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Contemporary Workplace Project

Self-reflection Report

Each member should briefly summarize key aspects learned from this unit and how this knowledge can help you with your future career. Each member also reflects on their experience as a member of the team.

Evaluate, assess and communicate both personal and the team's progress and learning to a diverse range of audience.

Assignment Specifications
This assessment is intended to extend and explore students' ideas about the conduct of scientific research and working as a member of a team, whilst simultaneously determining the current limits of students' knowledge, skills and understanding.

Some of the topic areas, which may give you some ideas as to what you could discuss in your self- reflection report include:

Part A: Learning Experience

Write about what you learnt by doing your research project. For example, you may want to elaborate on the following topics:

• Investigating the literature to identify knowledge gaps, formulate research questions and define aims and objectives.
• Assessing the significance of a given research problem and the ability to demonstrate the importance of research.
• Understanding various research methods and the ability to choose the right method for research.
• Conducting literature reviews and judging articles based on merits and the ability to reconcile knowledge to answer research questions.
• Analyzing and reporting the results of scientific investigation with no bias or personal interpretations.
• Building-up discussions and making conclusions out of findings, supported by evidence and logical interpretations.
• Communicating the results of research to a diverse range of audience and the ability to reflect and respond to questions.

Part B: Teamwork Experience

Write about a range of issues related to your project and teamwork:

• Briefly reflect upon your own experience of participating in the group. Did it help you? Was it worth the effort? How could it be made to work better for you?
• What went right or wrong? If asked to do it again, would you change anything to make the group work more enjoyable and of benefit to your study?
• Briefly discuss how, if you were a member of a discussion and support group, what strategies and methods you think you could use to minimize or overcome misunderstandings that might occur within your group, as a result of language or cultural differences.
• Briefly discuss how, if you were a member of a discussion and support group, what strategies and methods you think are more useful to overcome difficulties that might occur within your group because one or more of your group members is/are not participating in an appropriate manner, for example, insufficient work or inappropriate behavior.• Briefly describe and discuss one topic, issue or question where you think that your knowledge and understanding was clarified, expanded or improved by contributions from other members of your group.• Briefly describe and discuss one topic, issue or question where you think you made a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of other members of your group.

Expectation

Your assessor expects that you will seek guidance on any uncertainties you may have in completing this assessment to the best of your ability. It is expected that you embrace the opportunity to develop new skills and explore a creative way of representing your experience in studying this unit and working with group members. It is also expected that all work submitted has already been edited for spelling, grammar, clarity and conciseness.