Category: Research & Summaries

There has been a lot of corrections that were recommended by the professor. The professor has instructed to create a change matrix document that will show the changes made according to the comments given by the professor.

Can you make the connection between the military principle of Cover and Move equals teamwork? Would you also agree with the authors of Decision Making for Emergency Managers that money is not the problem in emergency management and law enforcement?

Assignment Overview: In this assignment, you will submit a complete (or very nearly complete) draft of your research paper. The more you submit in this assignment, the more feedback you will receive to aid you in creating a stronger final research paper.

Assignment Specifics:

Your research paper should be 7-10 pages (not including title page) with standard 1″ margins, double-spaced, and a 12-point standard font. You should closely adhere to the APA 7th edition for guidelines on formatting and sourcing.

Your paper will have the following sections:

Title Page: Use APA guidelines

Introduction: ~ 1/2-1 page

Use an introductory story or hook to get the audience interested in your topic. Provide background and context on your topic. Identify the research problem (what should be studied and why) and state your thesis (or present your research question/hypothesis). Remember, this paper should make an argument. Provide an overview of the paper.

Literature Review: ~4-6 pages

Your literature review should summarize relevant research/studies on the topic, identify major themes, and summarize the associations between and across a set concept/ideas. Remember, a literature review should analyze existing research within the topic to provide context to the topic, to identify gaps in the research (what hasn’t been studied), and position your own work within the field. Use subheadings to organize the themes within your literature review. Think of the literature review as a conversation between the researchers about what exists on the topic.

Theory/Theoretical Framework: ~2-3 pages

In this section, you will explain your chosen theory and connect it to your topic. Define key ideas or principles from your theory and explain how the theory guides your research questions. It is the bridge between your literature review and your methodology (which you will learn in your methods class — Qualitative, Rhetorical, or Quantitative) and explains how you will use the theory to explain your research findings.

Conclusion: ~ 1/2-1 page

Summarize your paper. Restate the thesis and explain the “so what” of this research (why does it matter to study).

References: as long as it needs to be

Include a source list of sources referenced within your paper, cited using APA 7th edition guidelines. You should have no less than 10-15 sources.

“THIS IS WHAT THE TEACHER WROTE BACK FROM THE FIRST DRAFT” “I HAVE ATTACHED MY PAPER WITH COMMENTS FROM THE PROFESSOR AND A EXAMPLE OF HOW THE PAPER SHOULD BE SETUP AND LOOK”

You have an interesting topic here. My main critiques would be to incorporate communication-specific research and develop a more robust theory section. Your literature review should include some direct citations from highly relevant sources. Relational dialectics is a good choice of theory to use here, but the theory section does not cite the scholar who developed the theory. This would strengthen your theory section.

There are a few minor errors in using APA formatting. Those would be easy to clean up quickly.

Explain why hackers do not consider themselves to be criminals. How
can someone break the law, but not feel deviant? Additionally, explain
the hacker ethic. Can individual hackers deviate from the hacker ethic?
Do all hackers hold the same understanding of that ethic? The following
topics should be included in your discussion:
The Hacker Manifesto
Hackers
White hacker versus black hacker
Intent of hacker
Pro-social
Permission to access
Investigative purposes
White hat / Gray hat / Black hat
. Each written
assignment must conform to the APA citation style. The suggested length is 5-7 pages,
NOT including title page and reference list. At least 5 scholarly references should be
used, in addition to your textbook. The title page will consist of the title of the paper to
include the students name, the course number and date submitted, all centered and
located at the approximate mid-section of the title page. Papers must be concise,
comprehensive and well written. Please contact me if you need additional guidance in
developing a clearly written, concise, and acceptable paper

If paper is not in full APA, it will not be accepted.

You are going to locate one empirical, peer reviewed research article that is clearly connected to a topic from this course and write a structured review of it.

Article requirements

1. It must be an original, empirical research study. Not a literature review. Not a systematic review. Not a meta analysis. Not an editorial. Not an opinion piece.
2. It must be published in a peer reviewed journal.
3. It must be published within the last 5 years unless you obtain my approval in advance.
4. You must upload the full article PDF with your paper.

Peer review evidence requirement
In the Canvas submission dialog box, you must paste your evidence that the journal is peer reviewed and explain how you know. It was in a database is not enough by itself.

Provide both of these:
A) A screenshot showing the journal is peer reviewed. Acceptable examples include Ulrichsweb, the journals official About page stating it is peer reviewed, or the library database record that explicitly labels the journal as peer reviewed.
B) A short explanation in your own words telling me exactly what you looked at and why it proves the journal is peer reviewed.

Process proof requirement
You must also upload a second file labeled My Work Notes that includes all items below. This is required.

1. Your search trail. List the database used (CINAHL, PubMed, etc.), your exact search terms, and any filters applied.
2. A screenshot of the article record page showing title, journal, year, and authors.
3. Your annotated article. Provide one of the following:
   Option A: A marked up PDF with highlights and margin notes.
   Option B: A separate page with at least 10 bullet notes that reference specific page numbers from the article.
4. A short authenticity statement at the end: I wrote this paper myself and can explain any part of it without notes.

If you skip the process proof, the paper will be graded as incomplete.

Paper requirements
APA 7th edition, strict. Use Level 1 headings at minimum. If you do not use headings, you are choosing to lose points.

Use these exact headings and cover each section fully.

1. Article Identification
   Provide the full APA citation.
   State the research problem in one or two sentences.
   State the research question exactly as written by the authors. If the authors do not state it explicitly, you must write the implied research question and explain where you inferred it from.
   State the purpose of the study.
2. Methods
   Describe the design (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and the specific design when stated).
   Describe the sample. Include setting, sample size, key inclusion criteria, and how participants were recruited.
   Describe data collection. Name the instrument or interview approach used. Include timing and setting.
   Describe analysis techniques. For quantitative, name the primary statistical tests used. For qualitative, name the analytic approach (thematic analysis, grounded theory coding, etc.).
   Quality and rigor. Identify one strength and one weakness in the methods, using course concepts.
3. Results and Author Interpretation
   Report the main results in concrete terms. Include at least three specific findings.
   You must reference at least one table or figure from the article and explain what it shows in plain language.
   Explain how the authors interpreted the findings.
   List the implications the authors claim. Practice, policy, education, future research, or any combination.
4. Your Critical Appraisal and Value
   Tell me whether the study supports the current state of the literature or pushes against it, and why.
   Tell me whether the study recommends a change in practice or reinforces current practice, and what that change would be.
   Discuss generalizability and limitations. Identify at least two limitations stated by the authors and one limitation you identified that the authors did not emphasize.
   Make it real. Provide one course relevant example of how this evidence could be used in a real world setting you know (workplace, community, patient population, operational process). This must be specific, not generic.
5. Quotations and AI rule
   Limit direct quotes to two total, short quotes only. Everything else should be paraphrased with citations.
   Do not use generative AI to write this paper. If your submission reads like a generic summary that could apply to any article, it will be flagged and you will be asked to explain your paper verbally.

Grading focus
There is no word requirement. You are graded on completeness, specificity, and accuracy. Vague writing loses points fast.

Scoring rubric (100 points)

1. Article Identification and purpose, clearly stated and accurate: 20 points
2. Methods described with correct detail, including design, sample, collection, analysis: 25 points
3. Results and interpretation, including table or figure explanation: 25 points
4. Your appraisal and value, including limitations and real world application: 20 points
5. APA formatting and headings: 10 points

What gets you in trouble quickly
If you do not include sample size, design, and analysis methods, you did not read the article.
If you cannot accurately explain one table or figure, you did not read the article.
If your writing is generic, you will be required to do a short live explanation of your paper.

Submission checklist

1. Upload the APA paper.
2. Upload the full article PDF.
3. Upload My Work Notes with the required evidence and artifacts.
4. Paste the peer review evidence screenshot and explanation

If you want, I can also rewrite this to match your exact course voice even more closely, but this version is already tight and enforceable.

ASSIGNMENT #4: PARENTING TODAY

TOPIC: Parenting Today has changed the landscape of early learning for young children from the ages of 1month to 8 years old.

Parents today are faced with a myriad of challenges that are impacting the entire family Eco System. Early Childhood Development is a discipline that requires talented and competent administrators, teachers, educators, assistants and practitioners. Grambling State University has started a Student Parent Initiative that supports GSU students and their children using the 3 Generational Approach. The 3 Gen Approach that is commonly called focuses on: 1) The student parent, 2) the child and 3) the community-at-large. According to the Aspen Institute’s ASCEND Program states that children and parents, in particular “Student Parents” are more likely to succeed in life and in completing their degrees if they 2 and 3 Gen approach is used while they attend college. GSU has implemented this program over the past 2 years by researching the issues impacting the GSU student parents, working across the campus to explore options to support student parents and identifying areas of interest to foster strong policies and procedures to enhance and strengthen retention efforts around student parents at GSU.

Instructions:

1. Go to: https: ascendstories.aspeninstitute.org/Ascend-Black-Native-Family-Futures-Fund-impact/index.html

Read and review the videos above about the GSU involvement with the Ascend BNFFFund and our GSU student parents as well as the other student parents from HBCUs and Tribal Colleges.

2. Find a GSU student parent that you will discuss how they are balancing school, parenting and working (if applicable).

3. Take notes from your interactions with the student parent.

4. Write up your findings and formulate a summary report to include: a) Information about the student parent, b) demographics about the student parent and the child, c) describe the strengths and challenges of being a student parent, d) discuss the issues impacting the student parent at GSU,

e) discuss recommendations for GSU working with student parents.

4. You may include photos if approved by the student parent with the child and any other items that tell the story about the student parent you interviewed.

5. Your Student Parent Summary Report should not exceed 4 pages.

Rely on the cumulative body of resources in this course to respond to the questions below. For short essay questions, make sure you rely on complete sentences, avoid bulleted lists, and align with APA 7th edition.

1. How can words be transformed into numbers in evaluations? Give an example that shows how this could be done. Lastly, how does this strategy benefit program evaluators?
2. In estimating the 95% confidence interval for a given population mean, the bigger the sample we have upon which to base our estimation, the narrower the range of sampling error. True/False
3. What is the difference between open-ended and closed-ended questions? Give an example of two open-endedquestions and two closed-ended questions.
4. Needs assessments are typically focused on determining program effectiveness. True/False
5. Triangulation typically means that several different sources of data are all focused on the same evaluation question. True/False
6. What is the difference between induction and deduction in the context of program evaluations? Once you define each term, provide an example with the context of program evaluations.
7. The following is a sentence in a quotation in Chapter 5 of the textbook. Once you have read the quote, discuss what it means: Qualitative researchers stress the socially constructed nature of reality, the intimate relationship between the researcher and what is studied, and the situational constraints that shape inquiry. Such researchers emphasize the value-laden nature of enquiry. They seek answers to questions that stress how social experience is created and given meaning. In contrast, quantitative studies emphasize the measurement and analysis of causal relationships between variables, not processes. What epistemological position is reflected in qualitative and quantitative studies? Lastly, how do each of these types of studies align with pragmatism?
8. Matching

Terms

• Pragmatists
• Naturalistic
• Evaluation
• Objectivism
• Paradigm
• Positivists
• Constructivists
• Formative Evaluation
• Summative Evaluation
• Constructionists

Definitions

• Doesn’t manipulate the setting to gather information…the goal is to reduce intrusiveness.
• Reality is socially constructed.
• Provides direction for program improvements.
• Determines
• merit or worth of a program.
• Use whatever works.
• Facts exist.
• Objects exist as meaningful entities independent of human consciousness and experience.
• A belief system that shapes what we think is important when we do research.
• Reality does not exist independent of human consciousness and experience.

Textbook/Book:

McDavid et al. (2019). Chps. 5 & 6.

Revise your Program Logic Model based on course materials, instructor comments, and synchronous class sessions.

A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from any assignment or internet

A mark of zero will be given for any submission utilizing artificial intelligence tools

• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• Use APA reference style.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

Overview

When working within a school district, it is important to know and understand all levels within the system from leadership down to the school and classroom level, all the way to the individual students receiving services. It will be important for you as a consultant to know and understand the roles and positions that will be essential for you to work directly with, as well as the roles and positions in leadership above you in the system. Attaining agreement for consultative behavior analytic support is essential at multiple levels within that system. In most cases, behavior analysts are the experts regarding behavior support and evidence-based instructional delivery; however, if we do not present our expertise respectfully, we risk damaging the opportunity to share our knowledge with others. This assignment will help you investigate the systems you will be working in and reflect on the cultural and relational aspects of the client/consultant relationship.

Preparation

To prepare for this assignment, complete the following:

• Research the structure and culture of a local school district by doing one of the following:
  • Review district and school websites.
  • Attend a school board meeting, or watch a recording on the school district website.
  • Interview a member of the school district.
• Review the . You will need to refer to the Capella Compassion Code when discussing the behavior analyst’s role in the school district.

Instructions

Please include the following information in your paper:

• Create a system-wide map of the hierarchy of the various levels within the system, from leadership levels to the classroom and the student. (Suggestions: Use MS Visio or MS Word.)
  • Visit to learn how to access MS Visio for free. To learn more about using MS Visio, refer to the Tools and Resources section.
• Describe the systems within a local school district.
• Describe key cultural aspects that will help you understand how to attain agreement with leaders, teachers, and students within the district.
  • What is the level of inclusion of students with disabilities who are receiving special education services?
  • Are the parents heavily involved with the district?
  • Do they have a heavy focus on STEAM/STEM?
  • Do they have an IB program they are proud of?
  • Do they feature athletics or arts in their district?
  • What is the local average household income or poverty level of the school?
  • What percentage of children receive free or reduced lunch?
  • What percentage of the population are non-native English speakers or do not speak English as a primary language at home?
• Reflect on and discuss your (the behavior analyst’s) role in the school system, as well as how this relates to compassionate practice of a behavior analyst.
  • What activities would be included in your role?
  • How will you incorporate compassionate practice into your work?
  • Which elements of the Capella Compassion Code would be applied in this setting?
• Describe strategies you would use to build rapport at the beginning of the professional relationship.
  • With which key roles will you need to build rapport and collaborate?

Submit your paper and your chart to the assignment area. You may submit them separately or in one document.

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Use current APA style and formatting, paying particular attention to citations and references. Refer to for citing and referencing tips.
• Length: 23 double-spaced pages in addition to the system map, not including the title page or reference page.
• References: A minimum of four scholarly or professional resources in addition to the textbook.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze consultative approaches used in educational settings.
  • Describe the role of a behavior analyst within the school system.
  • Describe strategies for building rapport.
• Competency 2: Apply collaborative skills in educational settings.
  • Create a system map of a school district.
  • Describe the systems within a school district.
  • Describe cultural aspects that are important to understand to collaborate with leaders, teachers, and students within the district.
• Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
  • Demonstrate an academic writing style through well-organized prose that follows assignment guidelines.
  • Demonstrate compliance with current APA style, citation, and referencing guidelines.