Your Rubric

Graphing: Where do you work?

Teacher name: aheitman

Student Name ___________________

CATEGORY	Excellent	Good	Satisfactory	Needs Improvement
Data Table	Data in the table is well organized, accurate, and easy to read.	Data in the table is organized, accurate, and easy to read.	Data in the table is accurate and easy to read.	Data in the table is not accurate and/or cannot be read.
Type of Graph Chosen	Graph fits the data well and makes it easy to interpret.	Graph is adequate and does not distort the data, but interpretation of the data is somewhat difficult.	Graph distorts the data somewhat and interpretation of the data is somewhat difficult.	Graph seriously distorts the data making interpretation almost impossible.
Title	Title is creative and clearly relates to the problem being graphed (includes dependent and independent variable). It is printed at the top of the graph.	Title clearly relates to the problem being graphed (includes dependent and independent variable) and is printed at the top of the graph.	A title is present at the top of the graph.	A title is not present.
Accuracy of Plot	All points are plotted correctly and are easy to see. A ruler is used to neatly connect the points or make the bars, if not using a computerized graphing program.	All points are plotted correctly and are easy to see.	All points are plotted correctly.	Points are not plotted correctly OR extra points were included.
Neatness and Attractiveness	Exceptionally well designed, neat, and attractive. Colors that go well together are used to make the graph more readable. A ruler and graph paper (or graphing computer program) are used.	Neat and relatively attractive. A ruler and graph paper (or graphing computer program) are used to make the graph more readable.	Lines are neatly drawn but the graph appears quite plain.	Appears messy and "thrown together" in a hurry. Lines are visibly crooked.

Date Created: 2003-07-25