Assignment 4: Project Reflections

Instructional design involves continuous evaluation and requires you to identify areas for improvement as you learn new information. This assignment focuses on your reflection regarding the next steps for delivery and the concepts that you have learned throughout the design process. Prior to completing this assignment, use the Internet to locate and review at least three (3) Websites of relevant professional organizations for instructional designers.

Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

1. Determine three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Determine two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

2. Provide a review of the professional organizations you researched. Determine which organization you are most inclined to join and provide a rationale for your decision.

3. Recommend three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Provide a rationale for your response.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

•  Write clearly and concisely about issues in instructional design and development using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Points: 100 Assignment 4: Project Reflections Criteria Unacceptable Below 70% F Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B Exemplary 90-100% A

1. Determine three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Determine two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

Weight: 25%

Did not submit or incompletely determined three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Did not submit or incompletely determined two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

Partially determined three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Partially determined two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

Satisfactorily determined three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Satisfactorily determined two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

Thoroughly determined three (3) of your strengths regarding instructional design skills. Thoroughly determined two (2) areas of instructional design that you would like to learn more about.

2. Provide a review of the professional

Did not submit or incompletely

Partially provided a review of the

Satisfactorily provided a review of

Thoroughly provided a review of

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organizations you researched. Determine which organization you are most inclined to join and provide a rationale for your decision. Weight: 30%

provided a review of the professional organizations you researched. Did not submit or incompletely determined which organization you are most inclined to join and did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your decision.

professional organizations you researched. Partially determined which organization you are most inclined to join and partially provided a rationale for your decision.

the professional organizations you researched. Satisfactorily determined which organization you are most inclined to join and satisfactorily provided a rationale for your decision.

the professional organizations you researched. Thoroughly determined which organization you are most inclined to join and thoroughly provided a rationale for your decision.

3. Recommend three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Provide a rationale for your response.

Did not submit or incompletely recommended three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response.

Partially recommended three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Partially provided a rationale for your response.

Satisfactorily recommended three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response.

Thoroughly recommended three (3) changes that you would make to either the approach, strategies selected (including relevant instructional technologies), or evaluation type when revising the instructional design for stakeholders. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response.

4. Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting

• Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.
• Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.
• Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.
• Error free or almost error-free grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.

5. Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section

• Lack of in-text citations and / or lack of reference section.
• In-text citations and references are provided, but they are only partially formatted correctly in APA style.
• Most in-text citations and references are provided, and they are generally formatted correctly in APA style.
• In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.

6. Information Literacy / Integration of Sources

• Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations.
• Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
• Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques or quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
• Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

7. Clarity and Coherence of Writing

• Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
• Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
• Information is mostly clear and generally supported with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
• Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.