is a process, first and foremost, for understanding and improving student learning. Further, a true "culture of assessment" requires that assessment results … be shared only with appropriate stakeholders.
Assessment results should never be used to punish, publicly compare, or embarrass students, faculty, courses, programs, departments, or institutions either individually or collectively, or to make public comparisons among groups of students based on gender, race, ethnicity, or demographic.