I became aware today that there are assessment guidelines for this blog issued by the ICA, together with criteria and a marking system. Well, my intention is to make the best out of this oportunity, so here is the plan:
- Make 3 – 4 entries a week
- Make a connection to at least one other student’s blogs and another webseite and speak about the influence of what I read on my learning
- Reflect on new ideas and make them my own and then act on them.
And here’s the original text from the ICA website:
Blog Self Assesssment
Journaling is great tool for anyone at anytime, but particularly for people going through a specific learning journey, as you will at ICA. By using the capability of the internet to Blog instead of using a more traditional form of journal, you have the added benefit of being able to make your learning journey available to others and to, in turn, learn from their reflections. You are also able to express yourself with graphics, links to other sites and other people’s Blogs as well as traditional text entries.
Why self assess?
Your Blog should help you to reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses. Self assessment assists you in this understanding.
Self assessment assists you to take responsibility for your own learning. Our aim at ICA is not only to prepare you to be a coach, but to prepare you to be a business manager. This requires energy, focus and, above all, organisation.
Most forms of assessment only assess the end point. Your Blog will chart your journey from a novice receiver of wisdom to a spectacular, aligned Coach. This entire journey is worth assessing, not just the end point and who better to assess this journey than the traveller?
When to assess?
Your Blog should be maintained throughout the entire course but only assessed at the end using the criteria and marking system below. You should only hand in your self assessment, not your entire Blog.
Criteria and Marking System.
Give yourself a mark for each of the criteria below and then write a paragraph or two describing why you gave yourself the mark you did. Send the completed paragraph to [their email address] You will notice that not all criteria have the same marks. That’s because some are more important than others and they are weighted accordingly.
Regularity – Give yourself a mark out of 10 for regularity of your entries. This does not refer to how long the entries were, but how regularly you made them. If you made 3 – 4 entires a week, this would be a 10. If you made a handful of entries throughout the program, this would be a 1.
Connection – Give yourself a mark out of 20 for how well your blog connects to other blogs and web sites. If you included at least one connection each week to both web sites outside the course and other students’ Blogs, and you showed how these web sites expanded your knowledge and understanding of coaching, this would be a 20. If you have only made 1 or 2 connections to other sites, and the relationship between these sites and your learning is unclear, then this would be a 1.
Reflection and Discussion – Give yourself a mark out of 20 for your ability to reflect on new ideas and make them your own and then act on them. Your Blog should chart the things that you have learnt in the course. If these ideas and concepts are simply reproduced like a shopping list, then this would be a 1. If you are able to discuss the content of the program in a way that shows that you have not only understood it, but have incorporated it into your own ideas and experiences to make it your own, then this would be a 10.