Student-employees are each at a different stage in the learning process. As employers, you provide a unique opportunity for students to engage in experiential learning. The list provided here is to assist you in creating a job posting: what are you hoping students will learn to do in your job? Use the words below not only to enhance the specificity of your job posting, but also to evaluate how you may engage in helping students learn while at the university. Each column represents a level of student learning development.
| Knowledge | Comprehension | Application | Analysis | Synthesis | Evaluation |
| Count | Associate | Add | Analyze | Categorize | Appraise |
| Define | Compute | Apply | Arrange | Combine | Assess |
| Describe | Convert | Calculate | Breakdown | Compile | Compare |
| Draw | Defend | Change | Combine | Compose | Conclude |
| Identify | Discuss | Classify | Design | Crate | Contrast |
| Label | Distinguish | Complete | Detect | Drive | Criticize |
| List | Estimate | Demonstrate | Develop | Devise | Critique |
| Match | Explain | Discover | Diagram | Explain | Determine |
| Name | Extend | Divide | Differentiate | Group | Grade |
| Outline | Extrapolate | Examine | Discriminate | Integrate | Interpret |
| Point | Generalize | Graph | Illustrate | Organize | Judge |
| Quote | Give examples | Interpolate | Outline | Plan | Justify |
| Read | Infer | Manipulate | Relate | Prescribe | Measure |
| Recall | Paraphrase | Modify | Select | Propose | Rank |
| Recite | Predict | Operate | Separate | Rearrange | Rate |
| Recognize | Rewrite | Prepare | Subdivide | Reconstruct | Support |
| Record | Summarize | Produce | Relate | Test | |
| Repeat | Show | Reorganize | |||
| Reproduce | Solve | Revise | |||
| Select | Subtract | Transform | |||
| State | Translate | Specify | |||
| Write | Use |
Source: McClellan, G., Creager, K., & Savoca, M. (2018). A Good Job: Campus Employment as a High-Impact Practice. Steerling, VA: Stylus Publishing.