Performance Targets for Graduating Students

• Read a variety of materials, including original historical documents, literary and scientific texts and technical manuals, critically and with understanding.


• Write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences, paying attention to organization, syntax and conventions.


• Listen actively and critically as well as recognize slanted and/or complex messages.


• Express themselves effectively in a variety of forums.


• Use accurate and appropriate mathematical skills, models and strategies to solve and/or explain a variety of problems.


• Identify problems and suggest solutions for current local, national and global issues using relevant geographic, historical, cultural, scientific and political knowledge and information.


• Use current information technology to investigate and communicate effectively.


• Use appropriate team and/or independent strategies to achieve goals.


• Exhibit self-reliance, respect and concern for others, and a sense of social and political responsibility.