Evaluative Criteria for the Portfolio Seminar Analysis Statement
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When evaluating your Analysis Statement, Writing Arts faculty will be using the following two categories to assess your discussion of the core values (except 3 and 9).
For each category, the student:
And the student:
Explanation of Evaluative Criteria
Core Values When we value something, we allow that value to guide our actions and our thinking, and in the process of thinking and acting in ways guided by the value, we inevitably produce outcomes, or results, that indicate what we value. Values that organize and guide the way we see and respond to the world we call core values. Learning Outcomes Because Writing Arts faculty have designed assignments guided by the core values, your attempts to fulfill the objectives of each assignment will have led you to produce, to varying degrees, the learning outcomes that express a given core value. A learning outcome, then, is a result, or set of results you produce in response to an assignment, which can be linked back directly to a specific core value that guided your performance, even if you were not aware of the value guiding your performance at the time. Demonstrating a Thorough Understanding Whether or not you are successful in producing outcomes with excellence, for the purpose of the analysis statement, you are to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the core value as expressed in the learning outcomes you have produced in a given assignment in which the value (or values) guided your thinking and acting. To demonstrate means to show, which requires you to move well beyond merely telling the reader about what you did. And what you are to show your reader is the degree to which you understand the core value; the more thorough and complete your understanding of the core value is demonstrated—showing how you discovered for yourself what the core value means (revealing the meaning of the value in your reflective writing)—the more likely your performance will be assessed as “strong.” What does it mean to understand a core value thoroughly? To understand anything calls for you to discover for yourself that which “stands under” what you claim to know concerning the core value, and to explicitly reveal the connections you have created between your writing and what you claim to know. In other words, you need to make the words meaningful beyond simple dictionary definitions to demonstrate a thorough understanding. Integrating Portfolio Assignments Successfully Essential to demonstrating a through understanding of the core values and their learning outcomes is to use specific textual evidence from your five portfolio pieces. If you discuss the core value without drawing from specific examples of your own writing, or if you merely paraphrase, or re-present your work without revealing how you achieved (or failed to achieve) the learning outcomes of the core value in question, then you will have failed to integrate the portfolio piece. Assessment
The Writing Arts faculty will be assessing to what degree you have demonstrated this thorough understanding, and to what degree you have successfully integrated your portfolio papers, using the categories of "minimal or not at all"; "somewhat or unevenly"; or "strong": Minimal or not at all If you merely repeat the words by quoting the value, providing simplistic and generic definitions in your attempt to demonstrate your understanding of a core value, it may indicate some understanding, but failing to go further into an explicit treatment of the meaning of the core value and its key terms--that would leave you at the level of “minimal” or incomplete understanding. Strong On the other end of the spectrum, however, is thorough understanding, wherein your discussion reveals with explicit clarity that you have discovered for yourself what the core value--its key terms--means. Here you leave your reader with a sense that you have a complete understanding, and that this understanding is grounded in specific textual evidence drawn from your portfolio pieces. Keep in mind that a thorough understanding of the core value is possible for you to demonstrate even if the outcomes you produced (represented in your assignments included in the portfolio) are deficient in any way. Somewhat or Unevenly Between these two extremes would be some degree of understanding demonstrated in the writing of the analysis statement, however, perhaps you have only dealt with some aspects of the language of the core value and its outcomes, or the understanding you present reveals some gap in your having discovered the meaning of the value for yourself. Impact of peer-review on the overall grade
Peer review is required, that is, failing to participate fully in peer review will lower the final grade you receive from your advisor:
For instance, failing to keep your word in the matter of peer-review--failing to upload your draft within 24 hours of receiving the email that places you into a group, or if you upload a partial draft, are late getting feedback to your group members, or offer minimal and/or superficial comments--that means you are not participating fully.
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PORTFOLIO SEMINAR ANALYSIS STATEMENT RUBRIC
The Analysis Statement
Core Values and Learning Outcomes
Questions Concerning Core Values
PS AS Peer Group Instructions
Portfolio Contents and Uploading Hints
Checklist for Portfolio Seminar
Holistic Grading Rubric for Portfolio Seminar
Commonly Asked Questions about Portfolio Seminar
By Students
By Instructors
Core Values and Learning Outcomes
Questions Concerning Core Values
PS AS Peer Group Instructions
Portfolio Contents and Uploading Hints
Checklist for Portfolio Seminar
Holistic Grading Rubric for Portfolio Seminar
Commonly Asked Questions about Portfolio Seminar
By Students
By Instructors