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
(Vanessa Madriz)
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.
I Vanessa Madriz intend to bring the very best of my ability in my education
and in my life choices. I know I will do amazing things with my life and pass my
wisdom onto others in need of help. I use to procrastinate of choices in my life
and I have directed my self to a more hopeful future and I can say I am extremely
proud. I’m more then positive my family and friends are very proud of me and
what’s more to come from me.

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.
1. Visual: 9
1. Aural: 11
1. Read/Write: 8
1. Kinesthetic: 10
2. Now answer the following questions:
a. What are your two highest VARK scores? Aural & Kinesthic
b. What are your two lowest VARK scores? Visual & Read/Write
c. Read the Help Study Sheet a Guide to Learning Styles at: http://www.vark-
learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets
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

3. 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:
I am writing about Aural study strategy which is taking in information by
listening. I need to hear my teacher or professor speak. That is how I comprehend
and understand better. I can compare my notes with other people. Also I can
bring a tape recorder and record my professor speak.
I can use those information for effective learning by using my materials. I
can play my recorder of my professor speaking to remember the information I
need. Also I can read my notes out loud over and over again till I can retain the
information. Another thing I can do is imagine my teacher speaking in my head.
By communicating more effectively I can simply get more involved in
discussions with my teacher asking question and responding with the professor.
Also I can make sure I discuss information with my class mates and get involved
with them. Ask people to hear my notes and see if they can understand what my
topic is.
In order to perform well in my test I have to listen to voices and believe
they will guide me to the information I need to know. Also I can practice writing
down old exam questions to basically give me a head start in knowing what’s to
come. Lastly I can speak my answers out loud or inside my head. Since I am a
better listener.

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 39, Sensing 1, Feeling 38, Judging 33
Personality Type: ESFJ
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 Caregiver
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? (copy and paste the careers here).
1. Home Economics
1. Nursing
1. Teaching
1. Administrators
1. Child Care
1. Family Practice Physician
1. Clergy or other religious work
1. Office Managers
1. Counselors / Social Work
1. Bookkeeping / Accounting
1. Administrative Assistants

5. 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 agree with my results because I do care about people and my
decisions.
b. Do these careers match the careers you have chosen for yourself?
Answer: Yes it does because I want to be is the nursing field and I am
exactly what it say I care.
c. If no, will you change your career choice?
Answer:
d. What can you do with this information?
Answer: With this information what I can do with it is, continue to work
towards my career because I know the career I have chosen is the one for
me.

6. 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: Blue 13
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:
A. Plan a trip to Europe.
Answer: I would make sure that our flight and hotel room is
arrange and that we will have transportation. Also I would
make sure that we have a complete brochure of activities for
everyday that we can choose from. Therefore, everyone can
choose what they want to do instead of me just picking
everything for them.
B. Diffuse an argument at work with an irate co-worker.
Answer: I would simply tell my co-worker its not necessary to
get into an argument and that we can just work it out with no
problems and give them a hug and walk away if he or she
doesn’t want to comply.

7. C. Communicate with a supervisor, whose ethnicity is different from
yours, to solve a scheduling problem.
Answer: I would explain that I need the day off but I will also
understand that if I did not request my day off at an
appropriate time and then no one can cover my shift unless it
a dying situation then I have to go to work.

8. 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: I would defiantly give the teacher a
day or two and if its so boring that I cant learn let alone keep my eyes open I
would have to drop the teacher and look for another class because I wont
pass the class if I can learn.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson to be learn here is to use some
of the advantages you have as a student. Because there is a website called
rate my professor and although all the comments are not true about the
professor, you can kind of get an idea of what to look forward to.
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 Once had a teacher say that about a
prep class and I got so scared of the fact that I had to write a 15 page research
paper for a prep class I freak out plus I didn’t have access to a computer so it
gave me more motivation to drop the class.

9. THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson to be learned is that regardless you
will face a class that you may have to even write a 30page research paper that
just comes with life.. It helps you to be prepared for the future and it enhances
your brains ability. As far as not having access to a computer you should always
use the advantages of your local library and the school has computers you can
use almost all day free of charge so it shouldn’t be a problem.
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: Having to pay for school out of
pocket can be both stressful and costly. Not everyone can do it, and if it
wasn’t for financial aid I wouldn’t even be able to go to school full time, and
taking one credit at a time I will never be able to graduate and start my
career.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson learned is that by keeping up
your good grades and faith you can receive help and you should never
give up and don’t take the people who help you for granted.
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:
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: