This level of student performance implies excellence in the development of critical thinking, content acquisition and communication skills. The outstanding student demonstrates independence and self-direction yet seeks appropriate guidance and assistance from faculty. Outstanding student performance includes accountability for personal thoughts, feelings, and actions. The outstanding student clearly and precisely raises and analyzes key questions and issues, recognizes questionable assumptions, and clarifies key concepts. The outstanding student demonstrates the ability to synthesize materials from multiple sources and appropriately communicates aggregate findings.
Outstanding performance includes a mastery of language arts.
The outstanding student consistently demonstrates high level performance. The superior student assumes accountability for personal thoughts, feelings, and actions, yet sometimes externalizes causes for problems encountered. The superior student raises and analyzes questions, assumptions, and issues that are presented, and recognizes conceptual confusion. In contrast to the outstanding student, the superior student uses limited sources for information interpretation, and needs encouragement to draw conclusions and project implications and consequences for practice beyond personal experiences. Superior performance includes a reasonable command of the language arts.