| A Work | B Work | C Work |
-Misses one class or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates all readings thoroughly -Makes substantive comments in discussions -Completes all assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Work demonstrates intellectual engagement, care, effort, and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates substantially, contributes to vision, works equally with peers | -Misses two classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates readings -Often participates in discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes most SAs on time -Work demonstrates care, effort and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates equally, completes required work | -Misses three classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Completes most readings -Sometimes adds to discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes at least four SAs -Meets minimal expectations on assignments; shows limited growth in response to feedback -Completes required collaborative work |
First-Week Introduction
This year, my goals for the CODES 221 research class aligns with personal growth. I would like the procces of the projects in this class to be more smooth this year. The assignment I am excited for the most this year is the Product Project. I am interested to see how well an event for my research would go. Something I think that might be challenging this year is positive teamwork. I want to set certain boundaries, goals, structures, and schedules this year for my group to run efficiently.
[Complete the goal-setting portions of your class portfolio by choosing your goals, going over the syllabus in detail, and explaining what assignments you may use to demonstrate how you have been developing in those areas and what will best demonstrate your progress. Then, write a brief introduction here where you explain why you chose your five goals. What assignment makes you most excited for the semester? Which one seems like it will be the most challenging? What strategies do you want to set for yourself to make the semester a success?
Midterm Introduction
The first half of this semester in CODES 221 has been well. I haven’t had any issues this year besides getting low replies to my survey for my part in the implementation plan. Throughout my research this semester so far, I have gained different insights on why young adults are not consistently involved in water conservation. I enjoy getting to know more about my generation. I feel at this point in the semester I have been able to achieve 4 out of 5 goals. However, I do believe I am not reaching my goals as frequently as I should be. For the rest of the semester, I plan to keep in mind my goals I chose and push harder to achieve them more frequently.
[Speak about the skills and content you’ve learned during the first half of the semester. What did you most enjoy? What did you struggle with? What goals do you think you’ve most excelled at meeting and what do you want to continue developing during the second half of the semester? What goals haven’t you yet met, and how will you make them a priority in the second half of class?]
Final Introduction
This is semester has went really well. I got the opportunity to connect more with my group in a positive way and also work individually on my work. I think I set out to reach my goals well. Something I learned that surprised me is more about preventions of young adults participating in conservation from my survey. Things that I want to take to my next courses is my research I learned from this semester. Strategies I can use to continue developing my goals are making connections between my team and I research and also expanding on everything in depth.
[Now that the semester is over, use your introduction to reflect in-depth on your process. How well did you meet the goals you set out to meet? What did you learn that surprised you? Focusing on your goals for this class, what do you want to remember to take with you into your future courses? What strategies can you use to continue developing toward these goals?]
Course Goals
Choose five goals from the CODES Student Learning Outcomes that you’d like to work toward. Choose goals that are relevant to the scope of this course, select artifacts/examples based on activities assigned for this course, and explain characteristics in a way that illustrates how your artifacts/examples demonstrate your progress toward the goal.
Goal 1 (20%)
2A-. Systematically analyzes assumptions to develop logical plans to solve problems.
Based on (INSERT NUMBER AND LETTER OF GOAL from CODES Student Learning Outcomes): Write out Goal in your own words
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| -Analyzing the situation, identify the key assumptions and evaluate -Take extra steps on assignments -Brainstrom -Read Critically | -Reflections -Notes -Implementation Plan -Data Collection and Content Assignments | -Attend and actively participate in at least 90% of class sessions -Complete weekly reflections on time and answer questions fully -Prepared for 90% of class sessions. -Participate in discussions -Take notes |
- For the beginning of my reflection, I had to analyzes assumptions to develop logical plans to put together my plan for my research this semester. I thought about additional factors that would affect or help my research.
– This is my assignment that allowed my to reflect more about what I wanted to do next within my project. I was able to think about the things I thought would affect me and my research , to help allow me to decide how I wanted my research to go.
– I had the assumption that the young adults would not answer. I made the plan to send out the survey multiple times to make sure it reaches the amount of people that I need to make sure I get the responses to help me continue to try to consistently involve young adults.
For this artifact , I am trying to connect all the data I got back from the young adults and their survey to help solve the problem of them not getting involved. I want to create an event step by step to benefit my audience and research.
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 2 (20%)
7A- a. Explores a topic in depth, yielding a rich awareness and/or little-known information indicating intense interest in the subject.
Based on (INSERT NUMBER AND LETTER OF GOAL from CODES Student Learning Outcomes): Write out Goal in your own words
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| -Take detailed Notes -Organize my information -Troubleshoot and problem-solve | -Implementation Plan -Final Presentation -Notes -Reflections -Survey | -Turn in assignments on time -Participate in discussions -Look at previous work |
–When coming up with the questions for my survey, I did my research on what questions did we already ask last year. I had to analyze and think about what questions would be more beneficial to my research of getting young adults involved. By doing this, I was able to get back some valuable information.
-For this goal, I took the time out to know about the collaboration between our community partner Heartlands and our school to contribute to my implementation plan. I did the reaching out and research about the event to help my own research to deploy a survey to the young adults.
- For this artifact, I reached my goal because I am trying to try something new of creating a conservation event the best I can to show that I am interested in this topic and care.
For this artifact, I was able to reflect and put together the main important things from my research this semester to help plan for an event in a more in-depth process.
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 3 (20%)
5A- Defines the scope of research questions effectively and selects information cogently to address them.
Based on (INSERT NUMBER AND LETTER OF GOAL from CODES Student Learning Outcomes): Write out Goal in your own words
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| -Group Brainstorms -Structured information gathering -Peer review -Regular reflections | -Reflections -Information from group discussions -Implementation Plan -Survey | -Turning in assignments on time -Cited articles -Participating in discussions |
- With reflection one, I was able to reflect on the questions that needed to be made for my research this is year to continue and get more insights from young adults that would help my overall research question.
- – Further deep in my reflection, I took time out to bullet point what questions I still had towards my own research to help me towards my survey and data I wanted to gather.
- For these two specific artifacts I selected certain question help try to get more insight on my research question. Last year my team and I thought our main theme was motivation. However, through my research this year I came up with specific questions in my survey to try to address that.
- For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 4 (20-%)
6B-. Demonstrates sophisticated understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
Based on (INSERT NUMBER AND LETTER OF GOAL from CODES Student Learning Outcomes): Write out Goal in your own words
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| -Put together different questions -Talk to different students | -Reflections -Research from Implementation Plan -Survey | -Following/going over the word count for reflections -Turning assignments in on time -Interaction with my stakeholder/audience |
- In this section of my reflection, I thought about my team members and everything we have been through leading up to this point now. I thought about how all our individual projects affect us as a team.
For these two artifacts , I was able to learn more facts to expand my mindset about young adults and their preventions. I also learned more about what are the different things to motivate each person to participate. This help me learn different things about different young adults and what they prefer for their time usage and more.
For this assignment , I talked about what I learned from the young adults and how willing they would be to participate in an event to see conservation is important to different people from different backgrounds.
For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 5 (20%)
9B- . Identifies and evaluate multiple approaches for solving problems.
Based on (INSERT NUMBER AND LETTER OF GOAL from CODES Student Learning Outcomes): Write out Goal in your own words
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| -Engage in both readings and class discussions to learn about multiple worldviews, cultures and experiences -Being openminded – Expanding my knowledge | -Reflections -Implementation Plan -Data Collection -Content Assignments | – Self Reflection – Being open-minded -Trying new methods of research |
- To finish my implementation plan, I plan to create an event on top of the research from my survey. I know that just doing surveys is not enough to help solve my research question. I plan to try another approach of combining all the research from my team to help with this event.
– For this evidence, I will eventually be sending out the survey again once permission is granted. I knew getting young adults to respond would take more than one approach/try.
For this CODES Group contract helped identify roles for people and approaches to how they will contribute to the group. I added this assignment as evidence because my group this year was WAY better than last year, showing that we made progress.
For my presentation, I was able to identify different factors from my research about young adults and how they are affected and how they would like to be affected. This will help me with my future research to try to solve the problem of getting them more involved.
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]