Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Researching ideas 
CRP-HS.06.02 Creates new and worthwhile ideas using both incremental and radical concepts.

• Consistently develops new and valuable ideas using both existing and new knowledge, as well as existing and new resources.

• Develops new and valuable ideas using both existing and new knowledge, as well as existing and new resources.

• Develops new and valuable ideas using existing knowledge and resources.

• Does not attempt to develop new and valuable ideas.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Reflecting on ideas 
CRP-HS.06.03 Elaborates, refines, analyzes, and evaluates their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts.

• Extensive reflection of own ideas and incorporates changes in creative efforts demonstrating an understanding of the value of analysis and implementation of change.

• Reflects on own ideas and incorporates changes in creative efforts to improve the value of their work.

• Reflects on own ideas and attempts to incorporate changes in creative efforts to improve the value of their work.

• Poorly attempts to reflect on own ideas.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Originality 
CRP-HS.06.04 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work.

• Consistently demonstrates creativity in a variety of situations.

• Demonstrates creativity in most every situation.

• Demonstrates creativity but does not have a realistic understanding of how to express it.

• Does not demonstrate creativity.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Applying ideas 
CRP-HS.06.05 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.

• Continuously applies creative ideas to make a real and useful contribution to their work.

• Applies creative ideas to make a real and useful contribution to their work.

• Develops creative ideas, but does not understand how to apply them to the situation.

• Rarely attempts to develop creative ideas.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Working creatively by self-direction 
CRP-HS.06.06 Monitor, define, prioritize, and complete tasks without direct oversight, based on their own creativity.

• Monitors, defines, prioritizes, and complete tasks without direct oversight in a variety of conditions.

• Monitors, defines, prioritizes, and complete tasks without direct oversight.

• Attempts to monitor, define, prioritize, and complete tasks without direct oversight.

• Attempts to monitor, define, prioritize, and complete tasks with direct oversight.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-06]: Creativity
Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Innovation through diversity 
CRP-HS.06.07 Leverage social and cultural differences to create new ideas and increase both innovation and quality of work.

• Demonstrates a high level of cultural and social understanding and respect for the uniqueness of others.
• Encourages discussions to develop new ideas through active listening and offers opinions for increasing innovation and quality of work.

• Demonstrates an appreciation of cultural and social understanding and respect for the uniqueness of others.
• Actively discusses avenues to develop ideas and presents encouraging opinions for increasing innovation and quality of work upon request.

• Demonstrates a limited appreciation of cultural and social understanding and respect for the uniqueness others.
• At times appears indifferent to the others.
• Supports own ideas but appears not to be flexible enough to improve innovation and the quality of work.

• Demonstrates no appreciation of cultural and social understanding and respect for the uniqueness others.
• Demonstrates intolerance and lacks social interaction skills.

Career Ready Practices

CRP-07: Research Skills

Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Evaluating material 
CRP-HS.07.01 Evaluate information critically and competently.

• Thoroughly evaluates the reliability of the source and the information researched, using internal and external validation.

• Thoroughly evaluates information researched, using internal and external validation.

• Evaluates information researched, but not thoroughly.

• Does not evaluate information.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Collecting data through technology 
CRP-HS.07.02 Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.

• Effectively and consistently applies the use and understanding of technology as a tool for learning and communicating.

• When collecting, organizing, evaluating, and communicating research, technology is effectively utilized.

• Uses technology to collect, organize, evaluate, and/or communicate information, but does not do so on a consistent basis.

• Does not use technology effectively to collect, organize, evaluate, and/or communicate information.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Accessing diverse sources 
CRP-HS.07.03 Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources).

• Identifies key concepts of research conducted, acts on informed decisions to revise the search, and selects information based on reliability of resource efficiently and effectively.

• Considers more than one strategy or tool when engaged in the digital information fluency process if the first strategy or tool is ineffective.

• Demonstrates an attitude of adaptability to respond to inconclusive or ineffective search results.

• Completes simple research strategies and sources, often not retrieving accurate or complete information.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Analyzing source bias 
CRP-HS.07.04 Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs.

• Consistently is successful at analyzing and evaluating evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs.

• Is effective in analyzing and evaluating evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs.

• Is not thorough at analyzing and/or evaluating evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs.

• Does not complete analysis or evaluation of evidence, arguments, claims, or beliefs.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Analyzing one's own bias 
CRP-HS.07.05 Effectively analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view.

• Embraces learning about material from different points of view and is unbiased in analyzing the material.

• When analyzing and evaluating material is unbiased.

• Believes they are able to analyze and evaluate material from a different point of view without being biased, but is not successful.

• Does not respect the view point of others while analyzing and evaluating material from a different point of view.

Career Ready Practice [CRP] Standard
[CRP-07]: Research Skills
Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

Connecting data to argument 
CRP-HS.07.06 Effectively synthesize and make connections between information and arguments.

• Is able to apply the connections between information and arguments in order to support a perspective.

• Is able to understand and make the connections between information and arguments.

• Is able to understand there is a connection between information and arguments, but is not able to determine what it is on their own.

• Does not attempt to understand the connection between information and arguments.