In this section you will find resources for capstone design in several categories. Resources will continue to be updated and added in response to your feedback and questions. If you can’t find what you need, please let us know. Your tools and activities are also welcome – just email us to share.
Typologies
Typologies are designed as decision-making tools for some key dimensions of the capstone curriculum. They provide a general guide to some of the choices available along with the implications of selecting a particular model.
Teaching guides, samples and ideas
Teaching guides, samples and ideas are tools that can be used in curriculum design and teaching – they are suggestions and examples only, for adaptation to your context.
Rubrics
Rubrics are useful marking guides for dimensions of assessment deliverables, behaviours and activities. We are collecting and adapting rubrics as we review capstones across the disciplines and identify dimensions. These are linked as documents below:
For more on rubrics:
The Value Rubrics from the Association of American Colleges and Universities – 16 rubrics covering a range of capabilities at what they refer to as ‘benchmark, milestone and capstone level’ (the latter being the highest performance level rather than a capstone outcome):
Intellectual and Practical Skills
- Inquiry and analysis
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Reading
- Quantitative literacy
- Information literacy
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
Personal and Social Responsibility
- Civic engagement—local and global
- Intercultural knowledge and competence
- Ethical reasoning
- Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
- Global learning
Integrative and Applied Learning
And:
Rubric for the six facets of understanding – beautifully written and conceptually thorough rubric outlining levels of achievement in Explanation, Interpretation, Application, Perspective, Empathy and Self-Knowledge. Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design. Ascd. pp.76-77
The rubric has been adapted across the world, and can also be downloaded from http://faculty.fullerton.edu/npelaez/BIOL102/UBDrubric.htm