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Standard / Competency addressed

Criteria

4

Distinguished

3

Proficient

2

Developing Skills

1

Unsatisfactory

Common Core State Standards

ELA

College/Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing #7

Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating

understanding of the subject under investigation.

Identifies an appropriate research topic

Identifies an appropriate research topic

Identifies a research topic that is too simplistic or beyond the scope of the course

Does not identify a research topic

Common Core State Standards

High School Statistics & Probability

The conditions under which data are

collected are important in drawing conclusions from the data; in critically reviewing

uses of statistics in public media and other reports, it is important to consider the

study design, how the data were gathered

Provides a complete description of the context of the research study

Provides an adequate description of the context of the research study

Incomplete description of the context of the research study.

Does not describe the context of the research study.

MA DESE

Curriculum Frameworks

Learning Standard 12.D.1

Design surveys and apply random sampling techniques to avoid bias in the data collection.

Sampling design is complete and potential sources of bias are addressed

Sampling design is complete but includes some sources of bias are present

Sampling design is incomplete and/or includes many sources of bias

No description of sampling design

MA DESE

Curriculum Frameworks

Learning Standard 12.D.2

Select an appropriate graphical representation for a set of data and use appropriate statistics (e.g., quartile or percentile distribution) to communicate information about the data.

Statistical techniques that are identified are complete and appropriate

Some statistical techniques are appropriate, but they are all identified and complete

Some statistical techniques are appropriate, but others are missing or inappropriate

Statistical techniques that are identified are inappropriate

Common Core State Standards

ELA

College/Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing #7

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task,

purpose, and audience

Paper is organized and well-written

Paper is organized and well-written

Paper is organized and well-written, but incomplete

Paper is not well-organized, poorly written and incomplete

Common Core State Standards

Statistics & Probability Overview S-IC.2

Decide if a specified model is consistent with results from a given

data-generating process,

Provides a comprehensive research plan that will make optimal use of the statistical techniques developed in the course,

Provides a research plan that falls short of making optimal use of the statistical techniques developed in the course

Provides a research plan that falls short of making optimal use of the statistical techniques developed in the course

Does not provides a research plan that makes use use of the statistical techniques developed in the course

MA DESE Curriculum Frameworks

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning Overview Statistics & Probability

Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies.

Makes a clear case for the importance of the research for the district/school/class

Makes a case for the importance of the research for the district/school/class

Falls short of making a case for the importance of the research for the district/school/class

Does not make a case for the importance of the research for the district/school/class