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PSY 632 Module One Journal Guidelines and Rubric

Position on the Core Themes Journal activities in this course are private between you and the instructor. Journals will be used to reflect on the learning objectives for the course and how they relate to your development as a professional. The journal assignments provide an opportunity to connect the readings and professional practices to your own personal and professional experiences. Journals are intended to create a broader perspective on the developmental concept, and to provide you with an opportunity to critically examine and apply that concept through your own experiences.

Prompt

Position on the Core Conflicts Throughout the history of the field of developmental psychology, three core conflicts have emerged in the examination of the theories and concepts (nature vs. nurture, continuity vs. discontinuity, and stability vs. change). Your understanding of these conflicts will serve as a foundation for the examination of theories throughout this course, and it is expected that you may have preexisting preferences for one side or the other in each of these conflicts. In this journal assignment, utilize your professional and personal experiences as examples to:

• Describe the core conflicts (nature vs. nurture, continuity vs. discontinuity, and stability vs. change) by explaining each conflict with accompanying examples and a high degree of detail.
• Reflect on which side of each conflict you may hold a preference for as an emerging professional and articulate your position on each core conflict.
• Apply professional and/or personal experience to examine the three core conflicts. (You are not required to share personal or sensitive information.)

What to Submit

Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Journal assignments must follow APA-style citations, and word count must be a minimum of 350 to a maximum of 750 words.

Module One Journal Rubric

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (90%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Core Conflicts	Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a high degree of detail and clarity of each of the core conflicts	Journal provides evidence of clear comprehension for each of the core conflicts	Journal provides evidence of comprehension that may be vague or unclear for one or more of the core conflicts	Journal offers vague statements that do not clearly demonstrate comprehension of the core conflicts	30
Position	Meets “Proficient” criteria and provide specific rationale for the position stated for each core conflict	Journal exhibits a clearly stated position in regard to each of the core conflicts	Journal states position in regard to the core conflicts but lacks evidence to support one or more positions	Journal does not clearly articulate a position on each of the core conflicts	30
Professional and/or Personal Experience	Meets “Proficient” criteria and utilizes clearly relevant experiences described in detail that exemplify application of the personal/ professional experience to each of the core conflicts	Journal provides evidence of application of the personal/ professional experience to each of the core conflicts	Journal utilizes a description or an experience that does not clearly exhibit an example for one or more of the core conflicts	Journal does not utilize experiences that are relevant or clearly exhibit a connection to each of the core conflicts	30
Articulation of Response	Journal is free of errors in organization and grammar	Journal is mostly free of errors of organization and grammar; errors are marginal and rarely interrupt the flow	Journal contains errors of organization and grammar, but they are limited enough so that journal can be understood	Journal contains errors of organization and grammar making the journal difficult to understand	10
Total:	100%