Writing High Quality Lab Conclusions

Take a few minutes to examine the data set What observations can you make by looking at the data? What would you need to to do to write a good conclusion about this data? What are the elements of a good conclusion? Take a few minutes to examine the data set

Checklist of conclusion guidelines Did you summarize and include data or results essential to your conclusions? Did you identify any trends or relationships in your data or results? Did you clearly explain your conclusions using your data or results? Are there any additional experiments that you would perform to explore unanswered questions? Did you discuss any real-world applications related to this information? Did you use complete sentences? Did you anticipate any questions the reader may have?

With your desk partner write a conclusion using the checklist Examples

Low quality example

High Quality Example

Conclusion Scoring Rubric Based on the scoring rubric, how would you assess your first attempt at writing a lab conclusion? Conclusion Scoring Rubric