Table 1.

Reflective Rubric

Category	The student identifies:	Level 5	Level 4	Level 3	Level 2	Level 1
A	Significant events from course that led to reflection	Skillfully details precise accounts of important events	Several events are accurately logged in detail	Attempts to outline in some detail one activity	Generally describes the entire scope of the class without specific detail	Does not select and summarize activities that have transpired
B	Information/Skills acquired from course	Demonstrates in depth understanding of skills	Demonstrates a thoughtful awareness of skills	Demonstrates a rudimentary awareness of some skills practiced	Demonstrates a limited awareness of few skills/strategies practiced throughout the year	Demonstrates little to no awareness of skills targeted
C	Personal abilities	Demonstrates ability to list all strengths and weaknesses and provide a plan for amelioration	Demonstrates ability to list some strengths and weaknesses	Demonstrates ability to list at least one strength and one weakness	Demonstrates ability to recognize personal strengths but not weakness	Does not demonstrate ability to see personal strengths or weaknesses
D	Personal learning style	A concise recognition of learning requirements and ways to facilitate future learning is identified	Recognizes a preferred learning style and compares it to teaching style employed in class	Recognizes preferred learning style	Indicates a preference of one activity from class over another	No evidence of recognition is made
E	Connections between the course and past life experiences	Connections are explored in great precision and detail	Connections are made and casually discussed	Connections are recognized but are ineffective	Limited connections to nonspecific, theoretical aspects of life are discussed	No evidence of connections are made
F	Oneself in relation to the situation (emotions, values, beliefs, etc.)	Writing reveals a well-developed emotional and personalized relationship to the specific context, enhanced with specific examples	Writing reveals a strong connection between the event and the writer accompanied by few general reflections	Both general and personal insight are present, further exploration is required	Generalizations used to explore topics of discussion with 1-2 references to self	Employs no 'self' into writing; uses only obvious statements without contextual references
G	Future applications in a broadened spectrum	Explicit details of precise aspects of course load and relates them to specific anticipatory future events	Recognition of few precise important facets of course load expanded to broad future goals	Generalized discussion of possible future implications is discussed is some detail	Future applications of an aspect of the course are mentioned in passing without detail	No future applications of class materials are discussed