VUSM 100: Learning Outcomes, Final Assignment, and Rubric (6.2014)
The final assignment in Franciscan Values and Traditions measures how well students have met
the now three learning outcomes of the course.
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2.
3.
Students will compare, contrast, and analyze Franciscan values, Viterbo core values, and disciplinary values.
Students will compare and contrast their personal values to Franciscan, Viterbo, and disciplinary values.
Students will compare and contrast their own personal values to the values of other people.
On your assignment sheet please ask that your students answer these questions in their paper.
You may ask them to explicitly create these sections in their papers.
Part 1
A.
Analyzing Franciscan Values
1. Identify one or two Franciscan values.
2. What makes these values Franciscan?
3. How are these values evident in the biography of Francis?
B.
Analyzing Viterbo Core Values
1. Identify and define the five Viterbo core values.
2. How can you illustrate one of these values?
3. What features does one of these values include?
4. How do these features relate to one another?
C.
Explaining Disciplinary Perspective and Values
1. What defines the disciplinary perspective of this section?
2. How do the major questions and methods of this discipline reflect what values this discipline
assumes are important?
Part 2
D.
Explaining Personal Values
1. Identify your core personal values.
2. Where and how did your values originate?
3. How did your values develop?
4. How have they been tested?
E.
Explaining Others’ Personal Values
1. Identify some ways that people differ in their personal values.
2. What illustrates those differences?
3. What might account for those differences?
Part 3
F.
Comparing Values
1. What evidence illustrates the comparison and contrast between one or two of your values and
the values of other people?
2. Where and how do one or two of your own values align with Franciscan, Viterbo, and
disciplinary values? Where and how do your values differ?
Your section-specific final paper assignment should
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Ask students to write 6-8 pages, excluding bibliography
Comprise 20% of the final course grade
Require students to cite the common FVT text: Galli, Francis of Assisi and His World
Require students to cite other required texts and materials of the particular section/course
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VUSM 100 Final Assignment Rubric, 2014-2015
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Outcome
Ethical
reasoning and
moral
development
Criteria
Franciscan
Values
No set list or
number
Ethical reasoning
and moral
development
Viterbo Core
Values
Ethical reasoning
and moral
development
Personal
Core Values
Social Justice
Comparing
Values
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Contemplation
Hospitality
Integrity
Stewardship
Service
0-1
Refers to
biography but
omits claims
of values
Names all 5
Viterbo core
values
Implies at
least one
personal core
value
Benchmark
1
Names and
defines one or
two values that
might be
Franciscan
Novice
2
Names and defines
one or two values as
Franciscan, e.g.,
through the Francis
biography.
Apprentice
3
Names, defines, and
explains one or two
values as Franciscan,
e.g., through the
Francis biography.
Proficient
4
Names, defines, and
explains one or two
values as Franciscan,
e.g., through the
Francis biography.
Begins to explain the
development of
values.
Names and
Names and defines all Names and defines all 5 Names and defines all
defines all 5
5 Viterbo core values
Viterbo core values and 5 Viterbo core values
Viterbo core
and illustrates at least illustrates and analyzes and illustrates,
values
one of them.
at least one of them.
analyzes, and
evaluates at least one
of them.
Names and
Names, defines, and
Names, defines, and
Names, defines, and
defines at least
explains the origins
explains the origins and explains at least one
one personal core and development of at development of at least personal core value.
value or names
least one personal core one personal core
Applies at least one
origins of core
value
value. Begins to apply
personal core value to
values
at least one personal
the section’s
core value to the
disciplinary content
section’s disciplinary
and perspective
content
Assumes one set Recognizes different
Acknowledges different Acknowledges
of values fits or
values in other people values in other people
different values in
should fit all
and shows some
and begins to
other people and
people.
curiosity about those
demonstrate what can
demonstrates what has
differences.
be learned from that
been learned from that
difference.
difference.
Integrative
Learning
Communication
Independent of
documentation
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Integrative
Learning
Implies
disciplinary
perspective
Acknowledges
that the
disciplinary
perspective
relates to
Franciscan,
Viterbo, and/or
personal values
Describes how the
disciplinary
perspective relates to
Franciscan, Viterbo,
and/or personal values
Begins to analyze how
the disciplinary
perspective relates to
Franciscan, Viterbo,
and/or personal values
Never to
Rarely to
Occasionally to
Sometimes to mostly
Written
occasionally uses sometimes uses
uses appropriate and
Communicati rarely uses
appropriate and
appropriate and
relevant evidence to
on Content appropriate
and relevant
relevant evidence relevant evidence to
support claims
evidence to
to support claims support claims
support
claims
(Highlighted color indicates targets for the Franciscan Values and Traditions course)
Evaluates how well
the disciplinary
perspective relates to
Franciscan, Viterbo,
and/or personal values
Mostly to always uses
appropriate and
relevant evidence to
support claims