AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes Meta-Rubrics
AAC&U staff, in conjunction with teams of faculty and administrators from around the country, in an iterative process over eigteen months, gathered, analyzed, and synthesized rubrics (and similar materials) for each of the AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes in order to create "metarubrics". Each metarubric represents a carefully considered summary of criteria widely considered critical to judging the quality of student work in that outcome area. AAC&U invites individual St. Olaf faculty members and departments to try out these rubrics for course-level or program-level assessment.
FALL 2008 VALUE initiative overview
Below is a list of AAC&U outcomes for which 15 meta-rubrics have
been developed.
(on-campus users only)
Intellectual and Practical Skills
- Inquiry and analysis (pdf)
- Critical thinking (pdf)
- Creative thinking (pdf)
- Written communication (pdf)
- Oral communication (pdf)
- Reading (pdf)
- Quantitative literacy (pdf)
- Information literacy (pdf)
- Teamwork (pdf)
- Problem solving (pdf)
Personal and Social Responsibility
- Civic knowledge and engagement—local and global (pdf)
- Intercultural knowledge and competence (pdf)
- Ethical reasoning and action (pdf)
- Foundations and skills for lifelong learning (pdf)
Integrative Learning
- Integrative learning (pdf)
Reprinted with permission from www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/.
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