Your Task in This Assignment Is to Work with a Group

question 9

Essay

Your task in this assignment is to work with a group to develop a "Course Mission Statement" in which you lay out your expectations for the course, your instructor, and yourselves. To write the mission statement, follow these steps:
a. Use an Internet search engine to find examples of mission statements. Just type "mission statement" into Google, Bing, or Yahoo.
b. In class, with your group, identify the common characteristics of these mission statements. Pay special attention to their content, organization, and style. Make note of their common features.
c. With your group, write your own course mission statement. Be sure to include goals you would like the course to meet. You might also want to develop an "ethics statement" that talks about your approach to ethical issues associated with assignments, course readings, and attendance.
d. Compare your group's course mission statement with other groups' mission statements. Note places where your statement is similar to and different from their statements.
When your course mission statement is complete, it should provide a one-paragraph description of what you are trying to achieve in your class.

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory

The part of the memory system where small amounts of information can be stored for a brief period of time.

Information-processing Theorists

Researchers who study how human beings take in, utilize, store, and retrieve information, emphasizing the mental processes involved in cognitive development.

Theory Construction

is the process of developing a systematic framework of concepts and propositions intended to explain specific phenomena or guide research and practice.

Theory Theory

The Theory Theory is the idea that children attempt to understand the world by forming and testing theories about physical, biological, and social phenomena in a manner similar to scientists.