Create a 3-5 page paper that communicates your ideas and describes your vision of yourself as a multicultural practitioner-scholar. Create your assessment in a provided template that will guide you as you respond to the assessment requirements.
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Introduction
It can be a daunting prospect to jump into the first assessment in the first course of your FlexPath master’s program. This assessment has been designed with that in mind. The length of time it will take to complete this (and all assessments) will vary from learner to learner, but remember that you may submit each assessment up to three times, making changes and improvements based on feedback from your faculty. It’s important to have a vision of what you want to achieve when beginning an academic program. This assessment will help you clarify your vision.
Note: The assessments in this course build upon one another, so you are strongly encouraged to complete them in sequence.
Overview
Creating a plan for your career is like planning a journey. The more clearly you can envision the destination, the easier it is to lay out the path in front of you. When working through the resources for this assessment, you used critical thinking to explore your passions and interests in psychology in relation to the practitioner-scholar model. This assessment asks you to put your ideas together in your vision as a multicultural practitioner-scholar. The assessment also provides an opportunity to receive feedback from your instructor to help you further clarify your vision of your future in the field of psychology.
Preparation
As you begin to write this assessment, consider the following:
- Purpose: The purpose of your vision is to create an inspirational and realistic description for how you want to contribute to your specialized field of psychology based on your passions and interests.
- Primary audience: Because this is a personal vision statement for your future career, you are your primary audience. Envision yourself in a time where you are frustrated and want to throw in the towel. What would help you remember your purpose and inspire you to continue moving forward toward your vision?
- Secondary audience: Your vision should also be clear to other people (such as family, friends, and your instructor) so you can share it with them and receive support to achieve it.
- Sources: Locate at least three relevant scholarly sources. You will reference these to support your ideas.
- Writing your paper: Be sure to comply with the requirements stated below. Your writing in this assessment should not just be a collection of notes, lists, or questions and answers. Instead, it should be a well-organized discussion that flows logically from one idea to the next.
Example Assessment: You may use the following for an example of the way this paper should be organized and to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like: Assessment 1 Example [PDF].
Instructions
Complete the following in the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC] template:
Introduction
Use this space and information from the Articulating Your Purpose media activity to create an introduction to your paper that addresses the following:
- Explain your passion and interest in psychology and how these relate to your previous personal and professional experiences.
- Provide contextual information someone else would need to know to fully understand your vision.
- This could include your previous personal and professional experiences related to your vision, any major influences that led you to psychology and your specialization, why your passions and interests in psychology are important to you, and any other relevant information to provide context for your vision.
Assessing the Value of Resources
In this section, discuss how you assessed the value of the resources you read and used when writing up this paper. Make sure to address the following:
- Discuss why it is important to consider diversity, equity, and inclusion when conducting psychological studies.
- When diverse populations are used in research groups, how does that make the results more credible?
- What role do critical thinking and ethics play when assessing the value of research used in your papers?
Role As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar
In this section, reflect on the information you read regarding the practitioner-scholar and scholar-practitioner models to answer the following:
- Discuss critical thinking in relation to your role as a practitioner-scholar.
- Explain what it will mean to you to be a multicultural practitioner-scholar and how the practitioner-scholar model can help guide you in developing the knowledge, skills, and competencies you will need to reach your professional vision and goals.
Vision
In this section, develop an inspiring description of your future career vision as a multicultural psychology practitioner-scholar. Be sure to include a description of your role and the individuals you wish to impact and the setting in which you would like to work.
Conclusion
Use this section to explain the benefits of achieving your future career vision and becoming a multicultural practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and the importance and relevance of your vision and goals to your personal and professional aspirations. Also, describe how confident you are and committed to achieving your multicultural psychology practitioner-scholar vision. Think of this paragraph as a summary of important and relevant elements to motivate yourself to achieve your vision. Reference any supporting documents that helped you clarify or describe these elements.
Your completed assessment should include the following:
- Title page.
- Abstract: A concise summary of every main point in the paper.
- Introduction: A concise overview of the paper’s content.
- Body of paper:
- Introduction.
- Assessing the Value of Research.
- Role As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar.
- Vision.
- Conclusion: A concise summary of important points of the paper, explaining the benefits of achieving your future career vision and becoming an effective multicultural practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology.
- References.
Before You Submit
To maximize your scoring potential, be sure you fully address all assessment requirements and meet the criteria in the rubric that will be used to grade your assessment. It is helpful to self-score your paper using the scoring guide before submitting to be sure you are meeting the criteria for the grade you want to earn.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Template: Use the Your Vision As a Multicultural Practitioner-Scholar [DOC] template to format your paper.
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced content pages. The title page, abstract, and reference list are not included in this length.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- References: Include a minimum of three references. For this assessment, you may use the resources and articles from the Resources sections provided for this assessment. All references need to be cited in-text, according to current APA standards. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them!
- Communication: Must be clear, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, and with good organization.
- Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
- APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance. Include a title page, abstract, and reference list.
- Submitting your work: Once you are satisfied with your assessment and have made all necessary revisions, submit your assessment no later than 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
- Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
- Explain what it will mean to be a multicultural practitioner-scholar and how the practitioner-scholar model can be a guide in developing the knowledge, skills, and multicultural competencies needed to reach a professional vision and goals.
- Competency 2: Analyze the quality of sources and research in psychological literature.
- Discuss why it is important to consider diversity, equity, and inclusion when conducting psychological studies.
- Discuss how diverse populations are used in research groups. Explain how the use of diverse populations makes the research results more credible.
- Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a psychology professional.
- Develop an inspiring description of a future career vision as a multicultural psychology practitioner-scholar.
- Include a description of a desired role and the individuals that role would wish to impact and a desired setting in which to practice psychology.
- Explain the benefits of achieving a future career vision and becoming a multicultural practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and the importance and relevance of that vision and goals to personal and professional aspirations.
- Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
- Describe the role critical thinking and ethics play when assessing the value of research used in papers.
- Discuss critical thinking in relation to the role of a practitioner-scholar.
- Competency 5: Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
- Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.