Task 9: Reflective Letter-15 pts.
Findings
Role: Student
Audience: Professor
Format: Letter
Task: Reflection
ePortfolio Reflective Letter Assignment
In this assignment, you will look back on your experiences and work within the course, discussing what you have learned and how. Your Reflective Cover Letter is a source-based writing; consider using hyperlinks to directly link to the artifact/evidence from within your cover letter. Also consider addressing a spectrum of classroom activities as evidence of your learning, such as: in-class writing, blogs, class discussion, emails, essays (including process work, such as drafts, homework, peer reviews, etc.), presentations, and editing.
Content
- Persuade, both your instructor and the institution, that your work meets the objectives for this course. Discuss your learning experiences in this course, including any details that are unique to your own learning process, especially as represented by the contents of your portfolio. The course objectives are as follows:
- To effectively conduct a program evaluation.
- To understand the role of research in the evaluation process.
- To understand the use of evaluation in program planning.
- Recognize the components of an evaluation i.e. research methods, agency description, understanding population, stakeholders, and research.
- Understand similarities differences in the evaluator’s role and stakeholder’s role in the evaluation process.
- Learn to recognize stakeholders.
- Utilize stakeholder in the evaluation process.
- Understand the role of evaluation in the field of Human Services.
- Answer the following questions, using links or excerpts (visual, audio, or written) from your ePortfolio to illustrate your answers:
- Where your learning is demonstrated in the course?
- What areas did you feel you were most successful, or improved the most?
- How do you see this course’s content intersecting with your field or career?
- Have you been able to apply concepts you have learned in the course to what you do at work or in other courses?
- How, when, where and why you might use this information or skill in the future?