Assignment Prompt & Instructions
I need tutoring on how to apply the MEAL
**files (4)**
– ## Comment_12.docx
– ## Preparation_instruction_12.docx
– ## cf_your_career_in_aba_template_12.docx
– cf_literature_analysis_worksheet1_new.docx
**## Comment_12.docx**
**Comment** You had a good start to your keywords. Make sure that you are fully using the resources in the course including the ICS opportunities and the ICS resources. See the ICS Flowchart and recording for more feedback on identifying behavior analytic research.
**Comment** Your summaries lacked the comprehensive and concise identification of high-level information or included non-essential narrative. Strengthen your summarizing skills by isolating the critical methodological components (e.g., research question, setting, participants, independent variables, dependent variables, and results), while maintaining an objective, quantitative focus. Ensure you prioritize behavior analytic studies that utilize a single subject research design, which will provide the necessary structure for a comprehensive summary. Please review Capella's guide to paragraph organization to ensure that your structure and organization meet the expectations of master's level courses:
**Comment** Expand on your answer to include clear evidence from the articles and other resources. Implications describe the broader impact of the results on theoretical frameworks or future scientific inquiry, while social significance addresses the immediate practical relevance of the findings to stakeholders.
**Comment** While you attempted to compare and contrast the selected literature, several key methodological similarities and differences were omitted. The connection between the provided evidence and your final conclusions was not clearly articulated. To strengthen your analysis, move beyond a series of comparisons by explicitly articulating how the combined evidence supports your own unique insights or clinical implications. Please see Capella's guide on synthesizing to strengthen this skill:
[https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis](https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis)
**Comment** You clearly explained the criteria used to evaluate the credibility of all three sources. Expand by providing examples of how they might be applied.
**## Preparation_instruction_12.docx**
**Preparation**
To begin this assignment:
· Reflect on feedback received from previous assignments in this course.
· Review resources in Weeks 4 and 7 about the MEAL plan, SMART goals, and Reverse Outline.
· Review work you have done in previous weeks that you could revise and incorporate into this final assignment.
· Review the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download). You will need complete and submit this template in the course.
**Instructions**
Complete the following in the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download).
**Part 1: SMART Goals**
· Provide three clearly and concisely written SMART goals that you hold for your career in Behavior Analysis. These goals must be post-graduation.
· Review the SMART Goals section to ensure your goals meet all aspects of the criteria.
· Complete SMART Goals sections in the worksheet.
**Part 2: MEAL Planning**
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a behavior analyst.
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the ethical considerations and responsibilities required of you within the career goals shared above.
· Within the evidence section, complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide a direct quote for each piece of evidence.
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words.
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview.
· Apply critical thinking and effective decision making:
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the contributions to the field that your career goals shared above will provide you the opportunity to make.
· Within the evidence section complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide the direct quote for each piece of evidence
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview
**Part 3: Application and Research Vision**
· Reference the articles from your Week 4 assignment. Choose the article that aligns with your chosen specialization.
· Using the worksheet, discuss how your chosen article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
· Discuss how the article contributed to your choice of specialization.
·
**Note**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
· Expand on your work to capture the growth you've experienced this quarter.
Review the
[SMART Goals](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/psy5002element18756/wrapper.asp) media, MEAL Plan resources,
[Career Center](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1624) resources, and search the
[Capella University Library](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1651) for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.
**Before You Submit**
To maximize your scoring potential, be sure that you fully address all assignment requirements and meet the criteria in the rubric that will be used to assess your assignment. It is helpful to self-score your paper using the rubric before submitting to be sure you are meeting criteria for the grade you want to earn.
**Important**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
**Turnitin**
Submit a draft of your assignment to Turnitin for review of proper citations and references. It is very important that you always submit your work
**_as a draft_** so you can make revisions before submitting your assignment for grading. Refer to the courseroom Turnitin resources for guidance in accessing your feedback from Turnitin, interpreting your report, and improving your writing and citations for your assignment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Written communication**: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
·
**Writing style**: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
·
**APA formatting**: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to the degree-specific sections of the
[Writing Cente](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1541) r for citing and referencing tips. Include a title page and references list.
·
**Resources**: A minimum of four resources with at least three of them from course readings. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources. All references need to be cited in text, according to current APA standards. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them.
·
**Template**: Use the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download) to format your assignment.
·
**Submission**: Once you are satisfied with your paper and have made all necessary revisions, submit your assignment no later than 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
· Describe a vision for career, including three specific goals.
· Explain how literature review and research on career information affected the vision.
· Competency 2: Evaluate behavior-analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, ethics, and value.
· Discuss how to evaluate behavior analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, and value.
· Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional in behavior analysis.
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethical considerations required of a behavior analyst.
· Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
· Discuss how to apply critical thinking and ways to contribute to the field as a behavior analyst.
· Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of behavior analysis.
· Upload the required articles with the assignment.
· Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and good organization.
· Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
**## cf_your_career_in_aba_template_12.docx**
**Week 9 Assignment: Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis**
**PART 1: SMART Goals**
Using SMART goals, identify three goals you have for your career. Try to think beyond completion of this program and becoming certified.
Below are some suggested goals that relate to a career in behavior analysis: networking, attending conferences, completing specific CEs on a new topic, publishing research, developing curriculum, etc.
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 1** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 2** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 3** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
**PART 2: MEAL Planning**
**Ethical Considerations:**
Choose one of your SMART goals from Part 1 and use MEAL Planning to further expand your work relating to ethical considerations.
| | |
| — | — |
| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
| |
| — |
| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
| |
**Contributions to the field:**
Critically think about how you plan to contribute to the field of behavior analysis.
| | |
| — | — |
| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
| |
| — |
| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
| |
**PART 3: Application and Research Vision**
**Evaluation of Behavior Analytic Literature**
Refer to the Week 4 assignment and reflect on the article choices you found. Based on your chosen specialization, identify how that specific article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
Reminder: Provide 3-5 quality sentences to describe each section.
| | |
| — | — |
| | Expand |
| Article APA Reference | |
| How is the article reliable? | |
| How is the article credible? | |
| How is the article aligning with ethical considerations? | |
| How did this article contribute to your specialization choice? | |
**References**
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**## Comment_12.docx**
**Comment** You had a good start to your keywords. Make sure that you are fully using the resources in the course including the ICS opportunities and the ICS resources. See the ICS Flowchart and recording for more feedback on identifying behavior analytic research.
**Comment** Your summaries lacked the comprehensive and concise identification of high-level information or included non-essential narrative. Strengthen your summarizing skills by isolating the critical methodological components (e.g., research question, setting, participants, independent variables, dependent variables, and results), while maintaining an objective, quantitative focus. Ensure you prioritize behavior analytic studies that utilize a single subject research design, which will provide the necessary structure for a comprehensive summary. Please review Capella's guide to paragraph organization to ensure that your structure and organization meet the expectations of master's level courses:
**Comment** Expand on your answer to include clear evidence from the articles and other resources. Implications describe the broader impact of the results on theoretical frameworks or future scientific inquiry, while social significance addresses the immediate practical relevance of the findings to stakeholders.
**Comment** While you attempted to compare and contrast the selected literature, several key methodological similarities and differences were omitted. The connection between the provided evidence and your final conclusions was not clearly articulated. To strengthen your analysis, move beyond a series of comparisons by explicitly articulating how the combined evidence supports your own unique insights or clinical implications. Please see Capella's guide on synthesizing to strengthen this skill:
[https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis](https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis)
**Comment** You clearly explained the criteria used to evaluate the credibility of all three sources. Expand by providing examples of how they might be applied.
**## Preparation_instruction_12.docx**
**Preparation**
To begin this assignment:
· Reflect on feedback received from previous assignments in this course.
· Review resources in Weeks 4 and 7 about the MEAL plan, SMART goals, and Reverse Outline.
· Review work you have done in previous weeks that you could revise and incorporate into this final assignment.
· Review the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download). You will need complete and submit this template in the course.
**Instructions**
Complete the following in the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download).
**Part 1: SMART Goals**
· Provide three clearly and concisely written SMART goals that you hold for your career in Behavior Analysis. These goals must be post-graduation.
· Review the SMART Goals section to ensure your goals meet all aspects of the criteria.
· Complete SMART Goals sections in the worksheet.
**Part 2: MEAL Planning**
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a behavior analyst.
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the ethical considerations and responsibilities required of you within the career goals shared above.
· Within the evidence section, complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide a direct quote for each piece of evidence.
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words.
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview.
· Apply critical thinking and effective decision making:
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the contributions to the field that your career goals shared above will provide you the opportunity to make.
· Within the evidence section complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide the direct quote for each piece of evidence
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview
**Part 3: Application and Research Vision**
· Reference the articles from your Week 4 assignment. Choose the article that aligns with your chosen specialization.
· Using the worksheet, discuss how your chosen article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
· Discuss how the article contributed to your choice of specialization.
·
**Note**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
· Expand on your work to capture the growth you've experienced this quarter.
Review the
[SMART Goals](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/psy5002element18756/wrapper.asp) media, MEAL Plan resources,
[Career Center](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1624) resources, and search the
[Capella University Library](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1651) for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.
**Before You Submit**
To maximize your scoring potential, be sure that you fully address all assignment requirements and meet the criteria in the rubric that will be used to assess your assignment. It is helpful to self-score your paper using the rubric before submitting to be sure you are meeting criteria for the grade you want to earn.
**Important**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
**Turnitin**
Submit a draft of your assignment to Turnitin for review of proper citations and references. It is very important that you always submit your work
**_as a draft_** so you can make revisions before submitting your assignment for grading. Refer to the courseroom Turnitin resources for guidance in accessing your feedback from Turnitin, interpreting your report, and improving your writing and citations for your assignment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Written communication**: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
·
**Writing style**: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
·
**APA formatting**: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to the degree-specific sections of the
[Writing Cente](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1541) r for citing and referencing tips. Include a title page and references list.
·
**Resources**: A minimum of four resources with at least three of them from course readings. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources. All references need to be cited in text, according to current APA standards. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them.
·
**Template**: Use the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download) to format your assignment.
·
**Submission**: Once you are satisfied with your paper and have made all necessary revisions, submit your assignment no later than 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
· Describe a vision for career, including three specific goals.
· Explain how literature review and research on career information affected the vision.
· Competency 2: Evaluate behavior-analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, ethics, and value.
· Discuss how to evaluate behavior analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, and value.
· Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional in behavior analysis.
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethical considerations required of a behavior analyst.
· Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
· Discuss how to apply critical thinking and ways to contribute to the field as a behavior analyst.
· Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of behavior analysis.
· Upload the required articles with the assignment.
· Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and good organization.
· Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
**## cf_your_career_in_aba_template_12.docx**
**Week 9 Assignment: Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis**
**PART 1: SMART Goals**
Using SMART goals, identify three goals you have for your career. Try to think beyond completion of this program and becoming certified.
Below are some suggested goals that relate to a career in behavior analysis: networking, attending conferences, completing specific CEs on a new topic, publishing research, developing curriculum, etc.
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 1** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 2** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
| | |
| — | — |
| **Smart Goal 3** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
**PART 2: MEAL Planning**
**Ethical Considerations:**
Choose one of your SMART goals from Part 1 and use MEAL Planning to further expand your work relating to ethical considerations.
| | |
| — | — |
| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
| |
| — |
| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
| |
**Contributions to the field:**
Critically think about how you plan to contribute to the field of behavior analysis.
| | |
| — | — |
| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
| |
| — |
| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
| |
**PART 3: Application and Research Vision**
**Evaluation of Behavior Analytic Literature**
Refer to the Week 4 assignment and reflect on the article choices you found. Based on your chosen specialization, identify how that specific article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
Reminder: Provide 3-5 quality sentences to describe each section.
| | |
| — | — |
| | Expand |
| Article APA Reference | |
| How is the article reliable? | |
| How is the article credible? | |
| How is the article aligning with ethical considerations? | |
| How did this article contribute to your specialization choice? | |
**References**
**cf_literature_analysis_worksheet1_new.docx**
This file is too large to display. [View in new window](https://www.sweetstudy.com/files/cf-literature-analysis-worksheet1-new-docx-10561895)
**## Comment_12.docx**
**Comment** You had a good start to your keywords. Make sure that you are fully using the resources in the course including the ICS opportunities and the ICS resources. See the ICS Flowchart and recording for more feedback on identifying behavior analytic research.
**Comment** Your summaries lacked the comprehensive and concise identification of high-level information or included non-essential narrative. Strengthen your summarizing skills by isolating the critical methodological components (e.g., research question, setting, participants, independent variables, dependent variables, and results), while maintaining an objective, quantitative focus. Ensure you prioritize behavior analytic studies that utilize a single subject research design, which will provide the necessary structure for a comprehensive summary. Please review Capella's guide to paragraph organization to ensure that your structure and organization meet the expectations of master's level courses:
**Comment** Expand on your answer to include clear evidence from the articles and other resources. Implications describe the broader impact of the results on theoretical frameworks or future scientific inquiry, while social significance addresses the immediate practical relevance of the findings to stakeholders.
**Comment** While you attempted to compare and contrast the selected literature, several key methodological similarities and differences were omitted. The connection between the provided evidence and your final conclusions was not clearly articulated. To strengthen your analysis, move beyond a series of comparisons by explicitly articulating how the combined evidence supports your own unique insights or clinical implications. Please see Capella's guide on synthesizing to strengthen this skill:
[https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis](https://campus.capella.edu/writing-center/graduate/organization/creating-synthesis)
**Comment** You clearly explained the criteria used to evaluate the credibility of all three sources. Expand by providing examples of how they might be applied.
**## Preparation_instruction_12.docx**
**Preparation**
To begin this assignment:
· Reflect on feedback received from previous assignments in this course.
· Review resources in Weeks 4 and 7 about the MEAL plan, SMART goals, and Reverse Outline.
· Review work you have done in previous weeks that you could revise and incorporate into this final assignment.
· Review the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download). You will need complete and submit this template in the course.
**Instructions**
Complete the following in the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download).
**Part 1: SMART Goals**
· Provide three clearly and concisely written SMART goals that you hold for your career in Behavior Analysis. These goals must be post-graduation.
· Review the SMART Goals section to ensure your goals meet all aspects of the criteria.
· Complete SMART Goals sections in the worksheet.
**Part 2: MEAL Planning**
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a behavior analyst.
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the ethical considerations and responsibilities required of you within the career goals shared above.
· Within the evidence section, complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide a direct quote for each piece of evidence.
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words.
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview.
· Apply critical thinking and effective decision making:
· Follow the MEAL Plan format to outline the contributions to the field that your career goals shared above will provide you the opportunity to make.
· Within the evidence section complete BOTH steps for each piece of evidence:
· Provide the direct quote for each piece of evidence
· PARAPHRASE each quote into your OWN words
· Convert the MEAL Plan into a well-organized paragraph. The paragraph should follow the structure found in the Capella MEAL Plan overview
**Part 3: Application and Research Vision**
· Reference the articles from your Week 4 assignment. Choose the article that aligns with your chosen specialization.
· Using the worksheet, discuss how your chosen article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
· Discuss how the article contributed to your choice of specialization.
·
**Note**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
· Expand on your work to capture the growth you've experienced this quarter.
Review the
[SMART Goals](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/psy5002element18756/wrapper.asp) media, MEAL Plan resources,
[Career Center](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1624) resources, and search the
[Capella University Library](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1651) for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.
**Before You Submit**
To maximize your scoring potential, be sure that you fully address all assignment requirements and meet the criteria in the rubric that will be used to assess your assignment. It is helpful to self-score your paper using the rubric before submitting to be sure you are meeting criteria for the grade you want to earn.
**Important**: Be sure up upload the articles along with the assignment. Your assignment will not be graded of you fail to do so.
**Turnitin**
Submit a draft of your assignment to Turnitin for review of proper citations and references. It is very important that you always submit your work
**_as a draft_** so you can make revisions before submitting your assignment for grading. Refer to the courseroom Turnitin resources for guidance in accessing your feedback from Turnitin, interpreting your report, and improving your writing and citations for your assignment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Written communication**: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
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**Writing style**: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.
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**APA formatting**: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to the degree-specific sections of the
[Writing Cente](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1541) r for citing and referencing tips. Include a title page and references list.
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**Resources**: A minimum of four resources with at least three of them from course readings. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources. All references need to be cited in text, according to current APA standards. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them.
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**Template**: Use the
[Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis Template [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/63195/files/12222461/download) to format your assignment.
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**Submission**: Once you are satisfied with your paper and have made all necessary revisions, submit your assignment no later than 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the role of the practitioner-scholar model in guiding professional development.
· Describe a vision for career, including three specific goals.
· Explain how literature review and research on career information affected the vision.
· Competency 2: Evaluate behavior-analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, ethics, and value.
· Discuss how to evaluate behavior analytic literature in terms of reliability, credibility, and value.
· Competency 3: Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional in behavior analysis.
· Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethical considerations required of a behavior analyst.
· Competency 4: Apply critical thinking and effective decision making.
· Discuss how to apply critical thinking and ways to contribute to the field as a behavior analyst.
· Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of behavior analysis.
· Upload the required articles with the assignment.
· Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and good organization.
· Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
**## cf_your_career_in_aba_template_12.docx**
**Week 9 Assignment: Your Career in Applied Behavior Analysis**
**PART 1: SMART Goals**
Using SMART goals, identify three goals you have for your career. Try to think beyond completion of this program and becoming certified.
Below are some suggested goals that relate to a career in behavior analysis: networking, attending conferences, completing specific CEs on a new topic, publishing research, developing curriculum, etc.
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| **Smart Goal 1** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
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| **Smart Goal 2** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
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| **Smart Goal 3** | **Expand** |
| **Specific:**<br>What exactly should I be doing to help me achieve my goal? | |
| **Measurable:**<br>How do you know when the goal has been completed? | |
| **Attainable:**<br>How is the goal reachable? | |
| **Relevant:**<br>Does the goal reflect steps needed to achieve the long-term goal? | |
| **Time:**<br>Is there a definite start and end date/or time for this goal? If so, what is it? | |
**PART 2: MEAL Planning**
**Ethical Considerations:**
Choose one of your SMART goals from Part 1 and use MEAL Planning to further expand your work relating to ethical considerations.
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| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
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| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
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**Contributions to the field:**
Critically think about how you plan to contribute to the field of behavior analysis.
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| **MEAL Plan** | **Expand** |
| **Main Idea:**<br>What is the main idea? | |
| **Evidence:**<br>What evidence can you find to support ethical considerations for your career goals?<br>Use direct quotations to identify the evidence. Then, paraphrase in your own words.<br>Reminder: You must cite at least three resources. This is a great space to do that. | |
| **Analysis:**<br>Interpret the evidence you found. Provide examples and expand how this topic relates to your goals. | |
| **Link or Transition:**<br>Link your work together and complete the thought. | |
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| Write your above MEAL plan into a full paragraph below. Remember to use at least three resources within this worksheet and comply with 7th edition APA formatting.<br>Reminder: Please use the paraphrased version of your evidence with correct in-text citations. |
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**PART 3: Application and Research Vision**
**Evaluation of Behavior Analytic Literature**
Refer to the Week 4 assignment and reflect on the article choices you found. Based on your chosen specialization, identify how that specific article is reliable, credible, and aligns with ethical considerations.
Reminder: Provide 3-5 quality sentences to describe each section.
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| Article APA Reference | |
| How is the article reliable? | |
| How is the article credible? | |
| How is the article aligning with ethical considerations? | |
| How did this article contribute to your specialization choice? | |
**References**
**cf_literature_analysis_worksheet1_new.docx**
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