Service-Learning Post-Project Reflection Rubric (Fall 2015)
Question
Statement of the Need/Activities:
1)What was the name of your
community partner?
2)What community need did your
service-learning project address?
3)Describe the service-learning activities
you engaged in to address this need.
4)Did your activities have an impact?
How do you know?
Academic/Applied Learning:
1)Describe 3-5 course concepts you
learned in your course that relate to
your service-learning project. [Instructor
should specify them.]
2)How did you observe/use/apply these
course concepts in your project?
3)Explain how your activities helped you
understand these course concepts
better.
Civic Engagement:
1)Do you believe more people should
care about the need (issue) your project
addressed? Why/Why not?
2)Discuss possible solutions to the need
(issue) your project addressed.
3)What do you see yourself doing in the
future connected to this need (issue)?
Workplace Skills:
1)List the workplace skills you used in
this project and describe how you
applied these skills in your project.
2)Which workplace skills did you
improve most through this project?
Provide an example.
3)Name 1-2 challenges that you faced
during the project and describe how you
addressed them.
4
Skillfully explains all of
these: the community
need, the student’s
service-learning
activities AND evidence
for whether the
activities had an impact.
3
Adequately explains all of
these: the community
need, the student’s
service-learning activities
AND evidence for
whether the activities
had an impact.
2
Explains well some of
these: the community
need, the student’s
service-learning activities
OR evidence for whether
the activities had an
impact.
1
Provides statements,
without explanation, about
some of these: the
community need, the
student’s service-learning
activities OR evidence for
whether the activities had
an impact.
0
Does not
meet
level 1
performance
Skillfully explains all of
these: course concepts
that related to the
project, how they
related, AND how the
project helped with
understanding of the
concepts.
Adequately explains all of
these: course concepts
that related to the
project, how they
related, AND how the
project helped with
understanding of the
concepts.
Explains well some of
these: course concepts
that related to the
project, how they
related, OR how the
project helped with
understanding of the
concepts.
Provides statements,
without explanation, about
some of these: course
concepts that related to
the project, how they
related, OR how the
project helped with
understanding of the
concepts.
Does not
meet
level 1
performance
Skillfully explains all of
these: why people
should care about the
issue and possible ways
to address the issue.
Presents a welldeveloped vision of the
self as engaged with the
issue.
Identifies at least one
workplace skill and
skillfully explains how it
was applied. Uses an
example to illustrate
how at least one skill
improved. Skillfully
describes at least one
challenge and how
he/she addressed it.
Adequately explains all of
these: why people
should care about the
issue and possible ways
to address the issue.
Presents general ideas of
how the self can be
engaged with the issue.
Explains well some of
these: why people
should care about the
issue, possible ways to
address the issue OR
ideas of how the self
might engage with the
issue.
Provides statements,
without explanation, about
some of these: why people
should care about the
issue, possible ways to
address the issue OR how
the self might engage with
the issue.
Does not
meet
level 1
performance
Identifies at least one
workplace skill and
adequately explains how
it was applied. Uses an
example to illustrate how
at least one skill
improved. Adequately
describes at least one
challenge and how
he/she addressed it.
Explains well some of
these: Identifies at least
one workplace skill and
explains how it was
applied, uses an example
to illustrate how at least
one skill improved, OR
identifies at least one
challenge and how
he/she addressed it.
Provides statements,
without explanation, about
some of these: Identifies
at least one workplace skill
that was applied, identifies
at least one skill that
improved, OR identifies at
least one challenge and
conveys whether it was
addressed.
Does not
meet
level 1
performance