Academic Skills Assessment And Reflection

 

Knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are will help you understand steps you should take to improve as a student. GCU would like to assist you in improving your study habits and notetaking.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Evaluate your study skills and habits by completing the “Academic Skills Worksheet.” After completing the self-evaluation, reflect on your evaluation.

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Reading In The Content Area

Present in your posting a content-area book that can be used to explore such emergent text structures as schema, questioning, visualization, inference, and meaning making. What content-area book will you use? How will you engage or motivate students to comprehend using specific text structures as identified in the readings? How will you assess comprehension of reading in the content areas in such authentic assessments as drawings, compositions, or storytelling as illustrated in the readings?

See an assessment sample, visualizations for sunflakes in Figure 2 of “Kindergartners Can Do It, Too! Comprehension Strategies for Early Readers,” page 517.

Deliverables An Overlooked Essential Nutrient

The title of your presentation is Water: An Overlooked Essential  Nutrient. A law firm has requested that you introduce yourself, explain why you are at the firm, and discuss the value of hydration. Once those elements have been addressed, the goal of this lab is to create an essay  or handout that compares water, Gatorade, and Powerade in the following categories.

  • Daily recommendations
  • Nutrient content
  • Varieties/sources
  • Cost
  • Advantages of consumption (include research reviews)
  • Safety levels
  • Disadvantages of consumption (include research reviews)
  • Conclusion

Ultimately, you need to make a recommendation on which beverage meets the needs of the law firm, and you need to back your recommendation with three pieces of evidence.

Milestone Five: Communication And Evaluation Plan

HCM 490 Milestone Five Guidelines and Rubric Overview: In this milestone, you will submit your communication and evaluation plan for your project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

II. Phase II—Communication Plan A. Communication and Management Strategy: Your total communication plan should address the strategies and practices you will employ to

communicate to the proper stakeholders at the proper times. In this section, you should detail your comprehensive approach for how you will communicate this change and its impact, how you will keep people informed of the project’s progress, and how you will keep people informed of the project’s ongoing results.

III. Phase III—Evaluation Strategy: This plan for managing and measuring progress and success of your initiative should include the following: A. A discussion of the specific goals and milestones of implementation of the initiative. Lay out your goals in a clear, obtainable fashion to ensure

that progress milestones are clear, reasonable, and consistent. B. Specific definitions of measures of progress toward obtaining the intended goals and a description of the tools that you would use to measure

progress. What strategies will be used to measure success, and how will adjustments be made should progress toward these goals fall short or change?

C. How do you intend to collect and analyze information to ascertain stakeholder satisfaction with the initiative? What information will be looked at, and who are the stakeholders that will be considered?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: This milestone should be no more than seven PowerPoint slides in length. All references should be cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Communication

and Management Strategy

Explains the strategies and practices to communicate to the proper stakeholders at the proper times, including how to communicate this change and its impact, keep people informed of the project’s progress, and keep people informed of the project’s ongoing results

Explains the strategies and practices to communicate to the proper stakeholders at the proper times, including to communicate this change and its impact, keep people informed of the project’s progress, and keep people informed of the project’s ongoing results, but lacks detail or clarity

Does not explain the strategies and practices to communicate to the proper stakeholders at the proper times, including to communicate this change and its impact, keep people informed of the project’s progress, and keep people informed of the project’s ongoing results

23

Goals and Milestones

Discusses the specific goals and milestones of implementation of the initiative

Discusses the specific goals and milestones of implementation of the initiative but lacks detail or clarity

Does not discuss the specific goals and milestones of implementation of the initiative

23

 

 

Measures of

Progress Provides the definitions of measures of progress toward obtaining the intended goals and a description of the tools to measure progress

Provides the definitions of measures of progress toward obtaining the intended goals and a description of the tools to measure progress but lacks detail or clarity

Does not provide the definitions of measures of progress toward obtaining the intended goals and a description of the tools to measure progress

23

Stakeholder Satisfaction

Explains intention to collect and analyze information to ascertain stakeholder satisfaction with the initiative

Explains intention to collect and analyze information to ascertain stakeholder satisfaction with the initiative but lacks detail or clarity

Does not explain intention to collect and analyze information to ascertain stakeholder satisfaction with the initiative

23

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

8

Total 100%

 

  • HCM 490 Milestone Five Guidelines and Rubric
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