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Issues in Diversity Assignment - Reflective Essay

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Conscious and unconscious factors impact how we behave; therefore, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) provides an avenue for assessing one's biases.

In this test, you will complete a categorisation task, and short survey about your attitudes. Each time you begin a session you will be randomly assigned to a topic and should take between 10 - 15 minutes. At the end, you will receive feedback about your performance. Complete at least two (2) tests (see below for details of the relevant tests to choose). Please note only you and the IAT researchers have access to the results of participation.

There are three purposes of this assessment. First, this assessment may raise your awareness of your own conscious and subconscious perceptions or biases, helping to identify whether they are congruent with one another. Second, it provides an opportunity to reflect on how your past and current experience may contribute to your conscious and subconscious perceptions and biases. Third, it assists in learning how your perceptions or biases may influence how you interact with diverse others in your personal and professional settings.

Instructions for the assignment:

Go to the Website Project Implicit. Go to "Take a Test" (located on the bottom of the page) Click on "I wish to proceed"

Agree to continue and pick two tests. You can choose two from the following: Gender-Career, Gender-Science, Race, Arab-Muslim, Religion, Asian-American, Age, Sexuality and/or Disability.

When you finish you will be given "results". Print the test results provided by the program and keep these for the purpose of writing this reflective piece (you may be asked to produce evidence of participating in this test)

You are then required to write a reflective piece by discussing how your results reflect unconscious cultural and social conditioning. Specifically, discuss what personal, social, generational, cultural, workplace and/or educational experiences might have influenced the results (or unconscious bias, if any)?

Important Note: You are not required to share thoughts and experiences that are very personal to you. It is entirely up to you to share thoughts and experiences that you feel comfortable with. The key is to demonstrate insightful thinking and application of theories, frameworks and practices addressed in this course.

The following from RMIT Learning Lab offers excellent recommendations on reflective writing: Writing_academic_reflection_accessible_2015

Note - Choose two of this content and use results to write reflections. Take Two test from above And use results to write reflection

Length: 1500 words.

Attachment:- Issues in Diversity Assignment File.rar