Executive summary and conclusion

PPD211 CRAFTING YOUR FUTURE Task brief & rubrics COURSE EXAM

Task

One of the most important tasks in your life is getting to know yourselves. The more you understand your personality traits, the different levels of your intelligences

and the skills you are good at, in parallel to matching or mismatching the skills you will need to develop to achieve future challenges, the better you will achieve

your personal, professional and family success.

For this reason the final exam of this course will be focused in digging into yourselves. Please read and follow the steps below in order to prepare the report. Do

not forget to take into consideration my tips for producing a great report.

• This is an individual paper

• Title of the Course assignment: “Personality Traits, Values and Skills of (Name of Student)”

o Format: MS Word document

o Word count: 1,000 words

o Contents

▪ Cover Page

▪ Table of Contents

1. Executive summary

2. What do you perceive as your main personality traits?

• Make a quick description of yourself, before you take any test

• Select 3 different personality tests of your choice (List will be provided)

• Do the tests

• Summarize their results

• Describe the different meanings of each personality trait regarding your specific test results

• Report if you agree with the test results. Report any mismatch you may identify (your opinion of yourself versus the tests)

3. Describe how good you are regarding the different types of intelligence (naturalistic, musical, logical-mathematical, existential,

interpersonal, bodily- kinaesthetic, linguistic, intra-personal and spatial)

4. Regarding your skills set:

• Describe your skills (at present)

• In relation to the 7 new skills for the future, explain if there is a match or mismatch with them in relation to your present case

• If you believe there is a mismatch, explain what can you do to develop those future skills

5. Conclusions

▪ Bibliography

Formalities:

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded from the total word count.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Double Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in the Harvard citation style.

Submission: Via Moodle (Turnitin). Deadline Sunday 16th January 2022 at 23:59 CEST

Weighting: 100% (Pass or not Pass)

Learning Outcomes: It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Appreciate the significance of student character formation and structure within personal development.

• Define and identify skills and competences, comprehend how they relate to personal development planning and employability.

• Identify different personal business mindsets.

• Discuss about the different components that shape the development of student individuality.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(20%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Critical Thinking (30%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.

Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spell check

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spell check

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the word count limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed word count excessively and misspelling errors are evident.