You found out microgravity is a big issue in space
travel from reading, "The Ups and Downs
of Space Travel." Click
on the book icon to the right and open the passage.This time through the passage, pull together
the ideas from the article, and your own ideas to
evaluate scientists' potential solutions to microgravity.
The question for this passage asks you to use your
thinking skills to form your own opinion from information
in the article. Get those thinking skills ready.
Do you agree or disagree with the following
information?
Scientists will find a way to solve the problems
associated with microgravity.
Support your answer with information from the selection.
Remember in an example exercise, you are working with
scoring and evaluting answers already written. Included
in this example are a two point and a one point written
response. See if you can determine which is which. First,
let's look at the criteria used to evaluate the two responses.
A
two point response agrees or disagrees with
the statement and supports the answer with relevant
text-based information (if response both agrees and
disagrees, it needs to have support for both.)
before
it was built and
after
it was built.
A
one point response agrees or disagrees with
the statement but supports the answer in a vague or
superficial way (if response both agrees and disagrees
and has support for only one, it would receive 1 point.)
A
zero point answer might be "I don't
know." Or it might not state an agreement or disagreement,
or may not provide text-based support of opinion.
Now you might want to take just
a few minutes and write your own TWO point response
so you have something to compare to the two other
responses.
Here are the two different responses. Evaluate and score
each response.
Student 1 writes:
I disagree because scientists can't really
know what all harms microgravity can do for
long periods of time such as three years, unless
they actually take a trip and that would mean
having to take the risks of whatever possible
harm microgravity does.
Score this response:
2
1
0
Student 2 writes:
No, because there is not a lot of chance
they can even find all of the problems associated
with microgravity.
Score this response:
2
1
0
Now on to your own practice in evaluating reasons and
ideas.
