{"id":23,"date":"2015-05-31T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T05:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifecentered.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2015-05-31T00:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T05:40:43","slug":"active-learning-rubric","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"Active Learning Rubric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #4789c8; font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Rubrics from the Instructor and Student Perspectives\r\n<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small;\">Source: Dr. Cy Leise, Professor of Psychology, Bellevue University<\/span><\/p>\r\n<strong>LEVEL 5<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Transformational Instructor<\/strong>\r\n<b>Uses learning challenges and facilitation methods\r\nthat result in life change in learners.\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Designs curriculum on the basis of \u201cmeta-strategies\u201d that enable learners to perceive entirely new learning paradigms.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners establish and meet their own standards at unusually high performance levels.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners are sought out by other students for mentoring on how to \u201clearn\u2013to-learn.\u201d<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners seek out and assess models, strategies, and theories that extend their range of application of knowledge.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners independently assess the generalizability of their knowledge and skills for many life contexts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Transformed Student<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Sets personal challenges that result in\r\nsignificant life change or growth.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Commits to \u201cuniversal\u201d learning challenges stated or implied in any well-designed curriculum.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Establishes and meets own standards at unusually high performance levels.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Views the world at a mature adult development level; tackles life\u2019s inconsistencies.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Assesses the validity of resources, tools, and models for each learning challenge or context.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Independently assesses the generalizability of competencies for many life contexts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>LEVEL 4<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Enriching Instructor\r\n<\/strong><strong>Moves learners to explore knowledge\r\napplications beyond expectations.\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Curriculum is soundly organized around higher-order goals and\u00a0processes.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners are able to assess their benchmarks and to independently challenge themselves.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Incorporates individual differences to increase all students\u2019 awareness of the variations in valid strategies for achieving outcomes.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learners assess resources, tools, and models for validity in given contexts.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Produces learners able to identify and improve lower levels skills related to higher-level goals.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Enriched <\/strong><strong>Student<\/strong><strong>\r\n<\/strong><b>Actively explores how to use knowledge for applications of personal interest; performs beyond expectations.\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Commits most to curricula organized around higher-order processes related to personal goals.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Sets and assesses own benchmarks and challenges.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Views individual differences, of self and others, as a creative resource.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Assesses the validity of resources, tools, and models for each learning challenge or context.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Explores, for multiple competencies, how lower level skills are related to higher-level skills.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>LEVEL 3<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Engaging Instructor\r\n<\/strong><b>Consistently produces active learners who can self-assess performance against standards.<\/b><em>\r\n<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Curriculum design includes clear outcomes, learning processes, measures, and standards.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Uses facilitation to effectively increase learner confidence that assessment raises performance.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Facilitates individual inclusion of learning style issues in self-assessments of performance.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Selects resources to provide information, theories, models, and examples that will support learning outcomes in varied ways.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Curriculum is based on careful analysis of supporting skills in order to design activities that lead to transfer of sills to similar contexts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Engaged <\/strong><strong>Student<\/strong><strong>\r\n<\/strong><strong>Active learner who can self-assess\r\nperformance against standard<\/strong><strong>s.\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Commits strongly to curricula designed with well-defined outcomes, learning processes, measures, and\u00a0standards.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Accepts \u201cownership\u201d of learning based on confidence that assessment predictably raises performance.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Includes personal learning style and attitudes in assessment of strengths, areas of\u00a0 improvement, and insights relevant to improving performance.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Selects resources such as\u00a0 information, theories, models, and examples that will support learning outcomes in varied or flexible ways.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Focuses on building strong foundations across all learning domains as the best way to achieve predictable transfer and generalization of skills to real life contexts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>LEVEL 2<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Conventional Instructor<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Manages learning by clearly defining outcomes;\r\ndiscounts the value of facilitation of learning processes.\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Describes curriculum outcomes in terms of products; unstated standards, or open to interpretation.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Support of learning processes is limited to tutoring, reviews, and grading.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Provides evaluative feedback plus encouragement and assistance related to learning styles.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Resources are provided to support each learning outcome in varied ways.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Aware of the range of lower levels skills but can\u2019t always connect these to more complex goals.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Conventional <\/strong><strong>Student<\/strong><strong>\r\nManages learning by focusing on outcomes;\r\nlimited in awareness of personal potential.\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Focuses effort on finishing assignments; adjusts to fit unclear or unstated standards.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Constrained by an assumption that individuals have learning limitations that cannot be changed.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Relies upon\u00a0instructor flexibility in helping to compensate for barriers related to learning style.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Sees use of recommended resources as an extra burden; has limited awareness of connections between resources and learning processes.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Aware of many skills but not of their relative levels of difficulty or roles as prerequisites.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>LEVEL 1<\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Risk Averse Instruct<\/strong><strong>or\r\n<\/strong><b>Avoids change; discounts the value of assessment of teaching strategies or of supporting learning processes.<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Bases curriculum on assignments related to a specific text.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Views learning only in terms of memorization of facts, theories, and procedures.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Views variations in learning style, personality, and learner goals as student problems.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Views supplemental resources, as well as text reading, as assignments.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>The main goal is to present lower level knowledge; assume transfer is unlikely until a job or other future challenge is experienced.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Risk Averse <\/strong><strong>Student\r\n<\/strong><strong>Grade-oriented; concerned about meeting\r\nrequirements efficiently.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Seeks the easiest and simplest solution to getting the\u00a0 grade expected.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Considers learning a problem that\u00a0 is controlled entirely by the instructor and\/or by other external influences.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Unaware of variations in learning style, personality, and learner goals.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Uses resources only as specifically prescribed for each assignment.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Thinks of learning only in terms of factual knowledge; unaware of varied uses of knowledge.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubrics from the Instructor and Student Perspectives Source: Dr. Cy Leise, Professor of Psychology, Bellevue University LEVEL 5 Transformational Instructor Uses learning challenges and facilitation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifecentered.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}