Explanation
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Interpretation |
Application |
Perspective |
Empathy |
Self-knowledge |
Sophisticated and comprehensive: an
unusually thorough, elegant, or inventive account; fully supported,
verified, justified; deep and broad; goes well beyond the information
given
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Insightful: a powerful and illuminating
interpretation or analysis of the importance, meaning, significance;
tells a rich and insightful story; provides a revealing history or
context
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Masterful: Fluent, flexible, efficient,
able to use knowledge and skill and adjust understandings well in
diverse and difficult contexts - masterful ability to transfer
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Insightful and Coherent: a thoughtful
and circumspect viewpoint; effectively critiques, encompasses other
plausible perspectives; takes a long and dispassionate critical view of
the issues involved
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Mature: disciplined and able to see and
feel what others see and feel; unusually open to and willing to seek
out the odd, alien, or different; able to make sense of texts,
experiences, events that seem weird to others
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Wise: deeply aware of the boundaries of
own and others' understanding; able to recognize own prejudices and
projections; has integrity - able and willing to act on understanding
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Systematic: an atypical and revealing
account, going beyond what is obvious or what was explicitly taught;
makes subtle connections; well supported by argument and evidence; novel
thinking displayed
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Revealing: a thoughtful interpretation
or analysis of the importance, meaning, significance; tells an
insightful story; provides a helpful history or context
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Skilled: competent in using knowledge and skill and adapting understandings in a variety of appropriate and demanding contexts
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Thorough: a fully developed and
coordinated critical view; makes own view more plausible by a fair
consideration of plausibility of other perspectives; makes apt
criticisms, discriminations, and qualifications
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Sensitive: disposed to see and feel
what others see and feel; open to the unfamiliar or different; able to
see the value and work that others do not see
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Circumspect: aware of own ignorance and that of others; aware of own prejudices
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In-Depth: an account that reflects some
in-depth and personalized ideas; student is making the work his own,
going beyond the given; there is supported theory, but insufficient or
inadequate evidence and argument
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Perceptive: a reasonable interpretation
or analysis of the importance, meaning, or significance; tells a clear
and instructive story; provides a revealing history or context
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Able: limited but growing ability to be adaptive and innovative in the use of knowledge and skill
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Considered: a reasonably critical and
comprehensive look at major points of view in the context of her own;
makes clear that there is plausibility to other points of view
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Aware: knows and feels that others see and feel differently and is somewhat able to empathize with others
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Thoughtful: generally aware of what he does and does not understand: aware of how prejudice and projection occur without awareness
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Developed: an incomplete account, but
with apt and insightful ideas; extends and deepens some of what was
learned; some reading between the lines; account has limited support,
argument, data, or sweeping generalizations; there is a theory with
limited testing and evidence
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Interpreted: a plausible interpretation
or analysis of the importance, meaning, or significance; makes sense
with a story; provides a telling history or context
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Apprentice: relies on a limited
repertoire of routines, able to perform well in a few familiar or simple
contexts: limited use of judgment and responsiveness to feedback or
situation
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Aware: knows of different points of
view and somewhat able to place own view in perspective, but weakness in
considering worth of each perspective or critiquing each perspective,
especially her own; uncritical about tacit assumptions
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Decentering: has some capacity or
self-discipline to walk in others shoes, but is still primarily limited t
own reactions and attitudes, puzzled or put off by different feelings
or attitudes
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Unreflective: generally unaware of own specific ignorance; generally unaware of how prejudgments color understanding
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Naive: superficial account; more descriptive than analytical
or creative; a fragmented or sketchy account of facts, ideas; glib
generalizations; a black-and-white account; less theory than an
unexamined hunch or borrowed idea
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Literal: a simplistic or superficial reading; mechanical
translation; a decoding with little or no interpretation; no sense of
wider importance or significance; a restatement of what was taught or
read
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Novice: can perform only with coaching or relies on highly scripted, singular "plug-in" skills, procedures, or approaches
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Uncritical: unaware of differing points of view, prone to
overlook or ignore other perspectives; has difficulty imagining other
ways of seeing things; prone to ad hominem criticisms
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Egocentric: has little or no empathy, beyond intellectual
awareness of others: see things through own ideas and feelings: ignores
or is threatened or puzzled by different feelings, attitudes, view
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Innocent: completely unaware of the bounds of own
understanding and of the role of projections and prejudice in opinions
and attempts to understand
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