Group 4 - Friday Afternoon Assessment Brainstorming Session

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Stephanie Freeman, Julie Martin, Maureen Padden, (Dave Mogk)

General Notes:
- Stephanie developing a rain garden on and off campus
- concept sketch
- student presentation to campus community to larger community- shows that the students have mastered the information information well enough to convey these ideas

Maureen
full semester service learning course; internship credit with places in the community
- posters, presentations, written work
- reflection papers (what defines a 'good' reflection paper?);
- reflective journaling - students assess themselves, metacognition- self monitoring, students identify the problems they faced; can give credit for completing the journal or have an evaluation scale; SERC website has a resource

Julie
Large class (140) service learning assessment
- replacing the Exam with service learning report
- community posters

Assessment questions:
How do you use reflective papers? Opinion based? How do you make it fair and not biased?
- create a clear marking system, make this marking system clear to the students
- emphasize informed use of evidence; well-formed arguments


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