Rubric for Final Project Report

Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning

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Criteria

 Good organization;  Organized; points are  Some organization;  Poorly organized; no

points are logically somewhat jumpy; sense points jump around; logical progression;
Organization 10% ordered; sharp sense of of beginning and ending beginning and ending beginning and ending
beginning and end are unclear are vague

 The project’s objectives  Some lack of clarity in  Objective and motivation  Unable to find specific
are clearly stated. objectives/purpose. of the project are not details
 The motivation for  The motivation for clear or described.
pursuing the project pursuing the project are
Problem and its relevance are somewhat clear, but no
clearly and support provided.
Statement / 10%
persuasively
Motivation established by relating
the project to related
work.
 Supporting details
specific to subject
 Prior work is  With an occasional  Some related work  Little attempt is made
acknowledged by oversight, prior work is described, but unclear to acknowledge the
referring to sources for acknowledged by as to how they relate to work of others. Most
theories, assumptions, referring to sources for the project or the link to references that are
quotations, and theories, assumptions, the project is included are inaccurate
findings. quotations, and questionable. or unclear.
Related
10%  References are exact findings.
Work with author, journal,  With some minor
volume number, page exceptions, references
number, and year. are exact with author,
journal, volume
number, page number,
and year.
 Approach is clearly  Approach somewhat  Some attempt at  Very little description of
Design of described, with detailed clearly described, with describing approach and any design choices, their
20%
Approach explanation of the model some missing details. design choices, but justification or intuition,
architecture.  Most design choices motivation or intuition for or data to support them.
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  Strong data/evidence well-described, some them are unclear.
provided for at least lack of clarity or  No data or intuition
some of the choices. justification for them. provided for various
 Design choices explicitly choices made.
mentioned and justified.
 Shows good
understanding of
material, tradeoffs
between various
options.
 Experiments are well-  Experiments are  Experiments do not align  Very little effort put
designed to verify or somewhat well-designed well with problem towards designing and
refute claims made in and cover most of the statement or test overall conducting experiments.
problem statement. important conditions. claims of project.
Experimental  Several baseline or  Some missing  Glaring errors in the
10%
Design other conditions are experiments or design of experiments
performed to validate conditions that would that make the
improvements. strengthen argument conclusions void.
 Experiments validate significantly.
design choices.
 Thorough analysis of  Thorough analysis of  Results are analyzed  No or little results
results, presenting not results but some glaring superficially with only raw shown.
just raw evaluation data questions unanswered. numbers being dictated  Very little analysis of
but conclusions that can  Results for claims or rather than potential results, with even a
Analysis of
20% be drawn from them. problem statement not causes for those results. superficial analysis
Results  Strong links made fully satisfactory. missing.
between problem
statement, claims made,
and results.
 Discussion and  Some discussion and  Major components  Little discussion or
conclusions tie the conclusions drawn, but missing in the conclusions drawn.
Discussion problem statement, missing some points in discussion.
experiments, and results terms of linkage of  Little attempt to tie
and 10%
well to tell an overall results to problem together experiments
Conclusions story. statement. and problem
 Future work clearly statement/claims.
outlined.

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  Strong poster in terms  Some missing elements  Poster minimally  Poster does not
of organization, or lack of organization in describes major sections accurately or effectively
coverage of the topic, the poster, missing some of the project and do not reflect the project goals,
Poster
10% description of portions of problem convey the problem, approach, or results.
Quality motivation/problem and statement or results. approach, and results in
approach/results, and a way that is
visual appearance. understandable.

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