The student questions, examines, and evaluates a variety of media, points of view and data. The student’s evaluation leads to deeper understanding, resulting in the formulation of critical judgments.

The student independently identifies elements of an appropriately challenging problem, synthesizes the information and solves the intellectual or practical task, using a repertoire of problem-solving strategies, including breaking complex tasks into manageable parts.

With guidance, the student questions, examines and evaluates a variety of media, points of view and data. The student’s guided evaluation leads to deeper understanding, resulting in the formulation of critical judgments.

With guidance, the student identifies elements of an appropriately challenging problem, synthesizes the information and solves the intellectual or practical task, using a repertoire of problem-solving strategies, including breaking complex tasks into manageable parts.

Even with guidance, the student has difficulty questioning, examining and evaluating a variety of media, points of view and data.

Even with guidance, the student does not identify elements of an appropriately challenging problem, does not synthesize the information and does not solve the problem.