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 of students' performance in the physics laboratory measured by the following 16 SAAR observation items.
SAARB1An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 1.
SAARB2An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 2.
SAARB3An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 3.
SAARB4An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 4.
SAARB5An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 5.
SAARB6An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 6.
SAARB7An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 7.
SAARB8An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 8.
SAARB9An observation using SAAR on the Rubric B item 9.
SAARF10An observation using SAAR on the Rubric F item 1 (SAAR item 10).
SAARF11An observation using SAAR on the Rubric F item 2 (SAAR item 11).
SAARG12An observation using SAAR on the Rubric G item 1 (SAAR item 12).
SAARG13An observation using SAAR on the Rubric G item 2 (SAAR item 13).
SAARG14An observation using SAAR on the Rubric G item 3 (SAAR item 14).
SAARG15An observation using SAAR on the Rubric G item 4 (SAAR item 15).
SAARG16An observation using 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).
library(spheredata)
# Call the data from spheredata package
get("SAAR")
# Open the data
SAAR
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