Cultural and Linguistic, Adaptation and Accommodation Considerations in Assessment

After completing this week\’s required reading, respond to the following:

• Describe language and acculturation differences that are present among students in U.S. public schools;
• Describe the legal protections and requirements for students who are ELLs included in IDEA and NCLB;
• List four questions that should be used to guide the assessment process for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds;
• Describe the merits and drawbacks of three approaches to testing students who are ELLs;
• Describe the differing categories of accommodations (presentation, response, etc.) and provide examples of accommodations that might fit each category;
• List some accommodation guidelines to use in making decisions about which accommodations to provide when making accountability decisions (CCSS); and
• Describe how assistive technology can assist students in the assessment process (high stakes testing, individual, progress monitoring, etc.).
Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style 6th edition

Medical RecordVs Claim Data

To use electronic data you have to have a plan for how you will pull the patient records you are interested in out of the large number of patient records in the data system. Then you have to subset your sample into your test and control groups.

Briefly describe how you would pull and subset retrospective electronic data to conduct a) a case control study, and b) a cohort study.

What is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the U.S. health care system in the context of delivery, finance, management, and/or sustainability? What are the issues that prompted a need for health

What is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the U.S. health care system in the context of delivery, finance, management, and/or sustainability? What are the issues that prompted a need for health care reform? Support your answer with a credible data reference. Do not use a reference already used by another student

Secret-Keeping and Adult Knowledge in HP&PoA

There are several important moments in Prisoner of Azkaban where adults deliberately decide to withhold information from Harry, Hermione, and Ron, and from the students more generally. For example, no one tells Harry that Sirius Black is his godfather, nor that Sirius was accused of murdering Peter Pettigrew. No one tells him, initially, why Black is supposedly after him. More broadly, even though dementors – dangerous creatures at the best of times – are guarding Hogwarts, no one teaches the student body how to drive them off, how to protect themselves. When Harry wants that knowledge, he has to actively go after it by going to Professor Lupin. He also puts himself in danger several times because he does not have a full picture of what is happening.

For this response paper/initial post, please talk about instances where adults choose to withhold information from those who are younger and what the effects of those decisions are. Talk about the motivations the adults might have for doing so, and what both the positive and negative effects are on the young people involved. What messages does the novel convey about adult withholding of knowledge, and how adolescents do or should respond to that?

Business

Describe the basic rights of common stockholders. What are the key differences between common and preferred stock?

Describe the basic features and characteristics of bonds. How can bonds be secured? What is the difference between a callable bond and a convertible bond?

What is the key difference between the primary and secondary securities markets? Why are the trades that occur on the secondary market important to a firm’s management?

Cognitive Information Processing Evaluation

This is the third chapter of your cumulative paper on the four major learning theory categories in the psychology field. For this chapter, you will focus on cognitive information processing.

Cognitive information processing centers around the two-store memory model, where networks are formed in memory. Organization, elaboration, and rehearsal are processes that help form memory networks. The focus of cognitive information processing is the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of information and is a theory that is compatible with the findings in brain research and neuroscience.

For this paper, you are asked to examine specific aspects of the theory and compare it to the theories in your previous two chapters. Your paper should be four to five pages in length, not counting your title page or references. Papers should be double-spaced with a font size of 12 and follow APA style. Be sure to use examples from your readings and research to support your position throughout your paper. Address the following in your paper:

Summarize the major aspects of cognitive information processing.
Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of cognitive information processing, in general.
Apply cognitive information processing to a practical situation in your specialization. Describe the situation, how the theory can be applied, and what the expected outcomes would be.
Analyze the processes of memory and transfer in cognitive information processing.
Compare behaviorism, social cognitive theory, and cognitive information processing.
Write in a concise, balanced, and logically organized manner. Use grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of graduate-level composition, using the accepted form and style of the profession, including APA cited support and format.

oral presentation

Oral Report on Scientific Paper: On the last day of class you will need to present a six slide power point to state the question or hypothesis in your scientific paper and explain figures or graph that addresses it. This should be a very short presentation of 7 minutes. The power point should be sent to me (the Professor) at least a day before the due date.

E-BUSINESS AND E-COMMERCE report

This individual assessment consists of (1) a business plan (75%), and (2) a peer evaluation and self reflection (25%). To pass the module students are required to pass both components. The deadline for the coursework submission is no later than 10am Wednesday 1st June 2016. The two components should be submitted together as one single document through Turnitin. A hard copy of the assignment is not required.
I. A BUSINESS PLAN 75% (2,250 WORDS)
You will develop a business plan for your own ecommerce start-up company. Your business idea should (1) reflect the current trends in the digital economy (2) be creative and innovative.
Learning Objectives:
• to make a link between concepts and practice
• to develop a better understanding of e-Commerce through developing a business
plan
• to acquires skills of developing a business model
• to appreciate creative/innovative thinking.
The Contents of the Business Model Report
Your business plan should include the following components:
1. Executive Summary (not included in the words count)
The Executive Summary should summarise your business model in a nutshell. The summary should explain what your business is, describe the products and services that you are offering to the target customers/clients, highlight your value propositions, outline revenue streams and identify target customers. The Executive Summary should be a page long. It is critical because, if done well, it will convince potential investors to continue reading your business plan.
2. Vision and Mission Statement
The vision statement is a company’s road map. It indicates what the company wants to become in the future and sets its direction.
The mission statement indicates what company the does and what its purpose is.
3. Business model (You must read the key textbook, ‘Business Model Generation’ in order to know what is to be included in each subsection)
3.1. Value propositions
3.2. Customer segments 3.3. Channels
3.4. Customer relationships 3.5. Revenue streams
3.6. Key resources 3.7. Key activities 3.8. Key partnerships 3.9. Cost structure
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4. Market Analysis
This section is for you to justify your choice of market segmentation(s). You need to identify market trends relevant to your offerings in order to convince people that there is a growing market/demand for your products/service. You also need to identify existing competitors who offer the same or similar products to yours, then compare and contrast your competitors’ offerings with your own.
5. Appendix (not included in the word count)
5.1. Business model canvas: you need to include different versions of your
business model canvas
**** You must first read and understand Business Model Generation by Osterwalder Pigneur (2010) before you write up the plan. This is a core text for the module and is listed in the module outline.
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II. PEER AND SELF EVALUATION, 25% (750 WORDS) Learning objectives:
• to develop your communication skill through interaction with peers
• to enhance your understanding of business model generation through giving
constructive feedback to your peers
• to develop critical analytical skill through evaluating others’ work.
This peer evaluation and self reflection will detail your work on tasks 6 & 7. 1) Complete peer evaluation forms (5%)
• Using the peer evaluation form, write comments on the quality of feedback received from each member of your group (e.g. did he/she give you good quality feedback? Why do you think it was good/bad?); and on the quality of your peers’ involvement (e.g. was he/she active in giving feedback? Did he/she respond well to your feedback?)
• Also include a reflection on the quality of your feedback to others in your group (e.g. did you think that your feedback was constructive and fair? What evidence do you have which makes you believe that your feedback was good/bad?)
2) Self reflection (20%)
• List the at least three most helpful comments that were made about your business idea.
• For each of these comments, detail what you did to address the comment and to improve your proposal.
• Link your improvements to insights that have come from the lecture material including references to sources that have been useful.

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.This module/week looks at ancient epic narratives where warriors consider the meaning of life and death. You will also consider the conclusions of the Bible in comparison to the epic narratives.

Learning Outcomes
.Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
•Compare the conclusions about the meaning of life found in The Epic of Gilgamesh, \”Bhagavad Gita,\” and briefly in the Bible.
•Compare the moral dilemmas found in The Epic of Gilgamesh and \”Bhagavad Gita.\”
•Compare the general culture values embedded in The Epic of Gilgamesh and \”Bhagavad Gita.\”