• Involves the whole person
• Is an integration of skills, behaviors, knowledge, values, attitudes, motives or dispositions and self perceptions
• Is developmental and can be learned
• Can be assessed
• Transfers across settings
• Is continually re-evaluated and re-defined
• Is important to personal and/or professional situations in life
• Is appropriate to the mission/aims and educational philosophy of the institution or program

Outcome

Describes what a student will be able to do with what she knows in personal, professional, and/or academic contexts as a result of a set of learning experiences.

• allowing an instructor/assessor to make judgments
• helping a beginning learner imagine a successful performance
• incorporating qualitative dimensions of performance

Feedback

• Tells a student how well she is doing from a perspective outside herself
• Like a mirror, provides a student with matter for both reflection and growth
• Raises questions that enable a student to critique and further develop her abilities and ideas
• Can assist a student to separate her performance from her judgment of self

Externality

Achievement of distance from classroom learning experiences by various degrees

Self Assessment

The ability of a student to observe, analyze, and judge her performance on the basis of criteria and determine how she can improve it