Assessment Rubric Constituency: Students

Category/Standard
Stage 1
(knowledge)
Stage 2
(comprehension)
Stage 3
(analysis)
Stage 4
(synthesis)
Sense of responsibility
to the community
   Students exhibit
  awareness of the extent of community problem 
Students exhibit
awareness of community
resources and standards
of success 
Students exhibit engaged, 
personally active involvement
in the issue and play an
active role in problem solution 
 Students take on the
cause actively by
  involving others in their
 engagement; students
 exhibit a change in attitude and behavior
  Level of participation  The minimum class   requirements are fulfilled (i.e. number of   hours, reflection requirements, required  products) without active engagment Students are more
actively engaged with
others at the site 
(staff  and/or service   recipients) 
Students seek to integrate 
their service with their leaming; 
they are seeking additional 
information and are  engaged 
in critical  thinking

  Students exceed course requirements; they exhibit    comprehensive  interaction and   participation with others at the site and recruit others
 Integration of service-leaming and curriculum  Students demonstrate  factual knowledge of the     subject (meet course  including its origins, goals)  Students understand the
problems and issues on 
a personal level 
Students recognize the 
ramifications of the 
problems and understand 
the issues as they relate  to "community." 
Students are able to   synthesize the subject,  including its origins,causes, and ramifications.
 Change in attitude  Students exhibit awareness of their own personal attitudes toward  the subject  Students acknowledge
that there are other 
attitudes towards the subject
Students are willing to 
be open to challenging 
their own ideas and beliefs; 
they are willing to listen to the opinions of others.
Students demonstrate theability to integrate other  information and ideas   to their own schema
 Rubric developers: Patricia Kalata, Cindy Epperson, Sara Harrison, and Kathy Hennessy

9th National Conference, May 23, 2000 Preconference Workshop: Evaluation and Assessment: Designing a Self-Assessment Rubric for  Service Learning;
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