Visual illusion lab: Rubric

Total points for whole lab: 40 points, 4.3% of your class grade

Task 1

Total points: 5

Correctly links class topics/concepts to the illusion (10 × 0.5)

Task 2

Total points: 5
  • Attends a meeting (/1)
  • Initial attempt at identifying a scientific question (/2)
  • Initial attempt at designing an illusion (/2)

Task 3

Total points:15
  • The webpage has a clear statement of the new question (/1)
  • The question is relevant to perception: e.g., it extends on the motivations in the original paper or connects this experiment to other concepts covered in class (/3)
  • The illusion design could reasonably be expected to answer the question (/4)
  • The webpage has an explanation of how how stimuli are designed to answer the research question (/3)
  • Experiencing the demo answers the question (/3)
  • The webpage has full citations to the appropriate papers and resources (/1)

Task 4

Total points: 13

Completes comments on 2 other students' illusions.

  • Describe your perceptual experience (2 × /2)
  • Stated conclusion follows reasonably from stimulus design and experience as described (2 × /2)

Completes reply on own illusions.

  • Explains how subjective experiences leads to specific conclusions about human perception (/3)
  • part d) synthesizes the comments and demo design to plan the next 'research' steps (/2)

Task 5

Total points: 2

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