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Service Learning

Service learning is a method that combines academic instruction, meaningful service, and critical reflective thinking to enhance student learning and civic responsibility. Use this rubric to evaluate your progress during your service learning project and once you've completed it.

Rubric Code: XX27954

By cherylzeebee

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Subject: (General)

Type: (Other)

Grade Levels: Undergraduate

Service Learning Goals
	Strong Impact 4 pts	Good Impact 3 pts	Some Impact 2 pts	Minimal Impact 1 pts
Community Need This activity meets an actual need in the community and is coordinated through collaboration with the community	Strong Impact Determined by or discovered through extensive research and collaboration with faculty advisor and community sponsor	Good Impact Determined or discovered through basic research and collaboration with faculty advisor and community sponsor.	Some Impact Determined by making a guess as to what the community needs may be.<BR> No collaboration with faculty advisor or community sponsor.	Minimal Impact Community needs secondary to what student wants to do. Project considers only student needs. No collaboration
Student Reflection This activity will provide students an opportunity to reflect upon their own learning and their role in society.	Strong Impact Students actively reflect on their learning and think, share, and produce relective products based upon those reflections.	Good Impact Student reflection provides basic insight into their learning. Students produce minimal reflective products based upon those reflections.	Some Impact Student share minimal reflection on service learning and produce no individual reflection projects.	Minimal Impact No time given for true active reflection. Student provided only a summary of events.
Developing a sense of caring This activity will provide the student with the opportunity to develop a sense of caring for and about others.	Strong Impact Reflections show deep personal understanding of the importance of service in student's ability to make a difference. Student will likely take the initiative to serve again.	Good Impact Reflections show growing understanding of the importance of service in student's ability to make a difference. Student may serve again.	Some Impact Reflections show limited understanding of the importance of service. Student may serve again if asked.	Minimal Impact Reflections show student largely unaffected by the importance of service. Student is unlikely to serve again.
Quality of life This activity will provide the student the opportunity to enhance the quality of life for those individuals served.	Strong Impact Service activity facilitates change or insight, helps solve a problem, meet a need or address an issue in community served.	Good Impact Service activity provides some change or insight. Service enhances an already good community situation.	Some Impact Service mainly decorative, but activity provides some benefit to community served.	Minimal Impact Service mainly decorative, but service provides limited community benefit or does not offer any new or unique opportunity.
Presentation Skills Sharing your story and experience with the class.	Strong Impact Student is completely prepared and has obviously rehearsed. Speaks clearly. Stands up straight, looks relaxed and confident. Facial expressions and body language generate a strong interest and enthusiasm. Volume is loud enough.	Good Impact Student seems pretty prepared but might have needed a couple more rehearsals. Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) the time, but mispronounces one word. Stands up straight and establishes eye contact with everyone in the room during the presentation. Facial expressions and body language sometimes generate a strong interest and enthusiasm. Volume is loud enough to be heard by all audience members at least 90% of the time.	Some Impact The student is somewhat prepared, but it is clear that rehearsal was lacking. Speaks clearly and distinctly most ( 94-85%) of the time. Mispronounces no more than one word. Sometimes stands up straight and establishes eye contact. Facial expressions and body language are used to try to generate enthusiasm. Volume is loud enough to be heard by all audience members at least 80% of the time.	Minimal Impact Student does not seem at all prepared to present. Often mumbles or can not be understood or mispronounces more than one word. Slouches and/or does not look at people during the presentation. Very little use of facial expressions or body language. Volume often too soft to be heard by all audience members.
Research	Strong Impact Has sourced at least 2 library resources (1 from special collections) and 3 other resources (1 is your quote).	Good Impact Has sourced at least 2 library resources ( 1 from special collections) and 2 other resources (1 is your quote).	Some Impact Has sourced at least 1 library resources and 2 other resources	Minimal Impact Has not sourced any library resources.

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