RUBRIC FOR EVALUATING LEARNING INNOVATION GRANT PROPOSALS SPRING 2007

Category	Criteria	Meets Criteria	Approaches Criteria	Does Not Meet Criteria	Score	
		4 points	2 points	0 points		
Project Description	Project  will directly improve student learning 	The project actively engages students in order to improve their ability to achieve course, department or program learning objectives.  The project provides equipment, tools, or learning strategies that students will directly interact with. Student participation is adequately supported in order to facilitate student success & achievement of learning goals. 	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  For example, while student’s participation is ensured, there may not be adequate guidance for them to be successful in achieving a learning goal. 	Project is not student-centered or students are not involved. The project may imply student learning will occur as a result of the project but is not explicit about what students will actually do and how the project will improve their ability to achieve learning goals.  Alternatively, the project may anticipate student participation but does not provide adequate support to students so that they may achieve specific goals.	 	
		2 points	1 point	0 points	Score	
	Project is innovative	Project takes a new and original approach to teaching and learning that is based on best practices in the discipline and in teaching and learning. The proposal should refer to current research and practice within the discipline and teaching and learning.	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  	Project lacks a novel approach to learning and an awareness of best practices in the discipline and teaching and learning. 	 	

Project Description, continued		2 points	1 point	0 points	Score	
	Project is attentive to assessment & improvement	Project provides a well planned strategy for student improvement and creates a way to find out if student knowledge has increased based on participation in the project. 	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  	There may be hopes for improvements in student learning, but no plan is in place to provide support for improvements . Project also lacks a measure of student improvement. 	 	
	Project is 
collaborative &/or interdisciplinary 
and
uses technology innovatively
	Project is collaborative and/or interdisciplinary AND uses technology innovatively	The project may include one element of the criteria but not both.	Is not collaborative, interdisciplinary or technologically innovative.	 	
Statement of Need	The need for this project is clear and well-defined. 	A case is made for how current teaching & learning practices are inadequate and a rationale for change is convincing to someone outside of your discipline.  	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  	Current teaching & learning practices are not discussed and no rationale for change is given or the rationale is not understood by intelligent readers outside of your field.	 	

		2 points	1 point	0 points	Score	
Description of Activities & Implementation	Activities can be accomplished in the time line given. 	Project can undoubtedly be accomplished within one year’s time with a reasonable amount of effort.	While a one-year time line is proposed, there is some doubt as to whether or not the project can be completed given the scope of the effort.	No time line is given or the project exceeds a one year time line. 	 	
Outcomes of Project	Primary outcomes of project are student-centered.	The primary goals of the project are based on what students will accomplish. Faculty & staff may learn new techniques or strategies to directly help students, but this must be secondary to how students will participate. 	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  	Primary outcomes are focused on improvements for faculty or staff without having a direct impact on students.	 	
Evaluation	Each outcome is measurable by the method described. 	An evaluation for each outcome is planned and can be reasonably accomplished. 	The project may include one or more elements of the criteria but does not fully meet the criteria.  	No evaluation is planned or the outcomes cannot be measured by the methods proposed. 	 	
Dissemination	The project will be presented to your colleagues in a meaningful way.  	You have planned to share your results and methods in a significant way with the largest interested audience available (at the college). 	You have plans for some dissemination event but have not fully met the criteria.  	No plans for dissemination are planned or the planned presentation is extremely limited.	 	

		2 points	1 point	0 points	Score	
Budget	Proposed budget is consistent with proposed objectives.	Each item on the budget is necessary and is adequately justified for the project’s success. Your project reflects SUNY Orange’s mission to be “most efficient in shepherding public resources”.  	Your project approaches, but does not fully meet the criteria.	Requested funds do not support goals of project, or 
the cost-to-benefit ratio is unreasonably high (i.e. the means do not justify the ends).  	 	
The WOW factor	Your project has a hard to define spark, flare and pizzazz that makes the reader think WOW!  	Optional 3 points 	
Format & Deadline	All forms must be completed in the requested format, with 7 total paper copies, required signatures, submitted to Jennifer Merriam’s mailbox in Morrison Mail Room no later than 5:00 p.m. May 16th, 2007. 
Applications not following guidelines will not be reviewed.	
Maximum Points= 24 (+3 wow points)