Assessing Your Work
For ongoing assessment follow the guidance your teacher gave you at the beginning of the project.
For final assessment the following rubric assesses what you learned about the Hunt for the Higgs.
Rubric
Student Researcher: _____________________
Partners: _____________________ _____________________ _____________________
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Exceeds Expectations |
Meets Expectations |
Does Not Meet Expectations |
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1 or 0 |
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Explain how physicists identify particles. |
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Explain how physicists look for candiate events. |
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Determine a criterion for b quarks critical to identifying candidate events for the Higgs boson. |
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Determine B lifetime or W & Z mass and Higgs masses. |
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Hone Excel skills for creating and plotting histograms. |
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Explain the effect of analyusing different cuts of the data on the value of W mass. |
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Use judgment to interpret plots. |
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TOTAL SCORE
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OVERALL POINT TOTAL: _____________
COMMENTS:
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