Module Eight Activity Guidelines and Rubric.html
Overview
Before you can decide which strategies will help you improve your emotional intelligence, you need to know more about the current emotional intelligence skills you possess. In this assignment, you will take a short emotional intelligence test to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses. Then, you will outline some strategies to develop and improve on these skills.
Prompt
Take the and reflect on the results. Then, write a short paper to discuss the results and describe an action plan to improve your emotional intelligence.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Summarize the results of the test:
- Explain whether you agree with it and why.
- Describe what you’ve learned from it, such as your strengths and weaknesses.
- Write at least two specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals to improve your emotional intelligence skills.
- Describe the strategies you will use to reach these goals.
Guidelines for Submission
Write and submit a short paper of about 500 to 750 words that describes an action plan to improve your emotional intelligence skills. Include all citations for resources you reference in APA format.
Module Eight Activity Rubric
Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
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Explain the Results of the Test | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes test results, provides well-thought out arguments to support or refute whole or part of the results, uses test results and self-reflection to identify strengths and weaknesses related to emotional intelligence | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include vague or generic explanation with minimal self-reflection and insight | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
Create Goals to Improve Emotional Intelligence | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Describes at least two specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals to improve emotional intelligence skills | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include missing, incomplete, or vague goals | Does not attempt criterion | 30 |
Describe Strategies to Improve Emotional Intelligence | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Describes at least one relevant strategy each to reach the identified goals | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include missing or vague details about proposed strategies, missing details about how they will help reach a specific goal | Does not attempt criterion | 30 |
Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas | 15 |
Citations and Attributions | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors | Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution | 5 |
Total: | 100% |
