PDP & Source Evaluation: Personal and Professional Development

This report outlines a personal development plan (PDP) focusing on short-term, medium-term, and long-term academic goals, providing personal examples for each. It details the importance of skills development with a timeline, resources, and progress monitoring strategies. The report also evaluates the effect of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance on source credibility, emphasizing the need for structured research and proper citation. The final section presents a source evaluation table, analyzing various sources based on author, purpose, reliability, and relevance, with references provided for all sources cited. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study tools and solved assignments for students.

Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and Evaluation of
Sources
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Task One:..................................................................................................................................1
Concept of personal and professional development among students within academics........2
Discussion of the value within short term goals and personal examples...............................2
Value of medium term goals and examples...........................................................................2
Value of long term academic goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.......................2
Personal Development Plan...................................................................................................3
Task Two:.................................................................................................................................4
Effect of author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance jn sources...........................................4
Task Three:...............................................................................................................................4
Evaluation of sources.............................................................................................................4
References:................................................................................................................................7
Task One:
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Concept of personal and professional development among students within academics
The concept of personal, professional development in academics within career holds
high scale importance within academics for enhancing overall productive targets within
academics with efficiency, which enhances scope for professionalism among individuals.
Concept of professional development holds high importance, to prioritize efficacy among subjects and
to enhance goals formulation variedly for integrating best competencies engagement actively
(Nykanen and et.al, 2021).
Discussion of the value within short term goals and personal examples
The short term goals are goals formed for small time, based on less than 6 months’ target
which further enables and prepares individuals for attaining optimum efficacy within
personal lives as well as professionally. Examples of short term goals are based on aspects,
where working of any project, or any other skill professionally in profession is example of
short term objective.
 Getting a new certificate or degree.
 Improve your performance numbers in academics or in any subject
 Improve your networking and communication skills, by taking part in projects
Value of medium term goals and examples
The medium term academic goals are formed for attaining specific objective and
target, as per more expanded time than small term goals but shorter than long term which
enhances scope towards professional integrity rapidly (Torres Martín, and et.al, 2021).
Examples of medium term are based on aspect, where examples are taking up leadership
project, enhancing knowledge related to any specific project and taking up diploma course for
engaging with best skills.
 Study – Achieving more than 70% or higher in next academic exam
 Fitness – To gain strength in muscles, and reduce percentage of fat
 Money – Get job in desired company with good pay, for attending career new specific
medium term goals.
Value of long term academic goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
The long term performance goals in academics are identified and formed with focus on
extended time periods, where time period is over more than 1 year which further heads on
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profound focus on extended long term parameter. It enables individual to gain expertise,
smart professional acumen and also be specifically career focused for attaining competitive
performance. Examples of long term goals are as follows (Niklas and et.al, 2020).
 Getting desired savings done at certain age in life.
 Getting own house from savings
 Funding child course ad studies in graduation is also one of the long term goal
Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan and construction of goals enhances functional rise on
objectives correlated to academic’s performance, which enables resources to be used
competently for larger specific efficacy. The construction if PDP can be analysed as follows:
Skills Time target Resources to be
used
Monitoring of
progress and
measuring of
success
Strong
interpersonal skills
2 months Taking part in
teams, lectures and
online learning
sessions
Checking
performance in
teams and attending
immediately to
feedbacks
Data management
skills
3 months Lectures and
research question
papers
Checking results
from supervisors of
new projects and
tasks, which will
primitively enhance
my performance
Analytical and
critical thinking
skills
2 months Lectures and
research question
papers, digital
learning sessions
Checking results
from supervisors of
new projects and
tasks.
Leadership skills 3 months Taking up new team
leading opportunities
Checking results
from supervisors and
monitoring results of
team while taking up
opportunity as leader
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(Missingham, 2021).
From the above analysed PDP, professional work integrity and knowledge within
academics is enhanced within longer time periods among individuals for attaining optimum
targets in study and within overall career.
Task Two:
Effect of author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance jn sources
Author, purpose, reliability and relevance aspects, within source have high
importance and strong effect on usage of source which further enhances stronger accuracy
measures to be determined variedly for untapped functional synergy operatives rapidly. A
source is also strongly analyzed in proper format, when author and purpose, reliability factors
are organized in structured aspect which enables research to be presented in structured
format. The source citation and referencing, by detailed focus on authenticity enhances scope
for strengthened functional enhanced efficacy within academics which further integrates best
primitive advancement. Also by keeping up sources written in proper format leverages
functional rise variedly on keen parameters, which further adds to high quality scenarios
when research used in projects. Authenticity is developed variedly by segregating aspects
related to author, purpose, reliability and relevance factors for overall productive engagement
variedly within longer run in academics (Froiland, 2021).
Task Three:
Evaluation of sources
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Nykanen, D., and et.al,
2021, June. Developing
Academic, Professional
and Life Skills in
Undergraduate Engineers
Nykanen, D.,
and et.al, 2021
Purpose is of
this source is to
analyse
developing
academic
Highly reliable Relevant
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through an
Interdisciplinary Peer-
Mentoring Support
System. In 2010 North
Midwest Section.
professional
skills learning
within
interdisciplinary
peer mentoring
support system.
Refer to source 1 in
references
Froiland, J.
M., 2021.
Purpose is of
this source is to
analyse intrinsic
goals in
academics of
elementary
school students
Highly reliable Relevant
Refer to source 2 Missingham,
R., 2021
Purpose is to
identify New
Lens for
identifying new
assessment
based academic
aspects as
identified within
UN Sustainable
Development
Goals.
Highly reliable Relevant
Refer to source 5 Torres Martín,
C., and et.al,
Á. C., 2021
Purpose is to
analyse impact
of virtual
learning
environment due
to COVID-19
among students
Highly reliable Relevant
Refer to source 3 Niklas, F and
et.al, 2020
Purpose is to
identify
Highly reliable Relevant
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competencies in
home learning
environment for
studies in
academics
References:
Froiland, J. M., 2021. The intrinsic learning goals of elementary school students, in their own
words. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 61(4). pp.629-649.
Missingham, R., 2021. A New Lens for Evaluation–Assessing Academic Libraries Using the
UN Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Library Administration .
61(3). pp.386-401.
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Niklas, F and et.al, 2020 Children's Competencies Development in the Home Learning
Environment. Frontiers in Psychology. 12.
Nykanen, D., and et.al, 2021, June. Developing Academic, Professional and Life Skills in
Undergraduate Engineers through an Interdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Support
System. In 2010 North Midwest Section.
Torres Martín, C., and et.al, Á. C., 2021. Impact on the virtual learning environment due to
COVID-19. Sustainability. 13(2). p.582.
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