Your Goal Grade
Highlight the header for the column below to indicate which grade you plan to work toward in the course. Meeting the basic requirements for your chosen letter grade, according to the table below, is mandatory.
| A Work | B Work | C Work |
-Misses one class or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates all readings thoroughly -Makes substantive comments in discussions -Completes all assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Work demonstrates intellectual engagement, care, effort, and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates substantially, contributes to vision, works equally with peers | -Misses two classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates readings -Often participates in discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes most SAs on time -Work demonstrates care, effort and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates equally, completes required work | -Misses three classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Completes most readings -Sometimes adds to discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes at least four SAs -Meets minimal expectations on assignments; shows limited growth in response to feedback -Completes required collaborative work |
First-Week Introduction
I have started my second semester in CODES and a new class, Research and Systems and Thinking. I am very excited to have a new teacher. All of my CODES teachers are so nice and amazing. I don’t know exactly what I will be learning in this class, but how the program runs is different, so I know I will learn and build new knowledge beyond my average courses. One of the things that I may have challenges learning is working on new programs or systems of analysis, but over time, it will become a habit that will make my learning easy to accomplish assignments and analyze data from research. I hope to demonstrate my knowledge through the assignments on how to approach and write my research through the course of the class.
Midterm Introduction
So far, I have learned many things from programs on building and sending out a survey. One thing that I enjoyed was learning the different parts you need to review when writing survey questions. Simple is better; keeping questions short in 8th grade level for simple and fast reading with not to many opean repsongs. i feel that I still need to work on my first goal I haven’t challenge myself that much. but i sill have half of the semester to get myself on the right path and build a routine to stay organize and getting my work done on time.
Final Introduction
[Now that the semester is over, use your introduction to reflect in-depth on your process. How well did you meet the goals you set out to meet? What did you learn that surprised you? Focusing on your goals for this class, what do you want to remember to take with you into your future courses? What strategies can you use to continue developing toward these goals?]
Course Goals
Choose five goals from the CODES Student Learning Outcomes that you’d like to work toward. Choose goals that are relevant to the scope of this course, select artifacts/examples based on activities assigned for this course, and explain characteristics in a way that illustrates how your artifacts/examples demonstrate your progress toward the goal.
Goal 1 (20%)
2B. Critical & Creative Thinking – Takes risks in assignments and in approaches to learning to create new knowledge. (CODES Student Learning Outcomes): learn to explore new ways of approaching assignments with risks.
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
I will leave my comfort zone to try new methods to approach assignments. | – Reflections 5 – Final Project – Discussions – Find a survey assignment | Interaction in our class discussions by risk answers a question that I may not be sure about. Answer my reflection with different approaches and ideas. |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 2 (20%)
13B Written Communication – Use appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject, conveying the writer’s understanding and shaping the whole work. (CODES Student Learning Outcomes):
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| I will do this thing – research – notes – annotation – scrips | – assignment top 5s on readings – Plagiarism training – Final Project – Reflection 4 | showing understanding of the assignment what I read and what I learned from it on the paper by using how complex words related to the topics |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 3 (20%)
10A Quantitative literacy – Uses quantitative information to support arguments and draw logical conclusions. (CODES Student Learning Outcomes):
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
I will use collaborative learning and critical thinking when writing my assignment conclusion. | – Reflections 2 – Dataset Review – Article Annotation (Rawson & Munoz) – Data Notes | demonstrating my critical thinking on the reflection of our reading or how during our group activities, I used problem solving to come up with a conclusion to build a solution. |
For my goal 3, I decided to use most of the assignments I used in week 6 as they relate to data cleaning using quantitative and information-supporting arguments on the data provided to me by Dr. B. She showed us how to analyze the data number and response from one of her old surveys. From that week’s reflection, I could go through the assignments to write my reflection on the information. I learned that data cleaning is critical. It gives you easy access to format and analyzes your data from a more significant understanding.
Goal 4 (20%)
11C Reading – Reads using an appropriate lens and can engage in a continuing dialogue within and beyond a discipline or a community of readers. (CODES Student Learning Outcomes):
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
– reading more in deeply – identifying my lens – take notes and annotate | – discussions – readings – Reflection 6 – Article annotation | being able to enter the discussion with with a different view as to lens and, on my reading have notes to show my understanding , |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 5 (20%)
7A Skills for Lifelong Learning – Explores a topic in-depth, yielding rich awareness and/or little – known information indicating intense in the subject (CODES Student Learning Outcomes):
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
participating in class activities and discussions, taking notes, listening in-depth to guest speakers | – Psychology Groups – discussing -Building Survey – CITI Training Certification | had become a better note-taker and skills in research on specific topics during of class |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]