This document provides instructions for a portfolio midterm assignment with three sections. Section one asks students to write an intention statement for the class and their college education. Section two includes three learning style inventories - VARK, Myers-Briggs, and True Colors - for students to complete. Students are asked to analyze their results and reflect on how the information can help them learn. Section three involves an emotional intelligence activity where students reflect on typical college situations and the lessons that can be learned from them.

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
(Shuntavis Dixson)
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.
My intentions for this class, first of all is to pass. I would like to learn as much as
possible from this class. I have learned a lot of things about the college campus that I
did not know about. Another good thing is to become more sociable and meet new
people like my fellow students. Another is to get to all of my classes without missing a
day or being late. I’m going to make sure I study as much as I can when test and
quizzes come around. My main intention of all is to pass all my classes throughout my
two years and graduate.

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.
- Visual: 3
- Aural: 3
- Read/Write: 6
- Kinesthetic: 9
2. Now answer the following questions:
a. What are your two highest VARK scores?
- 6 and 9
b. What are your two lowest VARK scores?
- 3 is the lowest
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.

3. 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: I am good with taking in information. My second to
highest score was a six which was read and write. That’s how I learn best is by
reading info and writing down notes. Once I write the info I can have to use at a
later 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:
44 50 50 44
Personality Type: ENTJ
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 Executives
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).
f. Corporate Executive Officer; Organization Builder
g. Entrepreneur
h. Computer Consultant
i. Lawyer
j. Judge
k. Business Administrators and Managers

5. l. University Professors and Administrators

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: Yes, because I am already in school majoring in computers and
have already took an approach to become an entrepreneur.
b. Do these careers match the careers you have chosen for yourself?
Answer: Yes they do, absolutely..
c. If no, will you change your career choice?
Answer:
d. What can you do with this information?
Answer: Now I see that what I was shooting for to become in life is a fact
because my scores came to be what I want to be in life.

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/12
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: Yellow
- I would look online for tickets and get pricing and check to see
what is the best time that fits me to leave out for the trip
B. Diffuse an argument at work with an irate co-worker.
Answer: Blue
- I would see what has the co-worker so irate so that way I can see
what I can do to help calm them down.

8. C. Communicate with a supervisor, whose ethnicity is different from
yours, to solve a scheduling problem.
Answer: Green
- Go to my supervisor just like I would anyone of any color and try
to get the scheduling problem resolved. I wouldn’t look at them
as a color but as a human being.

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: I would say probably my science
class in middle school. My teacher was very boring and he really acted like
he didn’t care if passed the class or not.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Do what you have to do to get your
degree.

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 say my sls class, because most
of our work is turned in online and my computer won’t allow me to use
blackboard.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Make sure you’re prepared and also try to make
adjustments to get the work done.

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: None
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Never say never. Don’t always think or
assume things aren’t going to get better

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: Going through that situation now.
Haven’t made to the end yet.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Enjoy what you do no matter what someone
thinks about it. Take pride in knowing that you’re going to make your family and
children so proud.