Self-Reflection and Process Worksheet

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Assignment 2: Self-Reflection and Process Worksheet

One of the most important elements of this observation project is to gather your own data through observation, interaction, and communication.

Tasks:

Throughout the course, as you worked on your community agency observation, you have been:

  • Completing the Weekly Self-Reflection Process Worksheet.
  • Click here to access the template.
  • Researching your organization, significant multicultural issues, and other pertinent scholarly research to complete your assessment and evaluation inModule 5.

For each observation visit (Modules 3–5), you must complete a copy of this Weekly Self-Reflection and Process Worksheet. Remember to write clearly and check spelling and grammar because these sheets will be included in your final product.

In a one-page paper, reflect upon how your thoughts, opinions, and any preconceived ideas have changed over time with each observation. What has changed and why? Discuss the new perspectives you may have gained as a result of the observations and the introduction of new content. How will you apply what you learned from the observation experience to your current or future career in health services?

Submission Details:

  • By Wednesday, October 28, 2015, save your self-reflection process worksheet as M4_A2_lastname_firstinitial.doc and submit it to the M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Completed the self-reflection process worksheet.
56
Researched the organization and significant multicultural issues and looked through other pertinent scholarly research to complete the assessment and evaluation in Module 5.
28
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
16
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New Findings and Theoretical Developments

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The text should follow a Microsoft Word format, a letter size twelve (12) and a spacing of one and a half (1.5) between sentences (or line spacing in the paragraph options). The extension of the work should not be less than three (3) pages or greater than five (5) pages of content.

 

 

 

Instructions:

In the third unit we have discussed the controversy around the publication in the 1990s of Charles Murray’s and Richard Hernstein’s The Bell Curve and the various responses from specialists in the field of psychology, mental tests and even evolution that try to prove the problems with how we interpret the correlations between “IQ”, “Intelligence”, “Race” and various other social factors, among them “Social Class (or Social Economical Status)”, “Profession” and “Education (or the very limited concept of “Schooling”). Taking this into consideration discuss why many specialists question these correlations and determinisms, specially how the differences of intelligence and social economic status can be solely explained though the concepts of “IQ” (or the “g” factor) and “Race” (assumed as a biological, pre-determined and culture free construct).

 

 

 

It is advisable that you take into account the following “guidelines” when elaborating your discussion:

1. How Neisser’s task force report (composed of specialists in the field from the APA) or other groups efforts by other psychologists (among them Nisbet, Sternberg or even the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould), have shown how these correlations are problematic, discussing that in reality we can’t think of biology (or of genes) without taking into consideration the influence of the environment. Give at least two examples from these texts that show that “IQ” and “Race” cannot be assumed as fixed, exhaustive and causal factors that explain the inequalities of education, social-economic status or others social factors.

2. The political effects of The Bell Curve’s thesis and conclusions, that in many ways justify (be it directly or indirectly) racially biased and extremely limited explanations regarding the role and importance of education and any kind of social and environmental reform.

3. Some, like Gould, would argue that these theses and conclusions (from The Bell Curve are a continuation (or a sort of “resurrection”) of old forms of racism. In this sense, the problem is not only the validity of “IQ” as an exhaustive measure of “Intelligence” or of the “g” factor as an inherited and fixed measure of “Intelligence”, but the validity of “Race” as a fixed and biological construct. Various specialist, among them Gould and Sternberg, will argue that, in reality, our uses of the concept of “Race” as a biological construct are problematic and in many way pseudo-scientific.

4. Use at least two (2) of the assigned texts. Limit yourself to said texts and the discussion in class.

Assigned texts (in the order they were assigned).

Neisser, U. et al (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. American Psychologist 51 (2): 77-101.

Nisbet, R. et al (2012). Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments. American Psychologists 67 (2): 130-159.

Fenwick, L.T. (1995). A History of the Constructs of IQ and Race: Putting “The Bell Curve” in Perspective. Paper Presented at the Annual Book Review (February, 1995): 3-17.

Sternberg, R., Grigorenko, E. & Kidd, K. (2005). Intelligence, Race, and Genetics. American Psychologist 60 (1): 46-59.

Gould, S.J. (1995). Ghost of Bell Curves Past. Natural History 2: 12-19

 Gould, S.J. (1996). Alfred Binet and the original purposes of the Binet Scale. In Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (176-188). New York: W.W. Norton

Gould, S.J. (1996). H.H. Goddard and the menace of the feeble-minded. In Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (188-204). New York: W.W. Norton

How does this type of assessment support you as the caregiver or teacher in your quest to ensure growth?

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Portfolios

As Chapter 9 of your text discusses how portfolios are used to develop a holistic picture of a child’s abilities. As a teacher, your role in portfolio assessment is a vital one, but as Wortham (2012) discusses, so is a child’s parent. For this journal entry, reflect on the importance of portfolio assessment in the classroom or childcare center.

How does this type of assessment support you as the caregiver or teacher in your quest to ensure growth?
Also, what are some ways that you can include parents in the portfolio assessment process, and why is this important for you as a teacher or caregiver?
How will you involve children in the portfolio process?
Lastly, how will you ensure parents see what is in the child’s portfolio?
Journal Options:

Written reflection journal.
Create a Voki.

8 years ago

Effects of classical music on cognitive development

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Many products, diets, and services are marketed to parents as beneficial to infant or toddler development. In order to increase sales to parents and caretakers, some companies use marketing strategies that make exaggerated, unfounded, or unrealistic claims about the effects of their product(s) on child development. Select one claim that you suspect to be exaggerated or false (your research may in fact show the claim has validity). Describe in detail what the advertised product, diet, or service is supposed to do. Some examples are:

  • Educational videos as related to language development
  • Effects of classical music on cognitive development
  • Benefits of soy diet or organic food diet on physical and cognitive development
  • Service promising to teach your 18-month-old how to read
  • Any other claim made by a manufacturer or service provider, aimed at enhancing infant or toddler development

Write a 1,400- to 1,650-word paper addressing the following:

  • What area or areas of development does the product, diet, or service claim to enhance?
  • Use the UoPX library to investigate the claim. What does the published literature say about the issue or concern that you are investigating? What does the research reveal about how to promote healthy development in this area or areas? What does this reveal about the necessity and actual benefits of the product, diet, or service?
  • Is there any evidence to support the claim? Why or why not?
  • Imagine that a licensed psychologist in your state publically endorsed a product with no empirical evidence supporting its claims.  It was later discovered that the psychologist was receiving a percentage of money from the sale of the product to parents.  Is this a violation of the APA code of ethics?  Explain.  Be sure to cite the appropriate section or sections of the Code in your response.

Investigate the claim using your textbook and a minimum of four additional scholarly sources (such as peer reviewed journal articles).

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Note: You will most likely be able to find peer-reviewed journal articles on the general issue that you are investigating. For example, if you are investigating educational videos that claim cognitive skills in infancy are enhanced by using a particular approach, you can review and evaluate studies that focus on enhancing cognitive skills in infancy. Be sure to consider both sides of the issue:  evidence for and against specific techniques and summarize your findings.