good student. By having good critical thinking skills you will produce great schoolwork and make better choices. The University of Phoenix has a vast amount of resources to aid in student learning. There are strategies to learning and tools to be explored at the university library and writing center. While everyone has different learning styles, establishing educational goals, exploring university resources, employing academic integrity, and developing excellent critical thinking skills leads to academic
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“The wrong sorts of evaluation tools focus solely on the instrumental value and ignore the intrinsic value, threatening the future of the humanities in higher education”. The disconnect happens when humanities is analyzed through the scope of a STEM lens which has a different perspective on how society and individuals should function. Humanities builds the individual and gives them a base to use for STEM and analyze the data it produces for new technological advancements. The iPhone a primarily recent
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Bias Indiana Wesleyan University School of Business and Leadership MGMT- 515: Business Communication Dr. Jeff Boyce Cognitive Bias The cognitive bias that affects my critical decision making processes is the Hindsight and Curse of Knowledge bias. I predict outcomes without acknowledging the correct outcome. I often use this bias when I watch sports. I am an avid fan of basketball, and I typically like to predict the outcome of games and even the entire season. Cognitive bias is processing
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Continuing Academic Success Continuing academic success goes further than just being in good standing within a university, or showing adequate progress towards a degree. It also includes creating your own goals that you need to work towards while continuing your education. Whether those goals are purely academically based or those goals pertain to what you want from your schooling to better your career and life, that decision is up to you. In the following paper I will share with you my own personal
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information process, especially when dealing with large volumes of debatable or uncertain information. Automatically, our minds will evaluate or conclude a piece of information based off our personal experiences, perceptions, or through our world ‘lens’. This type of unconscious bias leads to an analyst being closed-minded, resistant to change, or not willing to think outside the box. In addition, this “can cause analysts to overlook, reject, or forget important incoming or missing information that
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affect the company’s image that I am employed by, also the individuals of the company. In the simulation they are several ethical decisions that are made through several repeatable models that can provide a desirable outcome of the dilemmas. The ethical lens uses different perspectives from each different dilemma. I am able to arrive at this by a range of perspectives with favored outcome providing an appropriate ethical position for the appropriate situation. In the first dilemma I have learned that one
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Continuing Academic Success Sylvia Hayes Gen/201 - Foundations for University Success February 9, 2015 Jason Decremer Continuing Academic Success There were so many fears that held me back from going back to school. The cost, time, the fear of failure all played a part in me putting off making such a big decision in my life. Being that I am also married and together we have a 3 year old boy makes the situation even more difficult. Being a mom, wife and working a full-time
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entirely new level of understanding can be achieved by going to see a dance performance, or by taking a dance class from a different dance teacher. I want your time in dance to be new and exciting. With that said, I want you view dance through a new lens, and by seeing a performance or taking a new class, you can achieve a different perspective. Assignment: For this term I will be asking you to go and see a dance performance or take a dance class outside of Helix. Please, no music concerts or
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Intro Within the following essay I will discuss two topics, the first being statements, focusing on the jurat and the crucial part it plays in a statement. The legislative and procedural requirements will also be addressed along with the affects of not abiding by this legislation and procedures. The second topic to be discussed will be the scientific method of investigation and the effects that tunnel vision and group think play have on it. With in this topic I will outline the steps involved in
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Concept Map and Reflection Approaching my concept map for a second time was more challenging than I thought. I thought having deeper understanding of inquiry pedagogy would make the process easier but in reality, once I began to add concepts demonstrating how they are interconnected in a readable way proved difficult. I have learned throughout this year that inquiry pedagogy is complex which makes it feel overwhelming to implement. However, placing my growing understanding and knowledge
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