psyc 3501 Personal Learning Analysis

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psyc 3501 Personal Learning Analysis

Preparation

Use the resources in your Weeks 5 and 6 What You Need to Know sections to explore each of the following cognitive concepts:

Metacognition.
Optimal challenge and performance.
Motivation and procrastination.

As you learn about metacognition, optimal challenge and performance, and motivation and procrastination, think about your areas of strength and greatest areas for growth in relation to these areas of the learning process. Be prepared to describe these strengths and areas for growth in your paper.

Professional Sources and Scholarly Research

Professional Sources and Scholarly Research

In your paper, you will support your analysis using at least four credible sources, such as textbooks, chapters in scholarly books, peer-reviewed journal articles, or information from professional organizations. These sources will help you to name and explain your strengths and opportunities for growth through the concepts explained in the sources. You can use the resources listed in the Weeks 5 and 6 What You Need to Know sections, or you may select your own professional and scholarly sources from the Capella library.

If you are unfamiliar with scholarly journals, review these library resources:

Assignment Instructions

Using the Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX], write a 5–7 page paper that addresses your learning processes in the following areas:

Metacognition.
Optimal challenge and performance.
Motivation and procrastination.

In your paper, do the following:

Analyze your skills in specific areas of metacognition, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.
Analyze the role of optimal challenge in your academic performance, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.
Analyze the role of motivation and procrastination in your academic performance, supporting your thinking with information from professional and scholarly sources.
Describe your areas of strength and areas for growth in learning.
- Describe your strengths in one or two paragraphs.
- Describe your areas for growth in at least one fully developed paragraph.
Choose one of your areas of growth and create a plan to strengthen this area. Identify some strategies and steps that you’ll take to continue to build this area of skill. Support your strategies with information from professional or scholarly sources.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- Check your spelling and grammar. Visit the Writing Center's Microsoft EditorLinks to an external site. page for tips on using Microsoft Editor to support your writing.
- Please feel free to write in first person (I, me, et cetera).
Sources: Use a minimum of four resources. Sources can be a combination of course resources, professional sources (such as a textbook), and peer-reviewed scholarly articles (no more than eight years old).
- Note on the scoring rubric that to reach distinguished scoring, you will need to apply information from professional scholarly journals to support your analysis.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting guidelines. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. page on Campus for guidance.
- Use in-text citations throughout your work and provide full references at the end of your paper.
Template: Use the Personal Learning Analysis Template [DOCX] for your paper.
Length: 5–7 typed, double-spaced pages of content in addition to a title page and references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 2: Analyze a personal learning process through theory and research.
- Analyze optimal challenge and performance in personal learning processes, and support analysis with professional sources.
- Analyze procrastination and motivation in personal learning processes, and support analysis with professional sources.
Competency 4: Apply metacognitive strategies to assess personal performance quality.
- Analyze metacognition in personal learning processes, and support analysis with professional sources.
- Describe areas of personal strength and areas for growth in learning.
- Describe a plan to strengthen an area for personal learning.
Competency 5: Communicate with clear purpose, organization, evidence, tone, and sentence structure.
- Address the assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
- Use APA style formatting for citations and reference list with only minor errors.