Learner Skills Assessment

After completing the learning assessments for each of the classes I chose to meet National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration’s (NASPAA) five core competencies, I feel as though I have a much more complete vision of what the MPA program is set out to accomplish for me in my academic and professional lives. The various assignments included in this portfolio were included because I feel they best represent my best work in the MPA program. NAASPA’s core competencies, I believe, are the living heartbeat of the MPA program. They include the ability to lead and manage in public governance, the ability to participate in and contribute to the policy process, to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems, and make decisions, the ability to articulate and apply a public service perspective, and the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry. All five of these competencies are crucial to thinking and planning strategically, manage services, understanding the complexities in, managing, and applying effective administration in all aspects of government.

One of my intellectual virtues is autonomy. I have always been able to function on my own, my comprehension of responsibility influences everything I do and everything that I work hard for. Motivated by my independent nature, I push myself to grow. My parents trust me to make the right decisions for myself, however with this blind trust, they fail to feel the need to guide me. As a result, I became my own parent, relying on myself for guidance: making sure I stay out of trouble, always making have my homework done, not allowing myself to spend money frivolously. This aspect of my personality has always benefitted my performance in school.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2015) states that all nurses should be competent at carrying out an accurate assessment on patients of all ages safely using invasive and non-invasive procedures. Benner (1982) formed the stages of competency: Novice; this is where I started in year one, I had never done a manual blood pressure before and lacked confidence. Advanced beginner; this is where I feel I am at present, I can take a manual blood pressure with occasional supportive cues, I am more confident than the first time and my knowledge is improving. Competent; this is the stage I expect to be at when I qualify, I would like to feel confident and I intend to know exactly what I am doing and why. Proficient; this is where I expect to be

I chose this team and this topic because I am a nurse who recently started working in a CCU. We take care of cardiac patients, and we have to closely monitor their heart rhythms. So, I would like to learn to better identify dysrhythmias, to improve competency assessments, and to better implement current evidence-based practices.

The data set collected reveals the students within the Career and Technical Education program, throughout the school, division, and state, who have passed the occupational competency assessments and earned credentials recognized by the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) within the past three years. The assessments includes the NOTCI assessments, state licensure examinations, industry certification examinations, and workplace readiness skills assessments. The data presented is descriptive statistics. The scales of measurement that are used in this data set are ratio and ordinal. According to the student population represented in the first chart of the enrollment

As said in the assignment I have to select a topic which is taken with two peered reviewed journal articles to do a comparative analysis. The subject I choose my articles are about gender and race in criminality. The two articles I selected were “Crime, Cops and Context” written by Andres F. Rengifo, Morgan Pater and Brenda J. Velazquez. The reason I choose the article is it seemed interested and informative. The second article is “Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Age on Criminal Punishment” written by Darrell Steffensmeier, Noah Painter-Davis and Jeffery Ulmer. The reason I choose the article is it looked similar to the first article, so I thougt it would be good to do a review on similar subjects.

In this self-assessment I will be writing an analyses of my skills during my in class mini interview evaluation. I will be focusing on the following: relationship, inform consent, micro-skills, and overall impression.

Disraeli). It is November 1st and I have just found out that I have three assessments

This VARK assessment was a learning assignment to help me see what type of learning style I have. If I figure out what type of learner I am, I would be able to have better skill to help me in the long run. I took this assessment in my college 105 class, on October 26,2016. This assignment really did teach me a lot about the many learning skills.

In this chapter I discovered many new things about myself, it has been very benifical to have taken the tests in this chapter and learn how to better study and learn. I thourougly loved this chapter because of the things I have discovered and learned. This chapter was very helpful and relevant for every day life and practical. In the first test, I learned that I am a visual and interpersonal learner. I plan to use this information to the fullest by studying taking notes and using colored pencils and highlighters. Utilizing charts, graphs and timelines is also a great resource. Vizulaization is key in this learning style. But also, to study in groups and discuss this information with people. It is highly

Use the form below to assemble your Skills Assessment summary. You will submit this completed form as evidence of your assessment.

What type of information a teacher is attempting to gather will determine what method of assessment will be used. If the goal of the information is to determine students place compared to other students, a norm-referenced test would be used. Norm-referenced tests can measure a student’s mastery of a variety of skills at one time, although not as accurately as a criterion-referenced test. If a teacher’s goal is to determine the student’s proficiency level of one particular skill, a criterion-referenced test would be administered. This type of test is specific to the skill that is being tested. This test results show quickly if a student has mastered or failed the particular skill being tested.

I received a score of 33 out of 50 on my study skills assessment. I have a lot of room for improvement and I am not fully using my study strategies to the most potential. Currently my study habits include completing all homework assigned, studying for tests only a day or two before the assessment, and I make sure to mark any information I do not fully understand so that I can ask about it later. I take a full schedule of difficult coursework that occupies a lot of my time, stretching me thin. I find it troublesome to sit down and effectively study without becoming fidgety or frustrated. It would be beneficial to me to discover the best times and places that would give me the most out of my studying time. Another improvement would be to do weekly reviews on coursework to keep the information fresh in my mind. To keep me motivated and on track a schedule would be useful to aid in block out times to study one subject at a time. I definitely using some study skills to my advantage but there are a lot of skills that would benefit me that I haven’t quite tried.

Although I don’t feel like I have many natural talents, a few of the ones that I do possess are linked to independence. I’ve always been very good at taking responsibility for myself as well as motivating and managing myself.

I found the Read section’s skill assessment both interesting and useful. I wrongfully assumed the assessment would be scored based on the sum of my responses, and that the score would be used to extrapolate some generalization about my personality. I was surprised to find that was not the case. After reviewing my responses to the exercise, I learned that, although I like to think that I possess solid leadership abilities, the skills l listed in my weaknesses category are littered with words like “management” and “leadership” (Bethel University, 2014). Because I doubted the veracity of my own responses, in addition to surveying myself, I enlisted the help of my fiancé to evaluate me using the skills found in the assessment. I then compared her results to that of my own and discovered, much to my astonishment, that both our assessments were congruent.