Form for Self-Assessment in COMM150
The Process Essay with the remainder of the Portfolio is due in hardcopy during the Lab on the following dates: |
Monday July 26 |
The College asks students to evaluate their performance in a succinct manner. Remember: You are assessing your own performance and learning in the Student Self Assessment form.
1. Summarize your learning in doing the research about specializations in your degree area, and in your writing for the Portfolio.
2. Provide examples of new things you learned.
Your self-assessment and reflection are High level, when your comments are “concise” and “meaningful.” Your reflection is Low level, if it is “incomplete” and/or not provided with the portfolio. Thoughtfulness and honesty are HIGHLY evaluated. (The rubric for English & Presentation contains the criteria with which the self-assessment is evaluated.) .
How to Evaluate your Performance
With the Categories Recommended by the College
o Look at the Student Self-Assessment form on the last page of the current handout. Start your reflection on the research and portfolio experience by recording your observations in the blank form on the next page. Look at the instructor’s tips below for how you might respond to each Performance Category.
Evaluate yourself with the Performance Categories in the Left column. The questions in the Right column of the following table will guide you in commenting about your work. Provide your comments in the blank, Right column of the form on page three.
Performance categories: | Questions which will help you comment in each self-assessment category: |
Information Literacy | How did you perform in the information literacy process? Consider the following procedures in preparing a research topic and research strategy -- Focusing on two career specializations in the Narrative Essay and on one specialization in the Descriptive Essay; searching with appropriate keywords, strings, and Boolean operators; finding relevant articles in the databases, and finding relevant Web sites; evaluating your sources; and using and crediting the sources in the essays. |
Written and Oral Communication | What did you learn about composing an essay, and documenting your findings according to the APA standard? Did you learn about some grammatical errors, which you fall into? Are you ready to summarize your experience with the Portfolio for your classmates and instructor in the Oral Presentation in the last class? |
Technical | Were you able to use efficiently your computer station, Microsoft Office Word, the campus network drives, the course Web page, and a storage device on which you may have transported your files? |
Interpersonal | Did you help someone, or welcome any help, in regard to your research and writing activities? Did you seek advice from the staff of Pathways, from the service of SmarThinking, or from the instructor? |
Critical Thinking | How did you go about selecting articles with the greatest relevance and quality in the EBSCO databases for your Narrative Essay? Which criteria for evaluating information sources (Accuracy, Authoritativeness, Objectivity, Currency, & Coverage) did you use in evaluating Web sites? |
Technology and Information Systems | How easily did you navigate through the resources in the Virtual Library, such as the collections of databases? How easily could you use search technologies (Boolean operators, search strings, special searching procedures) for resources in the databases and on the Internet? Did your search skills improve? Did you make good use of a portable storage device for your files? |
Ethics | Did you develop an ability to credit (cite) the sources from which you obtained information? Is it easy or hard for you to paraphrase? Was it difficult to be cautious about plagiarism? |
Aesthetics | Did you find it easy to organize the pages of your essays with double-spacing, headers, consistent margins, section headings, and other features of an APA formatted page? How did the process go in assembling the materials for a neat-looking portfolio? |
Lifelong learning | What new understanding of possible career specializations, sources for research, and search techniques did you acquire? Could you use any writing and research procedures in COMM150 for research or presentations in subsequent classes, in the workplace, and for personal interests? |
Lessons Learned: Portfolio Summary | How would you summarize in 1 - 2 sentences your overall experience and learning through the phases of the Portfolio project? |
Ready?
Type Your Self-Assessment on a Blank Digital-Copy of the Student Self-Assessment Form
Fill-out the self-assessment form with typed responses so that your assessment looks more professional than a handwritten copy.
Copy the empty table on the next page into a new file, which you create. You can follow these steps to do so:
o Start an empty document in MS Word at your station, and save it with a filename like “assessment”; then minimize the blank document to the tray at the bottom of the screen;
o Find the electronic version of the current handout, _self_assessment_form BLANK,” on the data-file drive In the campus network, or on the course Web page;
o Pass your cursor over the upper Left corner of the table until you see a handle for the table appear;
o Right-click on top of the handle in order to bring-up a context menu in which you select “Copy”;
o After selecting “Copy,” you can minimize the current handout to your system tray;
o Maximize your empty MS Word document from your system tray;
o Paste the table with the blank self-assessment form into your new empty document.
o Save again the document on which you just pasted the assessment form.
o Begin typing your responses on the Left margin of the row for each Performance Category.
o OR, just fill it in and print it.
Type your responses neatly (left-aligned) in the rows of the following table. The instructor will recommend an automatic way to left-align sentences that you type into the rows.
Performance Category | Student Self-Assessment Form Complete this self-assessment template with brief comments and specific  examples. Submit the completed form as the last item in the Portfolio. Along this margin, left-align your typed comments in each row. |
Information Literacy | |
Written and Oral Communication | |
Technical | |
Interpersonal | |
Critical Thinking | |
Technology and Information Systems | |
Ethics | |
Aesthetics | |
Lifelong learning | |
Lessons Learned -- Portfolio Summary |
