Midterm Assessment

Core Competencies

This midterm assessment asks you to seriously reflect on your growth as a learner.  What are your strengths?  Where are you in your learning?  What proof do you have?  Where are you going?  What are your learning goals?

The core competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, social and emotional proficiencies that all students need to develop in order to engage in deep and life-long learning.  They have been identified and categorized as follows:     You have completed work in the Communication and Thinking Competencies so far in the course.

Communication

The communication competency encompasses the set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences, and ideas to explore the world around them and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media.  The following profile illustrates four interrelated abilities that are involved in effective communication.  

Consider each of these abilities.  Is there one that stands out to you?  Do you see an ability here where you feel you can demonstrate strength or growth?

Communication: Sample "I" Statements

These are the"I can" statements for the four inter-related abilities within the Communications competency. "I" statements indicate that a student can demonstrate proficiency in that ability. 

Which ones can you do?  Pick out a couple of them now.

Communication Question Prompts

Consider the following questions as you reflect on your abilities in Communication.  You can choose to use just one to guide your self-assessment in this area.  

1.  Describe a form of communication you are proud of?  What would you like others to notice about it?

2.  Describe ways that you contribute to discussion.

3.  Explain what you do when you disagree with someone in your group.  How did you learn this strategy?

4.  Describe how you share ideas and questions.

Thinking

The Thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development and is demonstrated through:

• creative thinking

• critical thinking

The following profiles illustrate six interrelated abilities that are involved in creative and critical thinking.

Consider each of these abilities.  Is there one that stands out to you?  Do you see an ability here where you feel you can demonstrate strength or growth?

Creative Thinking: Sample I Statements

These are the "I can" statements for the three inter-related abilities within the Creative Thinking component of the Thinking competency. "I" statements indicate that a student can demonstrate proficiency in that ability.  Which ones can you do?  Pick out a couple of them now.

Critical Thinking: Sample I Statements

These are the "I can" statements for the three inter-related abilities within the Critical Thinking component of the Thinking competency. "I" statements indicate that a student can demonstrate proficiency in that ability.  

Which ones can you do?  Pick out a couple of them now.

Thinking Question Prompts

Consider the following questions as you reflect on your abilities in Thinking.  You can choose to use just one to guide your self-assessment in this area.  

Creative Thinking

1. What strategies do you use when you want to generate ideas?  How do you develop ideas?

2. Talk about something you designed.  If you did it all over again, what adjustments would you make?

Critical Thinking

1. Describe a problem that you solved.  What choices did you make that made a difference to the outcome of the problem?

2. What strategies do you use to determine the truth about what you're reading on a social media site?

3. When you are curious, how do you find answers?

Midterm Assessment Assignment

Now that you have read the "I can" statements for the Communication and Thinking competencies and reflected on your abilities, it's time to show your growth as a learner.

ASSIGNMENT:  Choose one of the Question Prompts in each competency and respond on the templates provided.  You can also view a student sample for each of the templates.  There are many formats of self-assessment.

You will submit 2 forms for this assessment.  One is on your abilities/growth as a learner in the Communication competency and one is on your abilities/growth as a learner in the Thinking competency.  You can use images, video, etc. to discuss what you have learned.  Consider what skills and processes you have developed in relation to the communication and thinking competencies.  How might you show this growth?  In what ways might you further develop your skills?