Listening Self Assessment

Instructions
First, you must take this Online Listening Self-Assessment: Listening Self Assessment
(Links to an external site.)
Next, read the interpretation of your results at the end of the test
Then, you must answer the questions below . Please create and submit a new document to answer these questions.
Requirements
Minimum page requirement: 2 to 3 pages (double-spaced).
Please number your answers. Do NOT write one big “essay.”
Please use “college-level” writing (complete sentences, correct grammar and spelling, etc.). Read each question carefully and respond to ALL parts of the question. Write assuming I do not know the assignment or the material. This will force you into the appropriate level of clarity and detail. If you want me to understand, please write as clearly as possible.
In answering, refer to the material covered in class lecture and in the text. When providing examples, please be as specific as possible and refer to situations from your own INTERPERSONAL experience (romantic relationships, friendships, etc). Please don’t refer to how you listen in class, as a student.

Note: In your examples explain and describe your BEHAVIORS as a listener. In other words, what you DO or what you NOT DO as a listener?

Questions:
What is the interpretation of your results of the Listening Self Assessment?
(Links to an external site.)
Refer to the info. at the end of the test). Do you agree with this interpretation? Explain (why or why not) and give an example that supports your explanation.
What is your predominant listening “bad habit?” In answering, please give at least ONE “bad habit” from class/text (pseudolistening, stage hog, etc.). Provide at least one specific, interpersonal example that demonstrates a time when you displayed this bad habit. In your example, explain why in that situation your “bad habit” was actually “bad.” (Feel free to give more than one bad habit, if necessary.
What are your strengths as a listener? (Refer to those from class/text.) Provide at least one specific, interpersonal example that demonstrates a time when you displayed this or these strength(s)
Overall, from this assignment please explain
What have you learned about listening? (Don’t just recite the class notes or textbook. Tell me what you actually LEARNED/Discovered)
WHY & IN WHICH TYPE of SITUATIONS do YOU THINK that mindful listening is important/necessary in interpersonal relationships?
What have you discovered about yourself as a listener, compared to the “competent listener” (“good listener”) implicated in the textbook and from class lecture?