Use assessment to develop service-learning reflection course materials

The Reflection Rubric proposed by Barbara Olds is used to re-examine the reflection course materials developed previously for three common types of service-learning design project. The Reflection Rubric is based on the Reflective Judgment Model developed by Patrick M King and Karen Strohm Kitchener, and it can be used to assess and document the development of a student from an uncritical thinker to a Reflective Thinker-someone with "fully differentiated abstract categories who can see the problematic nature of controversies". The purpose of the reflection materials is for students to examine the societal aspects of engineering and technology by examining the larger issues behind the needs to which the service-learning projects are responding, and to explore the professional and ethical responsibilities of an engineer by focusing on doing the work of an engineer responsibly and well, whether in the workplace or in community service.