Personal and Key Skills Self Assessment

This is a self – assessment questionnaire.

Many of you will have monitored or evaluated work-place skills whilst studying, or in the workplace, and some of you may have qualifications in some of these personal and key skills. What is important is that, whatever your previous experience, you continue to develop skills at higher levels and in new contexts. You can never say that you have ‘done’, or ‘learnt’ a key skill and that you don’t need to think about it again. The whole point of such skills is that you use and refine them all the time and that you can readily transfer your skills to new experiences and situations.

Personal and Key Skills: Self-Assessment
Using the scale 1 – 4 below, rate yourself on the following skills

Key:

1.	I have started this but need more practice
2.	I am able to do this with some help
3.	I am competent at this without help
4.	I am competent at this and able to help others

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MANAGEMENT OF SELF

1. Use, evaluate and adapt a range of academic skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, argument) (*)

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2. Manage your time effectively (meet deadlines, get to appointments/classes on time)(*)

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3. Set realistic objectives, priorities & standards(*)

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4. Monitor, evaluate and adapt own performance(*)

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5. Clarify personal values (*)

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6. Evaluate your own potential for employment(*)

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7. Show intellectual flexibility (be willing to see that there may be more than one way to solve a problem)(*)

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8. Take responsibility for acting in a professional/ethical manner(*)

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9. Deal with criticism constructively (*)

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10. Manage emotions (*)

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MANAGING YOUR LEARNING

11. Take responsibility for your own learning and personal growth (monitor, evaluate and adapt your own performance; work towards long term aims and goals)(*)

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12. Demonstrate an awareness of learning processes(*)

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13.Set realistic objectives, priorities and standards(*)

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14. Develop, evaluate & adapt learning strategies(*)

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15. Use learning in new or different situations/contexts(*)

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16. Learn through collaboration(*)

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17. Purposefully reflect on own learning and progress(*)

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PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING

18. Identify the key features of the problem(*)

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19. Think laterally about the problem(*)

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20. Conceptualise the issues I hold myself to the same levels of performance for team tasks as I do for personal or individual tasks(*)

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21. Identify the options(*)

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22. Identify solutions(*)

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23. Plan and implement a course of action(*)

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24. Carry out solutions(*)

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25. Monitor evaluate and adapt solutions and outcomes(*)

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COMMUNICATION

26. Present oral/visual information competently(*)

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27. Use appropriate language in a range of activities (essays, reports, presentations, interviews)(*)

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28. Listen actively and effectively(*)

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29. Offer constructive criticism(*)

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30. Verbal communication (speak fluently and confidently to a variety of audiences)(*)

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31. Produce a variety of written documents (using appropriate formats, accurate information, spelling, punctuation and grammar)(*)

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32. Use charts, diagrams and other illustrations to support verbal and written communication(*)

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33. Evaluate and adapt strategies for communication(*)

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WORKING WITH OTHERS / TEAM WORK

34. Plan with others (ensure clear goals, take responsibility and carry out appropriate tasks)(*)

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35. Respect the views and values of others(*)

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36. Adapt to the needs of the group/ team (take initiative, lead, delegate, stand back, negotiate etc)(*)

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37. Assist and support others in learning (*)

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38. Delegate and stand back(*)

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39. Negotiate with individuals/groups(*)

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40. Work to collective goals (work to agreed plans, within agreed resources)(*)

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41. Monitor, evaluate and assess processes of group/ team work(*)

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CURIOSITY

42. Seek as much information as possible in new situations(*)

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43. Enjoy the uncertainty of everyday life(*)

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44. Prefer to do things that are complex and challenging(*)

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45. Always looking out for new things or experiences(*)

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46. View challenging situations as opportunities to grow and learn(*)

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47. Like to do things that are a little frightening (*)

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48. Always looking for experiences that challenge how I think about myself and the world(*)

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49. Prefer jobs that are excitingly unpredictable(*)

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50. Frequently seek out opportunities to challenge myself and grow as a person(*)

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51. Embrace unfamiliar people, events and places(*)

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DATA HANDLING

52. Use appropriate sources of information (library,retrieval systems, IT, people etc ) (*)

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53. Use appropriate technology and media including IT(*)

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54. Handle large amounts of information and data effectively(*)

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55. Record and interpret results / data(*)

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56. Interpret a variety of information forms(*)

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57. Use appropriate numerical information(*)

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58. Use information critically and innovatively(*)

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59. Use data as a tool in support of argument(*)

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60. Translate data into words, visual images, concepts(*)

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61. Evaluate and adopt strategies for handling data and information(*)

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Personal and Key Skills Assessment