College Choice and Campus Culture Reflection Paper

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Your College Choice and Campus Culture Reflection Paper:

Part of understanding college students includes exploring their institutional choice and campus culture. As a starting point, students will reflect on their choice process for the first higher education institution they attended. Reflect on the process that led you to consider which higher education institution to attend, how you made the decision to select the one in which you first enrolled, and how you acclimated to the campus culture. The paper should focus only on your first choice and not on any additional institutions you attended. As part of this reflection, you should consider what factors influenced your decision to attend, as well as what on campus made you feel comfortable. Factors can include familial expectations, finances, culture, and aspects that were important to you at that point in your life. This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and should follow accurate American Psychological Association (APA) formatting.

Rubric:

Choice & Campus Culture

Exemplary

Accomplished

Developing

Beginning

College Choice Factors

ILO-SK.M.1

Reflection demonstrates an in-depth analysis of various factors associated with college choice.

Reflection provides an adequate analysis of some factors associated with college choice.

Reflection shows limited analysis of factors associated with college choice.

Incomplete reflection that does not address factors associated with college choice.

Personal Decision Making

ISO-IS.M.5

Reflection has multiple connections of choice factors to student’s own experiences or a thorough explanation of why choice factors didn’t apply to their experience

Reflection shows good connections between their college choice and factors

Limited analysis of college choice factors and the student’s personal experiences.

Paper addresses the student’s college choice, but not how factors influence their choice.

Writing

ILO-DL.M.5

Paper is written in a professional style, is well-organized using headings and sub-headings to guide the reader, and is free of grammatical and spelling errors.

Paper is written in a professional style, is well-organized using headings and sub-headings to guide the reader, and contains only minor and infrequent grammatical and spelling errors.

Paper contains some instances of colloquial, non-professional writing, is moderately lacking in organization, and contains a moderate number of grammatical and spelling errors.

Paper contains instances of colloquial, non-professional writing and/or grammatical and spelling errors sufficient to detract from communication of ideas.

APA Style

Document is presented in accurate APA style, including title page, references, and organizational structure. In-text citations are used where needed and formatted appropriately. Reference list is provided with all items in accurate APA format.

Overall APA style is accurate, but minor errors exist in in-text and reference list citation formatting, title page formatting, or structure of paper.

There are a moderate number of errors in overall APA style and in-text and reference list citation formatting. Assignment does not have a continuous pattern of logical sequencing.

There are major errors in overall APA style and in-text and reference list citations formatting. Assignment reveals formatting errors and a lack of organization.