Academic Skills and PDP

This document discusses the concept of professional and personal development, setting short term, medium term, and long term goals, and the value of a personal development plan. It also evaluates the effect of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance on the use of sources and assesses eight sources used in a report plan.

Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and
Evaluation of Sources
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Task One:
The concept of professional and the personal development
The professional and personal development can be defined on the basis of binding
force by the virtue of which every individual human being and the organisation
involved in the learning procedure. The fulfillment of professional and personal goals
helps in terms of growth opportunities and objectives at a time of pre-defined time
period.
A short term goals with 3 personal examples
A short term goal is a term which is defined as short courses which are
made only for 1 to 1.5 years. It is simply defines as the bridge that
lessens the gap towards the long term goals.
Examples:-
 1 hour dance class daily from the 24 hours per day.
 Essay of 1 page on a good topic. For example, healthy living
lifestyle, workforce management and many others.
 A good certificate course of 1 to 1.5 years.
Value of medium term goals with 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are the type of goals which define as the tends to serving the
purpose of long term goal as well as short term goal. In the time span of 1 to 3 years,
the medium term goals are accomplished.
Examples:-
 A graduation degree from a good recognized college.
 Diploma courses and the certificate courses of three years.
 A house purchased to be temporarily and permanently.
Value of long term goals with 3 personal examples
Long terms goals are such type of goals which are useful in defining the
achievements that had been assumed or bound for a longer period of time. The long
term goals are made for 3 to 15 years.
Examples:-
 Running a business by own.
 Schooling for almost 12 years.
 To be awarded for your skill.
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Value of Personal Development Plan with example
A written documentation which contain some good measures and actions are
included in the personal development plan and they are taken on the basis of actions
and measures, taken by an individual on the basis of existing skills and competences
of a person. In accordance with it, it can be said that the personal plan of
development given an individual to increase their personality and enhancing skills
and become compatible for carrying tasks.
Skill Current
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Course of Action Time
period
Written
Communication
2 3.5 Writing 1000 words on
any topic regularly
45 days
Time
Management
4 5.5 Taking classes for
learning time
management and
seeking guidance from
the supervisor
55 days
Collaborative
Working
3.6 4.5 Working in the teams
and getting command
over team working
abilities
25 days
Task Two:
Effect of ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ on use of a
source
The four aspects including author, reliability, purpose and relevance are the
use of sources which states that the source is properly reliable, well planned and a
proper relevancy is there and has a purpose of the topic which gives a major impact.
The non-reliable sources and irrelevancy gives an inefficient and outdated result that
has no purpose and meaning which gives an impact.
Task Three:
Evaluation of eight sources used in report plan
Sources Author
(s)
Purpose Reliability Relevance
Academic
achievement to be
predicted and
properly attainable:
Early academic skills,
Rabiner,
D.L.,
Godwin,
J. and
Dodge,
The
contribution
made by the
academic
skills to the
life of an
individual.
Time period
should be not
more than 5
years.
The source is
quiet attractive
and significant.
It simply
related with the
academic skills
that is an
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social competence
and difficulties
attention. School
Psychology
Review, 45(2),
pp.250-267.
K.A. important part
of the
discussion.
The pre-school
development and
skills academics in
various children that
are born and preterm.
The Journal of
pediatrics, 158(1),
pp.51-56.
Aarnoud
se-
Moens,
C.S.H.
and et al
Finding the
major
scholarly skills
and existence
of the small
children
because they
are quiet
important for
the academic
skills
development.
It is
considered to
be reliable as
it is older
than 10
years.
This is
regarded to be
holding
relevance
because it
discussed the
skills
developed at
very early age
in children
which grow to
turn into
academic skills
in future.
Teaching and
learning handbook
from the higher
education: Academic
practice. Routledge.
Fry, H.,
Ketterid
ge, S.
and
Marshall
, S.
Learning and
facilitating the
context.
The source is
a little older
so it may
seem non
reliable but it
contains
information
on the
subject
matter of
report plan
Relevancy is
related to the
learning and
teaching that
takes place in
the HE
settings.
Academic writing
skills in the higher
education: a good
study of the
educational reform:
Language and
Education, 16(3),
pp.161-177.
Bacha,
N.N.
To elevate the
academic
Learners
writing skills in
HE context.
The source is
reliable as it
contains
information
about ways
of developing
the academic
writing skills
in the
learners.
This source is
quiet relevant
with the fact
that
educational
reform develop
their skills.
Higher education
skills: The ratings of
the improvement and
Chamor
ro‐
Premuzi
soft skills
development
for the scholar
performance.
10 years old
reliability.
The source
states that it
lays down the
importance of
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the differences basis:
Educational
Psychology, 30(2),
pp.221-241.
c, T.
and et al
developing soft
skills
The education of the
teachers, and young
childrens’s years
skills The pre school
programmes. Child
development, 78(2),
pp.558-580.
Early,
D.M.
and et al
Teachings
and learning
takes place in
classroom
It is reliable
as it not older
than 15
years.
It is relevant as
it consists of
the ways in
which teaching
and learning is
carried out
within the
classroom.
A review of rubric use
in higher
education. Assessme
nt & evaluation in
higher
education, 35(4),
pp.435-448.
Reddy,
Y.M.
and
Andrade
, H.
To
comprehend
how rubric is
used within
HE context
The article is
recent and
thus it can be
said to be
reliable
There is a
need to
contains some
information
about higher
education life
that leads to
development
of academic
skills.
Effect of using a
personal
development plan on
learning and
development. Journal
of Workplace
Learning.
Beausa
ert, S.
and et al
To carry out
personal
development.
Being a
current
article, this
source can
be said to be
reliable
This is relevant
as it contains
the impact of
personal
development
plan on
learning of an
individual.
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