Self-Reflection

Use the following questions to assess your demonstration of

each criterion.

Scoring Guide
Your instructor will use these criteria to evaluate your assignment.
Criteria
Integrate
scholarship and
practice within the
field of
psychology.
20%

Non-performance
Describes or does
not describe
scholarship and
practice separately.
Does not include
elements related to
specialized areas
for research and
scholarship in
psychology and
practice.
Demonstrates
major
misunderstanding
of the practitionerscholar role.

Basic
Analyzes
scholarship and
practice separately
within the field of
psychology. May or
may not include
elements related to
specialized areas
for research and
scholarship in
psychology and
practice.
May demonstrate
minor
misunderstanding
of the practitionerscholar role in
vision.

Proficient
Integrates
scholarship and
practice within the
field of psychology.
Includes elements
related to
specialized areas
for research and
scholarship in
psychology and
practice.
Demonstrates
understanding of
practitionerscholar role
throughout vision
and goals.

Distinguished
Integrates
scholarship,
practice, and lifelong learning
within the field of
psychology.
Includes elements
related to
specialized areas
for research and
scholarship in
psychology and
practice. Includes
vision for keeping
up to date in the
field and
continuous
professional
development.
Demonstrates
thorough
understanding of
practitionerscholar role
throughout vision
and goals.

Do you understand what it means to be a psychology

practitioner-scholar? Is that understanding clear in your
paper?
Is it clear how your vision and goals are connected to
becoming a practitioner-scholar, in other words, both
research and scholarship and practice in your specialized
field?
Do you have elements of lifelong learning in your vision and
goals?

Self-Reflection
Use the following questions to assess your demonstration of
each criterion.

Scoring Guide
Your instructor will use these criteria to evaluate your assignment.
Criteria
Create a vision for
becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar.
20%

Non-performance
Poorly describes or
does not describe
ideas related to
becoming a
psychology
practitioner-scholar.
Does not not
connect vision to
passions, interests,
and specialization
in psychology.
Does not explain
importance and
relevance of
elements within the
vision to personal
and professional.

Basic
Describes ideas
related to becoming
a psychology
practitioner-scholar
but does not create
a holistic vision.
May not connect
vision to passions,
interests, and
specialization in
psychology. May
not explain
importance and
relevance of
elements within the
vision to personal
and professional
aspirations.

Proficient
Creates a vision
for becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar. Explains
how vision is
connected to
passions and
interests and
specialization in
psychology.
Explains
importance and
relevance of
elements within
vision to personal
and professional
aspirations.

Distinguished
Creates an
inspirational and
realistic vision for
becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar. Integrates
passions and
interests and
specialization in
psychology into
vision. Integrates
importance and
personal relevance
of elements within
the vision with
personal and
professional
aspirations.
Relates vision to
previous
professional and
personal
experiences to
further explain
personal meaning
of vision.

Is it clear how your vision is connected to your passions

and interests in psychology?
Is it clear how your vision is connected to your
specialization in psychology?
Is it clear why elements in your vision are important to you
and relevant to your professional aspirations?
Is your vision inspiring and realistic for what you can
accomplish within the field?
Does your vision include lifelong learning elements that
explain your continued learning in your field?

Self-Reflection
Use the following questions to assess your demonstration of
each criterion.

Scoring Guide
Your instructor will use these criteria to evaluate your assignment.
Criteria
Formulate longterm goals to
create achievable
milestones for
becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar.
20%

Non-performance
Describes or does
not describe steps
related to the field
of psychology but
does not formulate
long-term goals that
relate to becoming
a psychology
practitioner-scholar.
Does not align
long-term goals
with vision.

Basic
Formulates goals
that may or may
not relate to
achieving a vision
for becoming a
psychology
practitioner-scholar.
May or may not
align long-term
goals with vision.

Proficient
Formulates longterm goals to
create achievable
milestones for
becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar. Aligns
long-term goals
with vision.

Use correct
grammar, usage,
and mechanics in
written
communications.
10%

Uses incorrect
grammar, usage,
and mechanics in
written
communications,
which impair clarity
and meaning (more
than 5 errors per
page).

Uses inconsistent
grammar, usage,
and mechanics in
written
communications,
which occasionally
impair clarity and
meaning (3-5 errors
per page).

Uses correct
grammar, usage,
and mechanics in
written
communications
with minor errors
that do not detract
from meaning and
clarity (12 errors
per page).

Distinguished
Formulates
specific,
measurable,
achievable,
relevant, and
timely long-term
goals to create
milestones for
becoming a
psychology
practitionerscholar. Creates
long-term goals
that enable
achievement of
vision.
Uses correct and
consistent
grammar, usage,
and mechanics in
written
communications
with few errors
(less than one
error per page).

Is each of your long-term goals related to becoming a

practitioner-scholar specific, measurable, achievable,
relevant, and time-bound?
Are those goals clearly related to your vision?
If you achieved all of those individual goals, would you
achieve your career vision?

Did you complete a grammar and spell check of your work?

Did you incorporate the revisions from your Smarthinking
feedback?
Read your paper aloud, do you hear any awkward
sentences, missing words, et cetera?
Read your paper from the perspective of someone else, for
instance, a potential employerwould they understand
what you have written?

Self-Reflection
Use the following questions to assess your demonstration of
each criterion.

Scoring Guide
Your instructor will use these criteria to evaluate your assignment.
Criteria
Communicate in a
manner that is
scholarly,
professional, and
consistent with
expectations of
members of the
psychological
professions.
10%

Non-performance
Does not
communicate in a
manner that is
scholarly,
professional, and
consistent with
expectations of
members of the
psychological
professions.
Includes frequent
APA errors.

Basic
Communicates in a
scholarly,
professional, and
consistent manner,
but the writing has
APA errors and
inconsistencies.
Does not support
writing with relevant
examples and
evidence from the
literature.

Proficient
Communicates in
a manner
that is scholarly,
professional, and
consistent with
expectations of
members of the
psychological
professions.
Conforms to basic
APA style and
formatting
guidelines with
minor errors.
Supports ideas
with relevant
examples and
evidence from the
literature.

Distinguished
Communicates in
a manner that is
scholarly,
professional, and
consistent with
expectations of
members of the
psychological
professions.
Writing is concise,
logically
organized, and
conforms to APA
style and
formatting
guidelines with
minor errors.
Supports ideas
with relevant and
diverse examples
and evidence from
the literature.

Review the APA Writing Feedback Rubric for help

addressing this criteria.