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ʻĀina-Based Learning Assessment Framework

‘Āina-Based Learning Assessment Resources | Living Document

ʻĀina-Based Learning Assessment Resources  | Living Document

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ʻĀina Based Rubrics by Hallmark

Hallmark:

Wahi Noho Like o Ka Po‘e

Community Engagement

Description:

Relying on community viewed as a Hawaiian sense of place and as an environment for learning, a class must include at least one major topic that connects ways Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge impacts and contributes to community engagement and a community’s ‘āina/wahi.

Student Learning Outcome:

Identify ways Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge may impact community engagement and a community’s ‘āina/wahi.

Level

Mu‘o (Emerging)

Liko (Developing)

Kumu (Transforming)

General Assessment:

Identify

Ways that Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge may impact a community’s ‘āina/wahi.

Connect

Ways that Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge impacts an individual's sense of place and engagement in the community.

Apply

Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge to engage with the community or to impact community engagement and a community's ‘āina/wahi.

Core Contexts:

Mālama ‘Āina. ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i. Mo‘olelo. Moʻomeheu.

Wahi Noho Like o Ka Poʻe: Community Engagement - Sample Performance Assessment [PDF].


Hallmark:

Ola Pono

Life Values

Description:

Synthesizing Native Hawaiian values with success strategies to explore deeper, more meaningful connections between culture and life skills connected to a specific place, a class must include a major topic on the exploration of ways Native Hawaiian values and cultural skills of specific place are related to academic, career, and personal success for community health and empowerment.

Student Learning Outcome:

Identify Native Hawaiian values and cultural skills of a particular place that are related to college, work, and home life, and explain how these values and skills may be related to academic, career, and personal success.

Level

Mu‘o (Emerging)

Liko (Developing)

Kumu (Transforming)

General Assessment:

Identify

Native Hawaiian cultural skills/technologies that supported abundance in traditional Hawaiʻi and contributed to a thriving population, as well as where these skills are practiced today.

Connect

Native Hawaiian cultural skills/technologies that supported abundance in traditional Hawaiʻi to growth in goals and relationships in personal, academic, and/or career pathways.

Apply

Existing exclusionary structures and spaces to embody Native Hawaiian cultural skills/technologies that supported abundance in traditional Hawaiʻi.

Core Contexts:

Mālama ‘Āina. ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i. Mo‘olelo. Moʻomeheu.

Ola Pono: Life Values - Sample Performance Assessment [PDF].


Hallmark:

I Ka Wā Ma Mua, Ka Wā Ma Hope

Bridging Past and Present to Guide the Future

Description:

Synthesizing Native Hawaiian knowledge of the past with present-day perspectives, a class must include at least one major topic on the interconnections between mo‘olelo (historical events, legendary stories, proverbs and poetical sayings, etc.), historical figures, or cultural practices and the present-day equivalent, and how those interconnections guide the future.

Student Learning Outcome:

Identify the interconnections between the mo‘olelo or indigenous Kanaka Maoli cultural practices of the past and present-day equivalents and describe how those interconnections guide the future.

Level

Mu‘o (Emerging)

Liko (Developing)

Kumu (Transforming)

General Assessment:

Identify

Native Hawaiian history, values, cultural skills, politics, communication styles, economy, beliefs or practices.

Connect

Native Hawaiian history, values, cultural skills, politics, communication styles, economy, beliefs or practices to college, work, and home life.

Apply

Personal connections to Native Hawaiian history, values, cultural skills, politics, communication styles, economy, beliefs or practices into social contexts, contributing to the community.

Core Contexts:

Mālama ‘Āina. ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i. Mo‘olelo. Moʻomeheu.

 

I Ka Wā Ma Mua, Ka Wā Ma Hope: Bridging Past and Present to Guide the Future - Sample Performance Assessment [PDF].

 

This project was supported by a U.S. D.O.E. Title III Native Hawaiian Serving Grant.