Strengths Quest Reflection Paper Strengths Finder Themes Portia Tinsley Concordia University Chicago Abstract This paper is a reflection of my Strengths Quest, Strengths Finder Insight Review. The Strengths Quest is a test that helps students, staff, and faculty achieve academic, career, and personal success (Strengths Quest). The test took about forty minutes and was about 120 questions about which way we would lean towards in a certain situation, it helps us to better understand our personality. Each question gave us twenty seconds to answer it going either way with strongly agreed, partly agree or neutral which was in the middle. This paper is going to be about my top five themes that I got from taking the test.
BIOL 1103L Carb Blocker Article Draft Writing-to-learn assignments are often called “low stakes” writing assignments because they allow you to explore topics of interest while not being graded for a large number of points; examples of these assignments that you are VERY familiar with by now are in-class experimental designs. The more you practice communicating science via these low-stakes assignments, the better prepared you will be to write about the process of science at a more intensive level (“mid stakes” and “high stakes” assignments that are worth more points and demonstrate your knowledge learned). This assignment is the draft version of your Carb Blocker Article. This is a mid-stakes assignment that requires you to demonstrate
Fisher and Geiselman developed an interview technique which was based on proven psychological principles conceiving effective memory recall. The original CI could be characterised by four distinct components. The first one is REPORT EVERYTHING which means that the interviewer encourages the witness to report all the details about the event even if they feel some details are unimportant or irrelevant. The second technique is MENTAL REINSTATEMENT OF ORIGINAL CONTEXT which means that the interviewer encourages the witness to mentally recreate an image of the incident, including details of the environment, e.g. weather and their feelings at the time of the incident.
Describe the Cognitive Interview (10) Over the last 20 years police have worked with psychologists to develop the cognitive interview, which is designed to take account of well-known cognitive functions and avoid any chance of leading the witness. The cognitive interview is a set of instructions given by the interviewer to the witness to reinstate the context of the original event and to search through memory by using a variety of retrieval methods (Fisher et al., 1989). So why does it work? Theoretically, the CI is rooted in cognitive psychology and rests upon two principal assumptions, first that memory of an event is made up of an interconnected network and that there should therefore be several ways of getting to the same point, and second that retrieval from memory will be more effective if at the time of retrieval the context surrounding the original events can be reinstated. Remembering some aspects of experience leads, by association, to other, but the sequence cannot be predicted and may seem confused to a listener.
He suggests we should study and adapt to the Asian education system. I think for the evidence provided by the author, for example, “ 75% say that school has taught them things which could be useful in a job,” there should be more details such as what grade are those interviewees in and the reasons why they have this idea. However, Schleicher's points of view are very credible and testable because he references some statistical data. And he constantly compares the differences between the Eastern and Western students which intuitively reflectes the existing of the problems. I strongly agree with author that a successful education is not about the students' talent, but constant hard work, creative use of knowledge and good teacher training can make ordinary students stimulate extraordinary talents.
Kohen et al completed meta-analysis of 53 students and found that 34% increase in correct recall using the cognitive interview when compared to a standard interview technique. This study supports the cognitive interview and suggest that witnesses are able to recall a lot more information on an event using
On the other hand, it’s much more objective and accurate to give scores based on the achievements of the student. In fact, this is a more commonly used way of assessing students. It’s because this takes less time and reflects the students’ performance better. Also, colleges and companies prefer a person who works really hard and gets a successful result to a person who does his best but fail in achieving his goal. Thus, grading based on the achievement is better to reflect students’ capacity that companies need.
However, face to face interaction can encourage max participation and increase learning in a proper setting. In some cases, there might be programs that require hands on instruction and demonstration, which is more easily achieved in a classroom setting versus online education (Tracy E Dickinson, eHow Contributor). Unlike online classes, you have immediate feedback from students and professors with traditional learning. The clarity of assignments is better because there is no room for misinterpretation. Also, attending a traditional classroom will allow the student to have access to a structured environment which could lead to better grades.
It is no coincidence that more mental health issues have arisen since the rise of social media. In the last 25 years, depression and anxiety rates have risen by seventy percent in teenagers. In the last three years, the number of hospital stays for teenagers with eating disorders has more than doubled due to comparing themselves to celebrities and models seen on social media (“How Social Media Can Affect… n.p). This along with other things have caused many issues that have been observed in research. A group of people conducted a experiment in 2011 to see if the “Facebook depression” epidemic was real.
Intelligence, in this case –the way that one’s mind works, is clearly inborn. Another argument supporting innate intelligence is that gender and intelligence is related (Seal, 1997). While this might be a controversial topic for some, there are many statistical facts on the matter that cannot be argued. Generally, males excel at logical reasoning and spatial relations, while females are better on tests of verbal capabilities and fine dexterity (ibid.). These particular differences either become more distinctive themselves as the person grows up, or orientate the person to enhance them in his education (ibid.).