Regent College, Semester 1: Academic Skills and PDP Report Plan

This report plan focuses on personal and professional development, structured for a Regent College course. It begins with defining personal and professional development, emphasizing their roles in enhancing knowledge and confidence. The plan outlines the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, illustrating how these goals contribute to productivity, future success, and long-term sustainability. The report also addresses the importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) in creating pathways for career progression and self-improvement. Furthermore, the plan details the impact of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance on source usage. The report includes an evaluation of eight sources used, assessing their reliability and relevance, and concludes with a personal development plan outlining development objectives, strategies, and time goals. The appendices provide a detailed personal development plan with specific objectives and strategies for academic skill development.

Academic skills and PDP

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task One..........................................................................................................................................1
Define the concept of personal and professional development..............................................1
The value of short-term goals.................................................................................................1
The value of medium-term goals............................................................................................1
The value of long-term goals identifying...............................................................................2
The value of a Personal Development Plan............................................................................2
Task Two.........................................................................................................................................2
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source......................................................................................................................................2
Task Three.......................................................................................................................................3
Write an evaluation of eight sources used in the report plan.................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................8
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The academic skills and personal development both reflects successful advancement of
learning that assist to strengthen knowledge and building of adequate confidence in systematic
manner (Bruni-Bossio and Delbaere, 2021). The report is based on Regent College that is an
innovative gradation school of technology. The report below is comprised on concept of personal
and professional development, value of goal and
MAIN BODY
Task One
Define the concept of personal and professional development.
The personal and professional development is usually used to manage and control own
knowledge and learning through which possibility to perceived sustained development is attained
in progressive manner. In support of personal development social and mental skills get
improvised on the other hand professional development used to maintain suitable focus about to
improve adequate set of skills through which individual potential to survive in working
environment is developed in effective manner.
The value of short-term goals
The short term goals are those that are used to attain required amount of procrastination
that assist and allow maintaining focus about single thing at similar period of
instance(Dahl,2019). It assists to advance the productivity as with this individual become
motivate and connected towards its daily base activity and usually take about 12 months to
complete. The different short term goals are as explained as:
 Be attentive at all the classes in college
 Take participate in each practical session
 Enhance comprehensive skills set
The value of medium-term goals
The medium term goals are the basis of attainment of long term success as develop strong
base to future credibility’s. It is even more impactful as well through which possibility to
perceived higher attentiveness is developed as per accomplishment of suitable goals and
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objectives. It assists an individual to maintain clear track to perceived success as few are as
explain below as:
 To complete graduation from Regent College
 To take an internship in specified field
 To take higher knowledge and practice in certain field
The value of long-term goals identifying
The long term goals are used to achieve higher sustainability with this direct focus and
concern is maintained to precede higher working standards in future period of instance (Jironet,
2019). It is achieved as per within 5 years with this higher value is attained as per provision of
vision and mission. The long term goal is as attained below as:
 To get suitable job position and recognised company
 Achieve leading position
 Become experienced and specialist in certain field
The value of a Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan advance the ability to create and work of suitable pathway as
per maintain direct concern towards vision so that accurate goals are developed in beneficial
mode. In support of planning different prospect get use by business to advance career
progression, moving towards further education, self-development and improvement that are
developed as per consideration of organised actions (ElFiki, 2019). It also enhances the value of
self-interest, creativity, personal fulfilment and enthusiasm through which specific need and
development get processed in favourable mode.
Task Two
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source.
To advance the impact of source different element get considered such as author,
purpose, relevance and reliability through which generic and respective information is collected
and gathered in systematic manner. These all elements improvise the effectiveness of research
under which required information is collected that is not only impactful but authentic as well
(Cross Francis and et. al., 2019). The use of source is related to the rate of perfect data collection
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as per suitability of research so that probability to achieve higher similarity among requirement
and collection of data is processed with perfection.
Task Three
Write an evaluation of eight sources used in the report plan.
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
The Personal
Development Plan
Practice
Questionnaire: the
development and
validation of an
instrument to assess
the employee's
perception of personal
development plan
practice. International
Journal of Training
and Development,
15(4), pp.249-270.
Beausaert, S.,
Segers, M. and
Gijselaers, W.,
It is to make positive
change within
perception of personal
development in respect
of training and
development
Yes, as it is
belongs from
current year
Yes, as it
reflect
perception of
employee
during
personal
development
plan
The other curriculum:
Out-of-class
experiences
associated with
student learning and
personal
development. The
Journal of Higher
Education, 66(2),
pp.123-155.
Kuh, G.D., It provide suitable
information about
experience related to
learning and personal
development
Not reliable as
relates to more
than 10 year
back
No as
learning is
changed
within future
and current
styles.
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'An Unbelievable
Academic and
Personal Experience':
Issues around
teaching
undergraduate field
courses in Africa.
Journal of Geography
in Higher Education,
26(3), pp.327-344.
Robson, E.,
2002.
It provide information
about personal
experience during
under graduation
It is relevant as
provide suitable
experience
during
graduation
It is reliable
as belongs
from current
year
The academic career
as a developmental
process: Implications
for higher education.
The Journal of Higher
Education, 52(6),
pp.598-614.
Baldwin, R.G.
and Blackburn,
R.T.,
Provide information
about implication in
higher education
Not reliable as
belongs from 10
years back
Relevant as
implication
of higher
education has
direct impact
over
academic
development
Gifted youngsters
and their siblings:
Long‐term impact of
labeling on their
academic and
personal self‐
concepts. Roeper
Review, 10(2),
pp.101-103.
Colangelo, N.
and Brower,
P.,
It reflect general
information about
academic and personal
self concept.
It is not reliable
as it belongs
from way year
back
It is relevant
as youngsters
always
provide
adequate
direction
about to
precede
career.
Supported reflective
practice: a programme
of peer observation
Bell, M., IT reflects about the
observation about
academic teaching and
It is reliable as
belongs from
certain year
It is relevant
as
observation
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and feedback for
academic teaching
development.
International Journal
for Academic
Development, 6(1),
pp.29-39.
its development that
leads successful
change in learning
practice
and feedback
collection
brings better
clarity about
learning
Feminist co-
mentoring: A model
for academic
professional
development. NWSA
journal, pp.54-72.
McGuire,
G.M. and
Reger, J.,
It provide relative
information about
mentoring of academic
professional
development
It is reliable as
related to
current year
It is
relevance as
mentoring
has major
aspect during
academic
learning
Undergraduates in a
second language:
Challenges and
complexities of
academic literacy
development.
Routledge.
Leki, I., It offered respective
learning about
challenges and
complexity during
academic development
It is reliable as
related to
current year
Relevant as
provide
suitable
knowledge
about
challenges
faced during
development
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that personal development planning is used
to advance working and learning proficiency that assist suitable growth and advancement in
future period of instance. In this establishment of goals also aid to achieve higher sustainability
with adequateness.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bruni-Bossio, V. and Delbaere, M., 2021. Not everything important is taught in the classroom:
Using cocurricular professional development workshops to enhance student careers. Journal of
Management Education, 45(2), pp.265-292.
Dahl, K.K.B., 2019. Professional development lost in translation?‘Organising themes’ in Danish
teacher education and how it influences student-teachers’ stories in professional learning
communities. Research in Comparative and International Education, 14(3), pp.357-375.
ElFiki, T.M., 2019. A case study of the perceived effectiveness of administrative professional
development (Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University).
Liu, W.S., Li, X.W. and Zou, Y.M., 2019. The formation of teachers’ intrinsic motivation in
professional development. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 53(3), pp.418-430.
Ratnayake, I., Thomas, M. and Kensington-Miller, B., 2020. Professional development for
digital technology task design by secondary mathematics teachers. ZDM, 52(7), pp.1423-1437.
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APPENDICES
Personal development plan
Development
goal
Objectives Strategy for development Time
Academic
inscription skill
To advance the academic
learning capabilities in
successful manner.
To develop learning capabilities I
have tries to take more classes
through which working possibilities
is processed in timely constrained
5 Months
Critical
thinking skills
To access brainstorming
skills through which new
ideas and knowledge is
generate on regular basis
For this I have read and write more
so that basic concept get cleared
7 Months
Effectual
comprehension
skills
To improvise writing
capabilities with support
of academic literature
It is enhanced as by taking guidance
from teachers and get practiced
more.
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MonthLiu,
W.S., Li,
X.W. and
Zou, Y.M.,
2019. The
formation of
teachers’
intrinsic
motivation in
professional
development
. Integrative
psychologic
al and
behavioral
science, 53(
3), pp.418-
430.s
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