Assessment Criteria
The evaluation measures source literacy and scientific humility, not whether the student "was right". Five criteria across four assessment levels. Verification of source status and honest judgment carry the most weight.
| Criterion | Excellent | Good | Developing | Insufficient | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1. The human anchor (own understanding + certainty level, without machine) | Clear, honest about uncertainty; used in comparison | Present and used | Superficial | Missing or written after the fact | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Source tracing | Fact traced back to the actual original source | Mostly traced | Incomplete tracing | No tracing — answer accepted as truth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Status verification | Status of each source checked (exists/retracted/replicated) using shown method | Most checked | Inconsistent | Status never checked | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Honest Oracle (hallucination/consensus) | Finds hallucinated citations + distinguishes consensus from echo chamber; rejects ≥2 | Rejects with arguments | Shallow rejection | Accepted all sources as valid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Judgment and humility | Reasoned judgment; distinguishes verified from unverified; "don't know" respected as a conclusion | Reasoned judgment | Generally phrased | Asserts beyond the data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall Grade (Guideline)
- Excellent: 4–5 criteria excellent, nothing below "Good".
- Good: most "Good" or better, source status verified.
- Pass: methodological locks present but shallow.
- Fail: sources accepted as valid without verification, or assertions made beyond the data.
Key rule: a source without verified status does not count as proof, and "I could not verify this" is a valid, honest conclusion — not a failure.