DISCUSSION

Criteria	Novice	Apprentice	Proficient	Masterful	Comments	Your Score
Engagement	Waits for direction. Knows little of what is going on or objectives. Cannot describe where group is in process.	Seeks direction, but does not initiate action. Objectives seen as poorly defined external requirements. May know where group is.	Sometimes initiates action and always works well with direction. Generally knows the specific objectives and where group is.	Enthusiastically initiates action. Personalizes the task and takes ownership of the objectives. Always knows where group is.
Understanding of the task	Has little idea of nature of task or procedure. Asks for direction rather than overall clarification.	Knows name of task and general outcome, but little idea of the procedural pathway to completion.	Has general idea of nature and procedure for task. May proceed with fuzzy idea of outcome or pathway to completion.	Has clear idea of nature and procedure for task or asks for clarification before launching effort. Continuously clarifies as task unfolds.
Intellectual contribution	Has little or no grasp of context. Sees task as isolated with no connection to past or future ideas.	Aware of overall context, but makes no connections on own. Can recite connections of others but rarely can support them.	Usually understands overall context of task and asks questions about context. Makes connections on own and "gets" those others make.	Understands overall context of the task. Contributes ideas and proposals. Extends connections to ideas past and future.
Organization and time management	Always postpones work until deadline. Has no organization for files or notebooks.	Begins work early when required to do so, but usually postpones. May lose work overnight.	Will begin work early in process, but tends to increase effort toward deadline. Has adequate file system.	Begins immediately. Connects work to assignment not to deadline. Has organized file systems.