Week 5: Assignment 2: Course Project, Case Report

Instructions

• Review the to confirm submission requirements for your Case Report.
• Submit your Case Report document here as a .doc or .pdf file.
• Make sure you have integrated in-text citations from you learning materials and any outside credible sources you used. Include full citations in a reference list at the end of the Case Report.

Rubric

Course Project: Case Report (1)

Course Project: Case Report (1)

CriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome

Paper Format

Case report meets formatting requirements. Length is 4-5 pages of text, in Times New Roman, 12 pt. Font, 1.5 line spacing, with 1 inch margins all around. Paper is in APA format with proper spelling and grammar.

5 pts

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Introduction

-Includes information detailing the purpose of the project including who their client is, their species of focus with the animals scientific name, and the environment where their focal animal lives.

-Provides a review of relevant information related to the behavior of their focal species to give their client ample background.

-Integrates relevant sources using in-text citations with full citations in the reference list at the end of the course project.

10 pts

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Methods

-Details how the video footage was analyzed. This includes the source of their footage, a timestamp of the 5 minutes observed (for pre-recorded footage) or the time/date of the footage (for livestream footage). -Includes the number of distinct behaviors observed during the analysis and lists the behavior chosen as the focal behavior to measure along with how the behavior was measured (duration or frequency).

-Integrates relevant sources using in-text citations with full citations in the reference list at the end of the course project.

10 pts

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Results

-Includes an ethogram that has a minimum of 5 behaviors, each with a behavioral definition, a photo illustrating the behavior, and assigned to a behavioral category.

-Includes the results of the video analysis with at least 1 graph illustrating the data.

-Integrates relevant sources using in-text citations with full citations in the reference list at the end of the course project.

10 pts

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Conclusion and Applications

-Summarizes and evaluates the findings from the footage analysis including potential ultimate and proximate causes of the behaviors and how the behavior may vary given different life experiences.-Includes a statement on animal welfare and applies this to provide a recommendation to the client to promote natural behavior in the animal species through an enrichment activity.

-Integrates relevant sources using in-text citations with full citations in the reference list at the end of the course project.

10 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome

References

A minimum of 6 scholarly sources is included in the project. All in proper APA format.

5 pts

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Report Quality

Case report is professionally written, clearly organized, written for a scientific audience and uses proper scientific terminology.

5 pts

Total Points: 55. APA 7th generation citations, the animal is the Giant panda