Rubric for Service Learning Project
GGC 1000
Fall 2007
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 develop three personal objectives for your service learning project. Refer to it once
you have completed your project.
Project
Objectives
Understand
service learning
and use new
skills/knowledge
in real world
settings.
Strong Impact
4
Student demonstrates
high level of
understanding of service
learning and
experiences direct
application of new skills
or knowledge in
community service.
Develop a sense Shows deep personal
of civic
understanding of the
responsibility
importance of service to
and commitment the community and
to the
ability to make a
community.
difference. Facilitates
change or insight; helps
alleviate a suffering;
solves a problem; meets
a need or addresses an
issue; likely to take the
initiative to serve again.
Meets student
All three student
stated objectives objectives are met and
Good Impact
3
Student has some
understanding of
service learning and
active application of
new skill or knowledge
in community service.
Some Impact
2
Student has limited
understanding of service
learning; some
involvement in
community service.
Minimal Impact
1-0
Student does not understand
service learning and has not
experienced involvement in
community service.
Shows growing
understanding of the
importance of service
to the community and
ability to make a
difference. Facilitates
change to enhance an
already good situation;
likely to serve again if
asked.
Shows limited
understanding of the
importance of service to
the community or civic
responsibility; any
resulting change mainly
decorative; may serve
again if asked.
Shows no or limited sense of
the importance of service to
the community and ability to
make a difference, unlikely
to serve again.
All three student
objective are met and
Not all student objectives
are met and student
One or none of the student
objectives are met and
student demonstrates
improved self
confidence; sense of
usefulness; openness to
new experiences; sense
of responsibility to the
community; self
motivation; comfort in
new settings; improved
communication with
others and ability to
solve problems
student
demonstrates some
improved self
confidence; some sense
of usefulness; some
openness to new
experiences; some
sense of responsibility
to the community;
some degree of self
motivation and comfort
in new settings; a
degree of improvement
in communication with
others and ability to
solve problems
demonstrates limited
improvement in self
confidence and sense of
usefulness; limited
willingness to participate
in new experiences;
limited sense of
responsibility to the
community, limited
degree of self motivation
and comfort in new
settings; limited degree
in improvement in
communication with
others and ability to solve
problems.
student demonstrates little or
no improvement in self
confidence, in sense of
usefulness, in willingness to
participate in new
experiences, in sense of
responsibility to the
community, degree of self
motivation or improvement
in communication with
others and ability to solve
problems.