Self-Assessment Worksheet

First-Year Writing | City College of New York

What is Self-Assessment & Why are We Doing it?

• Self-Assessment is a form of reflection, and reflection is one of the best tools we have for learning. Reflection helps us to reinforce our knowledge because our awareness of what we know grows and fortifies when we consciously build a vocabulary for naming and discussing what we know.
• Reflecting on what we’ve done and what we know allows us to self-assess our learning. And self-assessment is a skill offering us far more benefits than simply interpreting someone else’s assessment of our work. A major goal of this composition course, then, is for you to reflect on your learning and writing practices, name and discuss what you’ve learned, and then self-assess that learning.
• This self-assessment will also prepare you to write our final essay, the Final Reflection Essay. 
• In the worksheet that follows you will
  • Paraphrase (aka “re-write in your own words”) each of the Learning Goals for our course.
  • Score your current level of learning each Learning Goal, using the following key:

0 – No learning/practicing

1 – Very little learning /practicing

2 – Some learning /practicing

3 – Good/average amount of learning/practicing

4 – Great amount of learning/practicing

5 – Outstanding learning/practicing

• Provide examples of any learning you experienced that connects to the Learning Goal. Explanations work as do hyperlinks to any documents you have online. Skip providing explanations for any Learning Goals that you have not yet worked on.

Self-Assessment– Course Learning Outcomes

#	Learning Goal   Write below (verbatim) all course learning outcomes listed in the syllabus.	Your Paraphrase   Rewrite each course learning outcome in your own words.	Score 0-5   Rate your learning (see score key above)	Evidence of Learning   Briefly describe an example (or provide a hyperlink to your work) to demonstrate your level of learning.
1	Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.	Explore how views on language standards can affect speakers positively and negatively	4	It is still underlying that people only value standard English seems discriminated to people with accents and people who speak non-standard English.
2	Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.	Examine and interpret various genres and rhetorical situations through reading and writing.	3	By reading different kinds of essay, poems and articles, I learned a lot of structures in academic reading and writing.
3	Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.	Build strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing written work.	4	Building strategies to write a research essay really help me to revise, edit and paraphrasing.
4	Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.	Identify and apply important rhetorical terms and strategies in writing situations.	4	The strategies of using rhetorical terms like engaging with audience, argument, credibility, evidence, context in writing.
5	Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.	Learn to use print and digital technologies to communicate with different audiences.	4	Using a painting to show how immigrants came here to survive because they didn’t have anything to choose.
6	Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.	Find research sources in library databases, archives, and online, and evaluate their credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.	5	I got knowledge how I can get reliable resources online for my research essay on google, school libraries and from edu articles.
7	Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation.	Write texts that present a clear position while incorporating relevant sources, using techniques like summarizing, analyzing, combining ideas, and building arguments.	3	Online learning has become a central part of education, but its effectiveness depends heavily on how it is implemented. I found it getting easy lately to use techniques like paraphrasing and summarizing relevant to online source.
8	Practice systematic application of citation conventions.	Apply citation rules consistently and in an organized manner.	5	All the lecture classes about citation really help me to do it in the standard form though I was not familiar with those rules at all.