DOC 700 WEEK 1 Doctoral Demeanor and Student Accountability
Doctoral Demeanor and Student Accountability Worksheet
Earning a doctorate means reaching the highest educational level in your field. As a member of the doctoral community, you assume a privileged role in society. Your behavior, attitudes, and way of thinking all reflect your role—inside and outside of the classroom.
InSAS, the term doctoral demeanor refers to the personal attributes that shape a student’s doctoral identity. For example, doctoral demeanor may entail balancing confidence, competence, and high achievement with the humility that comes from continuous learning. As you progress in the program, your ongoing challenge will be to shape your doctoral identity to accept increasing levels of accountability and leadership in society.
As a member of the doctoral community, you are also expected to demonstrate doctoral-level accountability for the learning process. The following table outlines key aspects of doctoral learning.
Doctoral Demeanor and Student Accountability Worksheet
| Doctoral learning consists of… | |
Student-Driven LearningØ Taking responsibility for reading the syllabus and meeting all course requirements and deadlines
Ø Taking initiative to engage others and co-create the class experience
Ø Using syllabus instructions and course materials to self-assess learning
Ø Making adjustments to ensure continuous improvement and development | Active and Engaged InquiryØ Learning how to learn and critically think in a scholarly way
Ø Providing insightful, original responses and comments from your perspective
Ø Accepting ambiguity and complexity
Ø Thinking for oneself, adding new value, and creating one’s intellectual voice |
| Doctoral Learning is not… | |
Passive LearningØ Asking redundant questions; holding others accountable for one’s own performance
Ø Expecting the facilitator to dominate the dialogue and provide “all the answers”
Ø Waiting for the facilitator to provide a score or grade
Ø Making the same mistakes; blaming others for one’s mistakes | Passive ThinkingØ Memorizing facts and concepts without adding original analysis or reflection
Ø Providing rote answers; making vague, superficial comments
Ø Seeking only simplistic, familiar, or “black and white” answers
Ø Reiterating others’ ideas without adding new value or relevance |
Answer the following reflection questions, providing substantive responses (150 words minimum, each):
- How do you already demonstrate a doctoral demeanor in your personal, professional, and/or community life; and what aspects are you adding to your daily life?
- What would happen if you were to change your demeanor in your personal, professional, and/or community life?
- How do you envision your demeanor changing as a result of participating in the doctoral program?
- What behaviors will maximize your successful entry in the program?
- What expectations do you have of your classmates and faculty members in the program? What do you think your classmates and faculty members expect of you?
- What changes do you need to make to move from passive thinking to active- and engaged inquiry?
Doctoral Demeanor and Student Accountability Worksheet
DOC 700 WEEK 2 Qualifying Scholarly Sources
Instructions:
Complete the following Source Comparison Table to evaluate each article against the criteria in the first column. An example of an entry is included below.
Example:
| Source Evaluation Criteria | Smith (2007) | Ballinger andSchoorman(2007) |
| Use of APA Format for In-Text Citations and References | No in-text citations or references | APA format for in-text citations, but not for references |
Source Comparison Table
| Source Evaluation Criteria | Smith (2007) | Ballinger andSchoorman(2007) |
| Authors’ Credentials and Affiliation | ||
| Source Publication(i.e.,Publication Venue) | ||
| IntendedAudience | ||
| IntendedPurpose | ||
| Use of SupportingEvidence | ||
| Value as a Doctoral Research Source |
Answer the following reflection questions by typing your answer directly below each question.
Note. Both sources cover the same topic—leadership.
- What similarities and differences do you find when comparing the two sources’ research value to your doctoral journey?
- In what ways do you see evidence of scholarly voice, practitioner voice, and leadership voice in the two articles?
- How is APA style and format used in both articles? What is the purpose of using APA style?
- How will you apply these insights in your doctoral research?
DOC 700 WEEK 4 Revision Template
Revision Template
Follow the instructions provided in your syllabus and prepare a response to the feedback you receivedon the Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Essay to complete the table below. Use Microsoft® Word formatting features to add rows to the template, as needed.
Student’s Name:
| Faculty Feedback(Include comment numbers, as appropriate) | Faculty Feedback in My Own Words | My Detailed and SpecificAction Plan to Integrate Faculty Feedback in My Revised Essay(Include APA manual page numbers, as appropriate) |
Please list any specific questions you have about the feedback you received.
DOC 700 WEEK 3 Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Paper
Review the Materials included with this assignment.
Write an 875- to 1,050-word paper analyzing and evaluating the relationship between information literacy—as described in the literature—and each aspect of the scholar-practitioner-leader model as it relates to your professional context. Your paper should:
- Explain the topic of information literacy as critical to your doctoral success.
- Summarize your analytical framework, as derived from your analysis.
- Describe the findings of your analysis. Note: Pay special attention to the analytical operations mentioned in the rubric.
- Explain the assumptions underlying your conclusions (evaluation).
- Support your conclusions with informed, reasoned judgments that draw upon evidence from the literature.
Consider the questions below as you write your analysis:
- What would a leader in your discipline look like with no scholarly background?
- What would a practitioner in your discipline look like with no leadership skills?
Consider the questions below as you write your evaluation:
- What if scholars in your discipline had minimal access to information literacy materials?
- What is something that you’re doing in your discipline that relates to information literacy? How does it connect to the SPL model?
- What is the value of SPL access to information literacy in your discipline?
Include four sources in your paper. Three sources must be from the assigned Electronic Reserve Readings. The fourth source must be from a peer-reviewed source of your choice.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
Note. No author’s note or abstract is required for this assignment.
DOC 700 WEEK 5 Revised Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Paper
In Week 3, you completed an analysis and evaluation of the literature to inform the development of your SPL paper. In this assignment, you will engage your informed voice to expand upon the Week 3 SPL paper by adding a layer of creative synthesis.
One important way to develop synthesis is to re-frame from a scholarly perspective to a professional perspective. This can help you to create a new design or professional practice of information literacy. You can also move towards synthesis by asking new key questions about information literacy which have not been asked in the materials you have read thus far.
Your Week 5 assignment submission should include the following:
- Refine your Week 3 Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership paper by implementing the faculty feedback and the improvement strategies from your Week 4 Revision Template.
- Differentiate your revisions using a yellow highlight or red font so they are visible to your faculty member.
- Add an additional section to your revised draft in which you add a layer of creative synthesis. To accomplish this, imagine you are in a room with the authors of your course textbooks. Expand on your paper by addressing the following questions:
- How will you contribute your informed voice to the conversation?
- What new understandings would be created as a result of your contribution?
- What professional practice do you think the authors are missing, that you could add?
- What if you extended the ideas into the future? What is a possible future information literacy model or metaphor or insight?
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment and self-assessment.
DOC 700 WEEK 4 Research Resources Scavenger Hunt
Research Resources Scavenger Hunt
| Visit the University of Phoenix Research Hub.Answer the following questions by exploring the Research Hub and its resources. |
Note: You are not required to become a registered user to explore the Research Hub content. You will be prompted to register at a later time in your program to correspond with your research agenda.
- List each name of the available University of Phoenix Research Centers.
- True or False?Proposed research activities that utilize UOPX students, faculty, staff, or data must be submitted to the Committee on Research (COR) using a formal Proposal to Conduct Research form.
- What is the function of the University of Phoenix Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
- Review the information included in the Research Hub Newsroom. Identify one newsroom item that relates specifically to your discipline and briefly summarize its content. How can you leverage the Research Hub Newsroom as you progress throughout your program?
- Review the Blog section included within one of the available research centers. Read and briefly summarize the content of one of the blog posts. How can blogs within the research center help you as a doctoral student in your research efforts?
- Use the People Search resource to locate two faculty members affiliated with a research center that interests you. List your selected faculty member’s name, research center affiliation, and ongoing/current research.
- Which of the University of Phoenix Research Centers do you believe would best support your current and future research efforts as a doctoral student? Why?
- Use the University Library to locate a published study in your area of interest. Provide a brief summary of your study. Determine from which University of Phoenix Research Center this study would have originated had it been published by a UOPX faculty member. Justify your determination.
