After watching the video What is 21st century education? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,include the following reflections in your journal:

Part 1: Content/Course Reflection

• Compare and contrast assessment in 21st century to assessment of the past. What has changed and why? What laws and reform movements have created the change?
• Describe what important trends you see for the future of assessment in both the social and global context. Provide a rationale for why you feel these trends will be important.

Part 2: Program/Personal Reflection

• Complete the Leadership Self-assessment rating scale. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Provide a 200-word rationale that explains why you rated yourself as you did in each area.
• Describe your plan for how you will ensure assessment in your school or center is responsive, flexible, and integrated (Singh, 2013).

Suggested Journal Length: One to three double-spaced pages (not including title and reference pages).

Integrative and Critical Thinking Expectations (demonstrated within the content of the journal):

• Connections to Experience: Meaningfully synthesizes connections among experiences both within and outside of coursework to deepen understanding of fields of study and to broaden own points of view.
• Reflection and Self-Assessment: Envisions a future self (and possibly makes plans that build on past experiences) that have occurred across multiple and diverse contexts.

Research and Resource Expectations:

• Sources are not required for your journal assignments. However, if you need to cite information, you must cite in APA format and include a reference page.

Writing and Formatting Expectations:

• Professional Reflective Voice: Journals may be written in a less formal, but still professional voice (avoids casual language). First person voice is encouraged.
• Organization: Demonstrates logical progression of ideas.
• Syntax and Mechanics: Writing displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• APA Formatting: Papers are formatted properly and all sources (if used) are cited and referenced in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment

Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion and submit in Waypoint for evaluation no later than Day 7.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria t

The social environment in which an organization exists influences the way it operates when dealing with clients and employees. Viewing organizational life through the values embedded in its culture can help leaders create and sustain agencies of integrity. Regardless of whether the organization is in the government or nonprofit sector, administrative attention to the organizational culture can promote ethical behavior among employees. Government and nonprofit public administrators must have an understanding of how an organization’s culture might lead to potentially unethical policies and practices.

In this Assignment, you examine how an organization’s culture influences ethical decision making in an organization.

To prepare for this Assignment, review this week’s resources. Select a government or nonprofit organization with which you are familiar and a specific policy or practice within that organization. Avoid choosing an organization or agency where you currently work or have worked in the past. If you do choose such an agency, do not name it or individuals who work in it specifically. Remember to protect confidentiality.

Consider how organizational culture can influence the creation of ethical and potentially unethical policies and practices within the government or nonprofit organization you selected. Also, think about how the organizational culture might have influenced decision making and the development of specific policies and practices. Finally, consider how the specific policy or practice you selected presents an ethical dilemma and how you might resolve it by using Cooper’s ethical decision-making model from the text.

The Assignment (3–4 pages in APA format): Your paper should include the following:

• A brief description of the government or nonprofit organization
• A brief summary of how an organization’s culture can influence the creation of ethical and potentially unethical policies and practices
• An explanation of how the organization’s culture (norms, customs, and traditions) might have influenced decision making and the creation of specific policies and practices
• A description of a specific policy or practice that presents an ethical dilemma and an explanation of how that specific policy or practice creates the dilemma
• An explanation of how public administrators might use internal and external controls to maintain responsible conduct in the public organization
• An explanation of how, as a public administrator, you might resolve the ethical dilemma, using the ethical decision-making model presented in the text

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. Provide a reference list with all resources included in the paper.