Business & Finance HOMEWORK

Midterm and Final Lab Report Rubric (Revised: 8-2025) Course: BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab

Criteria Not yet proficient Proficient Highly proficient Criterion Score

Section 1

Background

/ 2010 points

Missing the section (0p).

Addressing the require-

ments but includes ma-

jor conceptual errors, or

misses more than two

requirements.

5-10

15 points

Present the three re-

quirements with minor

errors. Misses one of the

requirements. May have

less than 200 words.

(10-15)

20 points

Describes the factor(s)

explored and their im-

portance. For Midterm

lab, identifies the two

variables explored in the

experiment, including

Bottle 6. Includes hy-

pothesis. Minimum 200

words. (16-20 points)

3/2/26, 8:03 AM Assignment: Final Lab Report - Evaluate the Effect of Salinity on Plants - BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab - National University System

https://navigate.nu.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folder_submit_files.d2l?db=142275&grpid=0&isprv=&bp=0&ou=86895 1/5

Criteria Not yet proficient Proficient Highly proficient Criterion Score

Section 2 Materials

and Methods

/ 25

Section 3 Results

Tables

/ 10

5 points

Missing or clearly copy-

pasted from manual.

Much longer than re-

quired. (0-5)

15 points

Summarizes most of the

materials and methods,

but includes some er-

rors. May be slightly (+/-

100 words) shorter or

longer than required. (6-

15) Lab report is miss-

ing a section or they are

not in bold.

25 points

Correctly summarizes

the materials and meth-

ods used in the experi-

ment. Uses their own

words. Between 200-

500 words.

(16-25 points)

3 points

Missing the section (0p)

Contains errors,

misses more than

one table (1-3p)

7 points

Missing a table, includes

minor errors in calcula-

tions. (4-7p)

10 points

Includes the three re-

quired tables, filled out

and calculated correctly,

plus any additional infor-

mation in a narrative

form.

(8-10 p)

3/2/26, 8:03 AM Assignment: Final Lab Report - Evaluate the Effect of Salinity on Plants - BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab - National University System

https://navigate.nu.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folder_submit_files.d2l?db=142275&grpid=0&isprv=&bp=0&ou=86895 2/5

Criteria Not yet proficient Proficient Highly proficient Criterion Score

Section 3 Results

Graph

/ 10

Pictures / 5

0 points

No graph

7 points

Graph may miss some of

the details or the legend,

may be of a type that is

not appropriate for the

data (5-7p)

10 points

Includes at least one

appropriate graph,

with axes labeled,

including units, plus

a legend that briefly

states what is

shown in the graph.

There is consistency

between the data

and the graph. (8-

10 p)

0 points

Missing pictures- if no

picture is present the

grade for the whole re-

port is 0.

4 points

Three pictures are

present but missing

some of the elements (1-

4 p).

5 points

All three pictures, cor-

rectly labeled (5) includ-

ing the "Student

Information Card" de-

tailed in the syllabus.

3/2/26, 8:03 AM Assignment: Final Lab Report - Evaluate the Effect of Salinity on Plants - BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab - National University System

https://navigate.nu.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folder_submit_files.d2l?db=142275&grpid=0&isprv=&bp=0&ou=86895 3/5

Criteria Not yet proficient Proficient Highly proficient Criterion Score

Section 4 Discussion / 25

Section 5

References

/ 3

9 points

Missing (0p)

Discussion is largely

absent, inconsistent

with the results re-

ported, writing is

not coherent, an-

swers contain major

conceptual errors.

(1-9p)

19 points

Discussion tackles the

requirements, but may

contain minor errors and

inconsistencies, or the

writing may be uneven.

Less than 50 words un-

der the word limit (10-

19p)

25 points

Discussion answers the

required questions, and

the answers are consis-

tent with the data re-

ported in the Results

section. Writing is co-

herent and consistent.

Student reflects back to

the hypothesis. Word

limit is followed. (20-

25p)

1 point

No references (0p)

2 points

References are present

but may be incorrectly

formatted, not cited in

the text, or from sources

not considered rep-

utable. (1-2 p)

Or three references but

not all reputable.

3 points

3 APA formatted quality

references at the end,

properly cited in the

text. (3p)

3/2/26, 8:03 AM Assignment: Final Lab Report - Evaluate the Effect of Salinity on Plants - BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab - National University System

https://navigate.nu.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folder_submit_files.d2l?db=142275&grpid=0&isprv=&bp=0&ou=86895 4/5

Total / 100

Overall Score

Criteria Not yet proficient Proficient Highly proficient Criterion Score

Format, grammar,

language

/ 20.67 points

Writing is not college

level, includes major

grammar/spelling errors,

difficult to understand

(0p)

1.33 points

May include minor typos

or punctuation errors

(1p)

2 points

Writing is college level,

without grammar or

spelling errors, includes

correct punctuation, and

flows easily. (2p)

Poor 0 points minimum

Fair 40 points minimum

Good 60 points minimum

Excellent 80 points minimum

3/2/26, 8:03 AM Assignment: Final Lab Report - Evaluate the Effect of Salinity on Plants - BIO100A Survey of Bioscience Lab - National University System

https://navigate.nu.edu/d2l/lms/dropbox/user/folder_submit_files.d2l?db=142275&grpid=0&isprv=&bp=0&ou=86895 5/5