Reciprocal determinism in assessmnet

This week we addressed several issues relative to our course problem:
1. Professional context would be the SU athletic department
2. System would be the SU football team
3. Suprasystem would be the athletic department
4. Subsystems would be coaches and professors
5. Two information systems would be Academic advisor's and parents and prior academic records
6. Subsystem Interface Academic coordinators maintain detailed records on each athlete.

This week we also discussed methods and models for detailed analysis. The Diamond model may be of use for me as I envision a great deal of upfront analysis. There are 100 athletes on the team and I need to assess their general time management skills as well as there attitude toward timely completion of work.

Bandura's model of reciprocal determination continues to permeate my thinking as a seek to design a model



The key principles embodied by the 3 corners have a relevancy that needs to be addressed as I proceed through the process. The environment for the students is learned and propagated by the current Suprasystem NCAA, Subsystems Syracuse University Athletic department we allow them to be apathetic because they can perform despite knowing that the vast majority of them will not make it in professional sports. I observe this as an internalized behavior for the students they actual avoid the use of personal attributes that made them successful athletes, e.g. hard work, practice, repetition, film review i.e. the review of others work to help improve your own.
Recognizing that the above noted discussion then moves part of the solution toward addressing attitudes, the most difficult area to overcome with education, means substantial time in determining pre-existing attitudes and methods to overcome them.