Evolutionary Neuroscience :: Final project rubric
Fundamentally, what I am looking for is work that is on time, well-developed, thoughtful, organized, neat, and of high quality. I will evaluate your website for excellence in the following areas:
- Topic choice
- Related to evolution of cognition and/or the brain
- Addresses a current controversy in the field or the historical development of ideas
- Background
- Establishes meaningful context and significance of topic for broad audiences
- Writing is grounded in a thorough review of the literature
- Key concepts are explained clearly
- Defines the questions to be addressed and previews the structure of the site
- Provides links to 1–3 external resources for further information
- Review of the literature
- Review primarily relies on findings from primary research papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Results from studies are described succinctly and cited appropriately
- Interprets findings critically
- For historical approaches, explains the key findings that altered the prevailing theories
- For controversy-based approaches, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of papers that support or challenge the competing theories
- Conclusions
- Reaches a synthesis related to the context and questions established in the Background
- Summarizes the extent to which the controversy or historical development has been resolved to date
- Makes recommendations for future work.
- Organization
- Layout is clean, with readable typefaces
- Pages are easy to navigate
- Links to external resources work
- Graphics are clear, captioned, and properly attributed
- Style is clear, concise, readable, mature, and polished, with a minimum of grammatical and typographical errors
- Communicates effectively with both expert and non-expert audiences