Scoring Dimensions for ACE Report Card

Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD

Knowledge and skills: What students understand/comprehend and can do related to the topic of study

Innovation and application: Demonstration of knowledge and skills creatively in an original product

Analysis and synthesis: Thinking processes in which whole topics are separated into their constituent parts for study and reconstituted to form a new, coherent whole

Ethics/unanswered questions: Judge, evaluate and consider issues and unanswered questions related to a topic of study

Multiple perspectives: Identify and understand multiple points of view

Methodology and use of resources: The use of principles, procedures, practices, and references of the field of study to guide, but not to limit, the project

Communication: The use of written, spoken, and technological media to convey new learning

Relevance and significance: The potential impact of the project on the individual student and other social groups

Quality of work: Final product exemplifies a high level of learning in each of the relevant categories, i.e. – knowledge, skills, communication, etc.

Task commitment: Follow – through to completion of quality product in the area of study

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Curriculum and instruction meets the needs of the gifted students by modifying the depth, complexity, and pacing of the general school program.

Depth: Investigate the layers of experience within a discipline through the language of the discipline, details, patterns, trends, unanswered questions, rules, big ideas, and ethical considerations

Complexity: Expanding understanding within the discipline – Relationships in, between, across disciplines – Extend content through the study of themes, and problems, and issues