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TIES Rubrics
Examining the Quality of Thinking
This module is designed to help you develop skill in examining
a contaminant in a specific environment, Ramford County.
We believe that if you are immersed in the problems and
data of this specific situation, you will be well equipped
to examine the effect of this, or any, contaminant in other
situations. Therefore, we expect that your report will be
specifically related to the Ramford County situation and
use those data presented in the module. Your team reports
should be organized by the issues identified in the rubric.
The problem requires analysis of data about the contaminant
in the environment in terms of:
- Causes/sources
- Extent of the problem
- Exposure to humans and the environment
- Strategies for cleanup and/or remediation and related
to extent of the problem All teams consider these core
issues and then each team takes a unique perspective of
the problem to examine in depth:
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Team
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Specific
areas of investigation
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Economic
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Cost (and cost effectiveness) of mitigation, responsibility
for contamination and cleanup, potential economic
impact
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Field
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Environmental concentrations, interaction with environment
(including how conditions affect contaminant, persistence
and movement)
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Laboratory
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Threat to humans and wildlife, routes and levels
of exposure
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Solutions/Technology
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Cleanup and remediation technologies, further exposure
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Specialists
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Meteorologist, GIS specialist, ethicist, epidemiologist,
etc.
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The rubric is a guide to quality thinking. It describes
a continuum of progress toward an exemplary response (4).
It presupposes that language use and mechanics do not interfere
with meaning. It is cumulative in the sense that a Level
2 response both describes the situation and states conclusions;
a Level 4 response makes recommendations that are based
on scientific explanations for the conclusions drawn about
the situation. Enough data and sources are given in the
module to support a Level 4 response. In general, the levels
represent a continuum of understanding, moving from definition
to application of the knowledge:
- Describes the situation created by the contaminant
- States conclusions with evidence and citations* to support
those conclusions
- Gives an explanation for the situation using logic,
historical data, chemical analyses and data representations
such as, graphs and charts to analyze and synthesize data
to support a scientific explanation.
- Tells the significance of the effects and issues on
the air, land, water and living things. Applies what is
known about this specific situation to make recommendations
and support them with data from Ramford County and analogous
situations.
*Citation = documentation of a source of information being
used as evidence to support a conclusion or explanation,
including author, publication, and context. Author and date
should appear with the information in the text, and a full
citation in a list of references at the end (APA style):
http://www.ramapo.edu/content/campus.resources/potter/cite.html
For guidelines on plagiarism:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
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