Distinguished - Identifies one’s work-content skills and thoroughly explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is fully supported with specific examples.

Proficient - Identifies one’s work-content skills and explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is supported with specific examples, but minor details are missing.

Basic - Identifies one’s work-content skills and somewhat explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is partially supported with specific examples and/or relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Identifies one’s work-content skills; however, limited explanation is given for how they can help in a current or future career and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The identification of one’s work-content skills and explanation of how they can help in a current or future career are either nonexistent or lack the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Identifies one’s personal attributes and thoroughly explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is fully supported with specific examples.

Proficient - Identifies one’s personal attributes and explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is supported with specific examples, but minor details are missing.

Basic - Identifies one’s personal attributes and minimally explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is partially supported with specific examples and/or relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Identifies one’s personal attributes; however, limited explanation is given for how they can help in a current or future career and significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The identification of one’s personal attributes and explanation of how they can help in a current or future career are either nonexistent or lack the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Identifies one’s technology skills and thoroughly explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is fully supported with specific examples.

Proficient - Identifies one’s technology skills and explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is supported with specific examples, but minor details are missing.

Basic - Identifies one’s technology skills and minimally explains how they can help in a current or future career. The explanation is partially supported with specific examples and relevant details are missing.

Below Expectations - Identifies one’s technology skills; however, limited explanation is given for how they can help in a current or future career and/or significant details are missing.

Non-Performance - The identification of one’s personal attributes and explanation of how they can help in a current or future career are either nonexistent or lack the components described in the assignment instructions.

Distinguished - Creates meaningful correlations among experiences outside of the classroom to demonstrate an understanding of the given field of study and to broaden one's own viewpoints.

Proficient - Compares life experiences and academic knowledge to distinguish differences and similarities while acknowledging perspectives other than one's own.

Basic - Recognizes correlations between life experiences, academic texts, and ideas perceived as similar and related to one's own interests.

Below Expectations - Briefly comments about the connections between one's life experiences and academic texts.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Assesses changes in one's own learning over time, recognizing varied contextual factors (e.g., works with ambiguity and risk, deals with frustration, considers ethical frameworks).

Proficient - Effectively assesses strengths and challenges within specific performances or events to increase effectiveness in different contexts (through increased self-awareness).

Basic - Assesses one's own performances with general descriptions of success and failure.

Below Expectations - Unsuccessfully assesses one's own performances with general descriptors of success and failure.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand.

Proficient - Displays comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains only a few minor errors and is mostly easy to understand.

Basic - Displays basic comprehension of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains a few errors which may slightly distract the reader.

Below Expectations - Fails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which distract the reader.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - Accurately uses APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title page, and reference page.

Proficient - Exhibits APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout contains a few minor errors. 

Basic - Exhibits limited knowledge of APA formatting throughout the paper. However, layout does not meet all APA requirements. 

Below Expectations - Fails to exhibit basic knowledge of APA formatting. There are frequent errors, making the layout difficult to distinguish as APA.

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.

Distinguished - The length of the paper is equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Proficient - The length of the paper is nearly equivalent to the required number of correctly formatted pages. 

Basic - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least three quarters of the required number of correctly formatted pages.

Below Expectations - The length of the paper is equivalent to at least one half of the required number of correctly formatted pages.   

Non-Performance - The assignment is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the instructions.