Scoring Rubric
Name______Course Title______Date______
NSCC General Education Learning Outcome #6: “Work and communicate effectively in groups”
Criteria of Student Proficiency / Not Observed (0) / Emerging Awareness (1) / Developing Practice (3) / Responsible Leadership (5)
Listening Skills:
  • Listening for patterns of connections.
  • Listening with all of one’s senses not just one’s ears.
  • Listening for feelings.
  • Asking open-ended questions to clarify confusion.
  • Restating the expressed idea in one’s own words.
  • Summarizing essential concepts and/or processes.
  • Refining the content of one’s statement or position based on the contributions of others.
/ Demonstrates an emerging awareness that listening skills are a critical component of an effective group. / Demonstratesseveral of the criteria. / Demonstrates an understanding and effectively applies a majority of the criteria.
Relational Skills:
  • Creating an amiable space that validates another person’s voice and participation.
  • Displaying curiosity about the other’s view and way of communicating.
  • Choosing language and non-verbal behavior (eye contact, nodding of the head, leaning forward) that is enabling of others.
  • Willing to examine your own thinking in relationship to what another person is saying.
  • Introducing personal examples to clarify or illuminate an idea.
  • Taking personal responsibility to come prepared and be engaged.
  • Maintaining the continuity of the topic in chaotic moments in order to investigate their potential for learning.
  • Demonstrating awareness that one’s behavior affects the group’s effectiveness.
  • Checking with others to ensure that other group membersfeel a sense of belonging, safety and participation.
  • Honoring the unique perspectives and experiences of individual members.
/ Demonstrates an emerging awareness that relational skills are a critical component of an effective group. / Demonstrates several of the criteria. / Demonstrates an understanding and effectively applies a majority of the criteria.
Facilitating Skills:
  • Initiating a ritual of welcome.
  • Clarifying the group’s purpose and goals.
  • Identifying essential ground rules, concepts or questions.
  • Asking insightful questions for clarity and to stimulate further group responses.
  • Calling attention to connections among the contributions from group members
  • Inviting others’ participation.
  • Maintaining the group’s focus and well-being.
  • Celebrating the experience of teamwork.
/ Demonstrates an emerging awareness that each person has a role in the group and that one’s behavior has an impact on the group’s overall effectiveness.
Demonstrates an emerging awareness that successful facilitation includes both the relational and process skills that help a group work together effectively.
Demonstrates an emerging awareness that group facilitation includes helping create a climate where each group member feels a sense of belonging and comfortableness in the group. / Demonstrates several of the criteria. / Demonstrates an understanding and effectively applies a majority of the criteria.

Listening Skills __/5Peer Assessment ___
Relational Skills __/5Self Assessment ___
Facilitation Skills __/5Faculty Assessment ___

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