Self-Assessment Worksheet 

First-Year Writing | City College of New York 

What is Self-Assessment & Why are We Doing it?  

• Self-Assessment is a form of reflection, and reflection is one of the best tools we have for learning. Reflection helps us to reinforce our knowledge because our awareness of what we know grows and fortifies when we consciously build a vocabulary for naming and discussing what we know.  

• Reflecting on what we’ve done and what we know allows us to self-assess our learning. And self-assessment is a skill offering us far more benefits than simply interpreting someone else’s assessment of our work. A major goal of this composition course, then, is for you to reflect on your learning and writing practices, name and discuss what you’ve learned, and then self-assess that learning.  

• This self-assessment will also prepare you to write our final essay, the Final Reflection Essay.   

• In the worksheet that follows you will 

1. Paraphrase (aka “re-write in your own words”) each of the Learning Goals for our course. 

2. Score your current level of learning each Learning Goal, using the following key: 

0 – No learning/practicing 

1 – Very little learning /practicing 

2 – Some learning /practicing 

3 – Good/average amount of learning/practicing 

4 – Great amount of learning/practicing 

5 – Outstanding learning/practicing 

3. Provide examples of any learning you experienced that connects to the Learning Goal. Explanations work as do hyperlinks to any documents you have online. Skip providing explanations for any Learning Goals that you have not yet worked on.  

Self-Assessment– Course Learning Outcomes 

#	Learning Goal  Write below (verbatim) all course learning outcomes listed in the syllabus.	Your Paraphrase  Rewrite each course learning outcome in your own words.	Score 0-5  Rate your learning (see score key above)	Evidence of Learning   Briefly describe an example (or provide a hyperlink to your work) to demonstrate your level of learning.
1	Examine how attitudes towards linguistic standards empower and oppress language users.	Explore how views on language standards can affect speakers positively and negatively	5	Through writing my synthesis essay, I wrote about “Linguistic Racism Toward Black Students in U.S. Schools,” where I mainly focused on the influence that Standard English can have on AAE speakers.
2	Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.	Analyze different genres and rhetorical situations through reading and writing.	4	The readings we did at the start of the semester helped me learn how to explore and analyze different genres and rhetorical situations. Pieces like Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” June Jordan’s “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future of Life of Willie Jordan,” along with the short videos we watched (like the Selena Gomez makeup ad), helped me see how rhetorical concepts appear in both written and visual texts. The class worksheets and assignments also helped me practice these skills and better understand each concept, especially when analyzing texts and identifying purpose and other rhetorical elements.
3	Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.	Learn techniques for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.	5	While drafting my synthesis essay, I used different revision strategies, including peer feedback, rewriting paragraphs, and reorganizing my ideas.
4	Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.	Learn and apply important rhetorical ideas and techniques when writing.	4	Through the early readings, like Amy Tan’s piece and others, I learned key rhetorical terms such as audience, purpose, tone, etc. Seeing how those writers used these strategies helped me understand them. Then, when I wrote my first essay, “A Voice in a Foreign Language,” I applied what I learned and practiced using those rhetorical concepts in my own writing.
5	Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.	Use digital media to communicate withdifferent audiences.	3	Working on the visual argument and transforming written sentences into something more expressive and understandable for different groups of people.
6	Locate research sources(including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.	Find research sources in the library and online, and check if they are trustworthy, accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased.	5	Finding different credible sources for the synthesis essay using the CCNY library and other websites and databases.
7	Compose texts that integrate a stance with appropriate sources, using strategies such as summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation.	Write essays that share opinion and support it with sources by summarizing, analyzing, connecting ideas, and making arguments.	4	Deriving quotes and incorporating those quotes into the text, then analyzing the argument in the synthesis essay.
8	Practice systematic application of citation conventions.	Apply citation rules correctly.	5	Citing the sources within the paragraphs and at the end of the work, following the academic format, all in the synthesis essay.