What the professors are, looking for, when the high school students submit their learning profiles in, with their, college, applications here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The survey results on the Department of Education’s “Learning Profile Assessment Files”, in all the abilities, the college professors wanted to see the presences of the students’ problem-solving skills. The assistant professor from the Financial Management major of Zhongshan University, Tang was interviewed by the UDN papers, shard how problem-solving skills can be presented, the following is the interview with the professor, in first-person:
You don’t need to complicate the “ability to problem-solve” too much. From the business management majors, what impressed me when I looked at the files was: student A found that the items sold at the carnival at school wasn’t popular enough with the crowds, how he’d discussed the matter with his fellow classmates, on how to sell the items in the shortest time possible; student B acted as the bridge in the extracurricular activities, he’s good at combining the varied opinions, to help everybody reach a consensus on a subject; C in a social experiment report, through the surveys, found a simplified result, and even if the results from the survey weren’t that precise, but these students all used different ways, to show their problem-solving skills.
The Learning Process Profiles can be presented as such too. The multifaceted experiences can show in how to resolve the disagreements in the extracurricular activities, the self-incited learning process can focus on how to define, and focus on a problem that’s to be, resolved, if the students set up the plans to too large to manage, how do they, set that focal point again? I don’t expect these students to have the professional knowledge base to solve the problems, but if they can show the process they take, to getting these obstacles they come across resolved, then, it’s, enough for me.
I believe, that so long as a student can clearly describe the problem s/he encounters, what sort of attempts s/he had made to try to resolve it, and what was gained from the experiences of learning how to solve the problems. If the resulting gain is a concrete ability, to the point that it might help them resolve the issues they may come across in college application, and job application in their future, that, is what the professors loved to see too.
I want to remind the high school students, that even IF the major you want to study in has nothing to do with the courses you’d taken, you can still, apply for the department you’re interested in studying in. The universities know, that there are the varied resources from the various high schools around the country, that there are the different elective courses offered in each and every school too, if the students can show that they got their fundamentals down pat from the basic courses, or that they can show the motives of learning in their learning process profiles, show the professors, that you have a clear belief of what you want to get out of your higher education, the professors will see it.
And so, the learning process profiles serve as a sort of an interest inventory for these students who are entering into the universities, they’re still undecided in their majors, and what their areas of studies will be, and the profiles will help them explore their interests, to help them find the right paths in their lives.
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