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.
The superior student demonstrates potential for high level performance. This level of student performance implies an average level of development among critical thinking, content acquisition and communication skills. In contrast to the superior student, an average student seeks concrete answers from faculty rather than seeking answers from an independent learning quest. The average student assumes some accountability for personal thoughts, feelings, and actions, yet externalizes many causes for problems encountered. The average student needs encouragement to raise and analyze questions, assumptions, and issues that are presented, and sometimes recognizes conceptual confusion.