The SAAR is developed as a qualitative scoring rubric intended to measure students’ scientific abilities within the environment of physics laboratory. A rating scale with four categories (1–4) is used in this dataset to describe the students’ work in the laboratory (1, missing; 2, inadequate; 3, needs some improvement; and 4, adequate) and devised descriptions of student work that could merit a particular score. In this package, we merely measure some abilities from the SAAR since they could be more relevant and important for the high school physics laboratory. They are the ability to design & conduct an observational experiment (Rubric B),the ability to communicate scientific ideas (Rubric F), and the ability to collect and analyze experimental data (Rubric G).
data(SAAR)A data frame with 497 observations on the following 16 SAAR observation items in the physics laboratory.
SAAR-B1A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 1.
SAAR-B2A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 2.
SAAR-B3A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 3.
SAAR-B4A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 4.
SAAR-B5A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 5.
SAAR-B6A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 6.
SAAR-B7A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 7.
SAAR-B8A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 8.
SAAR-B9A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric B item 9.
SAAR-F10A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric F item 1 (SAAR item 10).
SAAR-F11A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric F item 2 (SAAR item 11).
SAAR-G12A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric G item 1 (SAAR item 12).
SAAR-G13A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric G item 2 (SAAR item 13).
SAAR-G14A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric G item 3 (SAAR item 14).
SAAR-G15A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric G item 4 (SAAR item 15).
SAAR-G16A numeric of the observation using the SAAR on the Rubric G item 5 (SAAR item 16).
Etkina, E. et al. Scientific abilities and their assessment. Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research 2, 020103 (2006).