1. Welcome to your Portfolio Midterm!
There are three sections to your midterm. Please read instructions in each section and
follow the directions.
Section One:
By
Samantha Degen
It is important that you make a commitment to succeed in your college education. A
good way to finish what you start is to start well! In one paragraph or more write what
your intentions (right under this paragraph) are for this class and your college education.
Intention statements are commitments you make to do a specific task or to take a
certain action. Remember to be effective your Intention Statements must begin with "I
will" or "I intend to" NEVER "I WILL TRY". Saying you will try is not good enough to
bring about change.
As a college student I intend on being successful in the field of study I choose.
As of now I want to study in the field of nursing but I hope this class will better
help decide which career fits me best. I will become less of a procrastinator and
settle for nothing lower than an “A”. I intend on never giving up and staying
committed to completing each semester by attending my classes and arriving to
them on time. I will be more of a sociable person so that I can form and join study
groups with my peers to help better my knowledge for an upcoming quiz or test. I
will do all of the above to help for great success while attending college and let
nothing get in my way.

2. Section Two: There are three Learning Style inventories in this section. Please
read the instructions and follow the directions for each:
One tool that students find most valuable is discussed in Chapter 1 and that is
DISCOVERING HOW YOU LEARN. This information will help you to take advantage of
your strengths and shore up your weaknesses in both school and daily living situations.
Knowing this information will help you choose activities that match your learning style. It
will also help you understand why you struggle with some activities, professors, and
courses and not others. You may also begin to understand why you get along, or work
better with some individuals than others (it may help explain why you might disagree
with those you are close to as well).
Learning Style Assignment #1: VARK
Refresher - VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning
preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-
out information. Here is your assignment:
1. Copy and paste or type your VARK results.
My scores were:
2. Visual: 3
3. Aural: 7
4. Read/Write: 9
5. Kinesthetic: 8
6. Now answer the following questions:
a. What are your two highest VARK scores?
Read/Write, Kinesthetic
b. What are your two lowest VARK scores?
Visual, Aural
c. Read the Help Study Sheet a Guide to Learning Styles at:
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets

3. Click on each of the Leaning styles and read the study strategies.
d. Use one or more of the Learning Styles study strategies that you feel
would be most helpful to you and write a paragraph about each of the
following:
1. taking in information;
2. using information for effective learning;
3. communicating more effectively;
4. performing well in tests and examinations.
Write your Paragraph here: Learning style study strategies are great. While taking
in information the best strategy for me would be using visual approaches such as
drawing out graphs and diagrams explaining the information I’m taking in from
ether the professor or the text. As well as reading a writing. I feel a visual
approach would be also well for preforming well in tests and examinations it is a
great way to help study and it pops out more rather the written out notes. Visual
and reading/writing are also good approaches to use when communicating more
effectively its hold a lot of good information in your notes for effective study
groups. Visual and reading/writing are again good approaches for me to use
when using informant for effective learning. Both strategies are right there in
front of my face so I can go back to the information at any given time.

4. Learning Style Assignment #2: Myers/Briggs
The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to
make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and
useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random
variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic
differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.
1. Do the following:
a. Copy and paste or type your Score and Personality Type:
Score:
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
1 12 25 11
Personality Type: ENFJ
b. Since you have taken the Jung Test and know what your personality type
is go to this Website: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html
to Identify careers for your Jung Personality Type – you will see a list
of Personality Type Portraits.
What is your Personality Type Portrait?
Answer: The Giver
c. Next click on what your Personality Type is; a new window will open. Read
your Personality Type Portrait.
d. After reading the “Personality Type Portrait;” go to careers to learn some
of the careers that are possible for your personality type.
e. To do this: at the bottom of the article in the center of the page you will see this
image  click on the image to open the careers for your personality type, a
new window will open. What are the careers paths possible for your personality
type?

5. • Facilitator
• Consultant
• Psychologist
• Social Worker / Counselor
• Teacher
• Clergy
• Sales Representative
• Human Resources
• Manager
• Events Coordinator
• Sales Representative
• Politicians / Diplomats
• Writers

6. Learning Style Assignment #2: Myers/Briggs (Continued)
2. Now answer the following questions:
a. Do you agree or disagree with the results – why or why not
Answer: I disagree with the results because I feel answering questions
cannot determine your personality and whether or not a job suits you.
b. Do these careers match the careers you have chosen for yourself?
Answer: No
c. If no, will you change your career choice?
Answer: If I decide to change my career choice it is not because of my
scores on the personality inventory.
d. What can you do with this information?
Answer: I can use this information to further my knowledge about what
jobs best suites me although I do not feel that by answering questions the
website can determine whether or not a job is best for me.

7. Learning Style Assignment #3: True Colors:
Are you a thinker, always analyzing, like a GREEN? Do you prefer inspiring people and
building their self-esteem as a BLUE? Are you the responsible one who is always on
time and keeping everyone else on time like GOLD? Or do you thrive on entertaining
and persuading people, like an ORANGE? Take the FREE quiz now and find out what
color you are. True Colors, a personality system, has been around since 1979 when
Don Lowry modeled it as a graphical presentation of both Keirsey’s Temperament and
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The True Colors descriptions are listed at the end of
this document.
Learn how to:
Discover your unique gifts and talents
Soar with your strengths
Discover your passion
Express your heart and soul in what you do
Increase self-esteem, creating a positive, clear self-image
Become successful in spite of your fears
Do the test at the website: http://www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp
After you have completed the test:
1. What is dominant color (your highest score).
Answer: Orange
NEXT: Open and read the PowerPoint Presentation that is attached to
this assignment.
2. After reading the PowerPoint Presentation: Choose a color that is different
from your dominant color and explain how you would handle the following
situations:(BLUE)
A. Plan a trip to Europe.
Answer:
I would gather all my friends/family whom are attending the trip to
Europe with me and have them help me plain the trip step by step
planning the trip as a whole rather than by myself.
B. Diffuse an argument at work with an irate co-worker.
Answer: I would sit the co-worker down and discuss the things
about the arguments that got them to upset trying to work with them
rather than against.

8. C. Communicate with a supervisor, whose ethnicity is different from
yours, to solve a scheduling problem.
Answer: I would sit them down and go over it step by step in a way
we both would understand rather than getting aggravated and
walking away.

9. The National Student Success Institute The National Student Success Institute
Section Three: Emotional Intelligence Activity: Tapping into Emotions
Directions: The following are examples adapted from Joshua Freedman's At the Heart
of Leadership: How to Get Results with Emotional Intelligence. He argues that we often
experience emotions in a pattern. For example, similar situations will trigger a type of
response. It will help us, he argues, if we learn to recognize the pattern and to dig
deeper to explore the reasons why we feel the way we do. Then, we should look for the
wisdom in the situation and response; in other words, we should look for a lesson to learn
to improve ourselves.
Using the following "typical" college student examples, reflect on your emotional
reaction to these types of situations and what you think the wisdom, or lesson, is in
each.
1. EMOTION: DISCOMFORT
TYPICAL SITUATION: You walk into a class for the first time and the professor
seems uninterested to teach or uninteresting in general. You suddenly get worried that
you will not enjoy this class—and you have to have it for your degree.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION:
In this situation I would just suck it up attended my class daily and on time. I
would do whatever it is I have to do to pass all my assignments, quizzes, and
test.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson learned here is that you’re not
going to always be given what you want and sometimes you got to work
with what you got which is a great lesson not only about school but work
and life as well.

10. 2. EMOTION: ANXIETY/FEAR
TYPICAL SITUATION: You walk into class where the professor explains everything that
you are going to do this semester. He talks about a 15-page research paper, field studies,
and weekly journals. You don't even have access to a computer.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: I would simply go to a local library and
sign up for a library card and use the computers that the public supplies for us as
a citizen.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson learned here is there are always way
to work around things just because you’re in lack of some essentials needed to
complete your classes never means give up there’s always solutions you just got
to find the best one that fits the situation.

11. 3. EMOTION: EXCITEMENT
TYPICAL SITUATION: You find out that you won a scholarship that will pay for books,
tuition, and fees when you transfer to a four-year university next semester. You can't
wait to share the good news with your family because they were having a hard time
helping support you while you were in college.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: I would get home as quickly as I
can and tell them the great news including every single detail.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson learned here is hard work pays
off at times and a lot of the times you got to work hard for things they’re
not going to be given to you.

12. 4. EMOTION: JOY
TYPICAL SITUATION: You have taken your last final exam and will be graduating next
week in front of your family, friends, and co-workers—and a few people who thought
you wouldn't make it. You have a job ready and waiting for you in your field of study.
While the pay may not be high, it offers great opportunities for advancement. Your two
children are proud to tell everyone that their mom has a college degree, and you know
that they will be more likely to attend college because you did.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: I would be more than happy just to
be a great influence on my kids.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Hard work pays off and you could do anything
you put your mind to there’s no limits in life.