Your Goal Grade
| 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 chose these five goals because I know that after achieving these goals, they will help me be prepared for the future, I will know how to think more critically when approaching situations, these specific skills can be lifelong learning skills that can help me in the future that I wouldn’t have thought of. The assignments that I’m most excited for is the survey assignments and just conducting surveys. An assignment I feel like that’ll be most challenging is the final project assignment but I say this because it’s always most likely the project that challenges everything I’ve learned over the semester and makes me think on what I know and don’t know and recognize some things I may have to revisit. Some strategies I want to set for myself to make the semester a success is to have discipline, to not procrastinate, make better study habits and to turn work in on time.
Midterm Introduction
I have learned so many skills and content during the first half of the semester. I what I enjoyed the most is how to read data, how to tell the difference from quantitative and qualitative data, what is a mixed method and how to construct surveys. What I struggled the most was reading new content for class discussions and readings. Some of the readings were hard to understand or uninteresting and having to pull data from those type of readings makes it difficult. Some goals I feel as if I’ve most excelled at is being able to think outside the box and also ask questions when I don’t understand even if I’m wrong, it’s better to ask questions than being wrong and/or confused. Some goals I haven’t met yet is being able to turn my work in on time. I feel as if I procrastinate so much that it puts me behind just a little so to fix this I have to balance my time and go into better environments that’ll encourage me to get my work done.
Final Introduction
After the second semester I feel as if I met my goals I had set for this semester. There were a few challenges. Some challenges or something that surprised me is the tension me and my research team had between each other trying to communicate orally, think critically and take risks to get the job done. Even though I had those challenges I feel as if I got through it all well and it helped me with a lot of life long skills I could use for next semester and the future. What I can remember to take into my future courses is that it is okay to take risks in assignments to learn to create new knowledge, uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject, evaluates texts’ scholarly significance to apply reading to other contexts or issues and many other things.
Course Goals
(20%)2b : Take risks in assignments and in approaches to learning to create new knowledge
| 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? |
| What I can do to learn the content and develop the skill is to step out of my comfort zone and ask questions about assignments that I’m not the best at and put in effort to learning new content to enhance my critical and creative thinking skills. | – Class discussions – Data Set Profile – Guest speakers – Final Project | During in-class discussions, I will be attentive, respectful, and engaged when discussions are happening. |
Final Project: https://prezi.com/p/hqf_tmwf_vbb/?present=1
Doing our final project helped me take risks by learning how to work with people even when we may have challenges and just learn to find new ways to solve those challenges.
^^ Class discussions
Guest speakers helps me achieve this goal by listening to unfamiliar information and possibly using it for the future, which can enhance my lifelong skills and help me think critically on how I can apply it to upcoming assignments or projects.
Data Set Review Assignment.docx
(20%)7b: Pursues knowledge and educational experience beyond the classroom
| 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? |
| What I can do to learn the content and develop the skill is to use the collaboration skills and knowledge I’ve learned last semester and help with future group projects to enhance my knowledge and educational experience beyond the classroom. | – Group work – Presentations – Chapter Readings – Top 5 | I will use the books and articles we will read over time, starting with Give Methods A Chance and also our article annotations I will read the articles given the Top 5 assignment through an appropriate lens so I can analyze them to come up with the best top 5. |
Group work
Presentations helped me understand how to not only present in class and learn how to engage and communicate with that specific audience but also outside of the classroom.
Doing the readings in class helped me learn more about the content presented to me.
(20%)13b : Uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject, conveying the writer’s understanding, and shaping the whole work
| 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? |
| What I can do to learn the content and develop the skill is to do writing assignments and get feedback to know how to write appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject. | – Reflection – Data Set Profile – Final Project – Top 5 | I will read the articles given for the Top 5 assignment through an appropriate lens so I can analyze them to come up with the best top 5. |
This reflection helped me develop the skill to think critically and write relevant and appropriate assignments
Doing the top 5 helped me be able to understand and take away from articles that I read from this class
Final Project: https://prezi.com/p/hqf_tmwf_vbb/?present=1
Doing the final project with my team helped me be able to communicate knowledge with my group and demonstrate different ways to go about a situation to help me write and relevant
Doing the data set profile helps me understand how to communicate the given and observed data, through writing it effectively and to my understanding of the content
(20%)1b: Connects and extends knowledge from academic study to civic engagement
| 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? |
| What I can do to learn the content and develop the skill is to strengthen my ability to solve problems and to elaborate on how I can learn to make a difference. I can learn how to make a change in the community or within classrooms when learning new content. | – Surveys – Reflections – Top 5 – Interviews | The reflections will allow me to reflect on the given material while also applying ethics to questions. My top 5 assignments will help me draw from what I read or watch and make observations and realizations that can support my ideas. |
We interviewed with our peers about their college experience
We learned how to use the Qualtrics website, to conduct surveys for lifelong skills and experience outside of the classroom and learn more about young adults in college
(20%)11a: Evaluates texts’ scholarly significance to apply reading to other contexts or issues
| 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? |
| What I can do to learn the content and develop the skill is to learn how to evaluate text through reading. Reading isnโt my biggest strength but what I could do to improve that is use assignments in class to not only enhance my reading skills but also apply reading to other contexts or issues. | – Top 5 – Reflections – Feedback – Data Set Profile | My top 5 assignments will help me use what I’ve read from the articles and apply it to other contexts and issues. Giving feedback or receiving feedback whether its from the class, group projects or even the professor, helps me learn how to evaluate the text, take constructive criticism and apply it to future assignments. |
