Students demonstrate their ability to apply what they know by performing it. The Paper Prospectus prompts students to thin through elements of the assignment, such as the topic, purpose, intended audience, major questions to be answered, basic organization, and time and resources required. The Project Prospectus focuses on tasks to be accomplished, skills to be improved, and products to be developed. Faculty discover student opinions about course-related issues. The second entry explains the personal significance of the passage selected and responds to that passage.
Detailed feedback is provided on how students read, analyze, and respond to assigned texts.
This technique helps faculty understand the images and values students associate with the best practice and practitioners in the discipline under study. Everyday Ethical Dilemmas - Students are presented with an abbreviated case study that poses an ethical problem related to the discipline or profession they are studying and must respond briefly and anonymously to these cases. Students identify, clarify, and connect their values by responding to course-related issues and problems that they are likely to encounter. Faculty get honest reactions and information on what students' values are and how they apply them to realistic dilemmas. Faculty assess their students' level of confidence in their ability to learn the relevant skills and material and can more effectively structure assignments that will build confidence in relation to specific tasks.