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 Conducting a z-Test

A researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students’ attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researcher randomly selects a class of 36 students, shows them the film, and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for people in general on this questionnaire is 75, with a standard deviation of 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05), does showing the film change students’ attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill?

1. What does it mean to set alpha at .05?
2. What is your null hypothesis? Alternate hypothesis?
3. Is this a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis?
4. What is the critical z?
5. Calculate the obtained z. Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?
6. State in words what you have found.

• Case Study #1: “Going Green” University Project – This case focuses on a university converting their present facilities to being “green” and is best suited to learners interested in project management within this capacity.

To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements.

1. Choose and provide a summary description of a project that requires procurement management.

2.Annotated Outline and Bibliography: You will need to clearly lay out the structure of your plan and provide an initial set of annotated references for support.

3.

About Your In-Depth Analysis

Concentrating on managing procurement processes, you will need to describe how each of the following work within your organization:

1. Plan procurements.
2. Conduct procurements.
3. Administer procurements.
4. Close procurements.

Your in-depth analysis should include the following:

• Evaluate the effectiveness of each process.
• List the roles and responsibilities of the project manager in each process.
• Propose best practices to improve three (or more) processes. Explain why your proposed improvements would make procurement more effective.
• Must be 8 pg. and follow APA format

USE THIS BOOK FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN GENERAL. McDavid, C., J., Huse, Irene, Hawthorn, L., L. R. (10/2012). Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice, 2nd Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
RA-1—M3-A2—Over the past two decades, the terms “accountability” and “program evaluation” have become the focus within the human services arena. Due to budgetary constraints and decrease in availability of public funding, the competition for scarce resources has increased. This increased competition has subjected human services agencies to an intense examination where requests for resources are scrutinized carefully.
The first step to conducting a program evaluation is to conduct a needs assessment to determine and justify the reason for carrying out the evaluation of a particular program. A need can be defined as the gap between what is and what should be and can be experienced by an individual, a group, or an entire community.
Tasks:
Using at least 3–5 scholarly resources from the professional literature, research human service needs assessment. The literature may include the University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).
Create a 7- to 9-page report in a Microsoft Word document, including the following:
Identify a program at a social agency or other human services program to which you have access and provide a description of the organizational context including the mission and objectives of the program and why an evaluation is being considered.
Conduct a needs assessment using concepts presented previously to confirm and explain the scope of the problem, the perceived versus actual gap in service, the affected population, whether the need is changing, and in what manner the need may be changing.
Identify possible resources to meet the perceived needs. Discuss what existing resources can be used, what additional information would be needed, and what sources for obtaining data you would use.
Identify the stakeholders who need to be included in the assessment and subsequent evaluation.
Analyze the interpersonal, political, and ethical considerations of interacting with decision makers and stakeholders who may have conflicting priorities and determine strategies for reconciling those priorities.

USE THIS BOOK FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN GENERAL. McDavid, C., J., Huse, Irene, Hawthorn, L., L. R. (10/2012). Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice, 2nd Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].

M5-A1 RA#2

Program evaluation is an essential practice in human services organizations that provides a systematic and scientific approach for decision-making and program intervention. This process ensures that agencies perform effectively by being outcome-oriented and accountable. Since human services are often made up of many elements with complex relationships and dynamics, an evaluator needs to engage in collaborative reflection with key stakeholders, be grounded in people’s experiences, and use data to ask good questions.
For this assignment, build upon the needs assessment conducted in M3 Assignment 2 RA 1 and design a program evaluation plan using appropriate evaluation frameworks discussed in the earlier modules.
Tasks:
Using at least 3–5 scholarly resources from the professional literature, research program evaluation. The literature may include the University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).
Create a 10- to 12-page evaluation plan, including the following:
Program’s Context: Identify the setting (including mission and objectives of the program), target population, and environmental influences within which the program operates.
Purpose of Evaluation: State the purpose of your evaluation. Having a clear purpose prevents hasty decisions in how an evaluation should be conducted. It could be for introducing a new approach to practice, to change an existing one, or to evaluate the effect of existing program activities.
Expected Effects: Describe the desired outcomes (short- and long-term ones) for the program to be successful.
Stakeholders: Identify all the stakeholders who would need to be engaged in the evaluation.
Design of Framework: Choose an evaluation framework that will influence what type of resources will be used as evidence, how that evidence will be gathered and analyzed, and what kind of claims can be made.
Resources (What Is the Required Data?): Determine criteria for effectiveness of the program and the data that would need to be collected to meet the selected criteria.
Selection of Methods (How Can We Get It?): Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different data-gathering techniques and information analysis approaches to ensure quality in the evidence gathered.
Findings (What Does the Data Mean?): Highlight important evaluation findings, including effective strategies to interpret, and present results and recommendations for the program to the stakeholders.
Dissemination of the Findings: Select appropriate communication strategies and develop a communication plan using appropriate media and technology to inform the stakeholders.
Plan for Follow Up for Ongoing Improvement (What Are We Going to Do Now?): Determine how the results will be implemented and monitored.

USE THIS BOOK FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN GENERAL. Kottak, C., Kozaitis, K. (06/2011). On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream, 4th Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online].
Assignment 2: (RA 2): Analysis and Evaluation of the Community Agency Observation
In this assignment, you will turn in your final project documents, analysis, and evaluation of your community agency observation.
Tasks:
Create a report by compiling and reviewing all your documents and research related to the project. Your final submission should include the following:
Analysis and Assessment:
In an 8- to 10-page report, complete the following:
Describe the organization in which the service learning took place, including its policies, procedures, and services. In the description, include the following:
The organization’s community:
What services do they provide?
Who uses the services?
The organization’s location:
How accessible is your agency?
Must they walk or take public transportation?
Must they cross ethnic, racial, class, or gang boundaries? For example, low-income women of color may be hesitant to visit an agency located at a university in an affluent, predominantly white setting.
The organization’s décor:
Is the décor, including the waiting area or reading materials, culturally responsive to diverse populations?
The organization’s staff composition:
What is the ethnic, racial, or class background of the staff?
Does the staff seem culturally aware and responsive?
Assess the multicultural organizational development of the institution where the service learning took place. Make sure that you describe:
The mission statement and programs: Does the agency reflect a commitment to diversity? Is this commitment exemplified by its programs?
Summarize a few critical incidents when multicultural aspects were addressed (directly or indirectly).
Explain how the activities and staff demonstrated multicultural sensitivity when identifying problems and responding to symptoms and help-seeking behaviors.
Analyze how those critical incidents affected your cultural self-awareness and professional relationship, specific to the provision of culturally competent services.
Apply a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach to generate a proposal for what the organization can do to improve its sensitivity to multicultural issues.
Contribution and Reflection:
In a 1- to 2-page report, complete the following:
Summarize the leader’s review of your contribution to the organization.
Explain how you felt that you contributed to the organization. This means expanding on the leader’s review by providing supporting evidence.
Appendix:
Include the following documents as individual appendices.
Service learning weekly self-reflection process worksheets (one for each module after the proposal)
Leader’s 1-page review

Part I. – Introduction (2 slides)

1. – Overview of your presentation
2. Provide a detailed outline which identifies your agenda and learning outcomes.

 

Part II. – Subject Overview (4 slides)

1. Provide an overview of your cost accounting topic
2. What functions within an organization would your topic be relevant
3. Provide an example of an organization which implements your subject-matter as part of their operations.

 

Part III. – Conclusion (2 slides)

1. Provide a wrap up.
2. Any final analysis you want to leave your audience with (you can get creative here!)
3. Are there any addition readings, articles, literature you would recommend to the audience if they wanted to research your topic further?

 

Part IV. – Problem (2 slides)

1. Take the class through your problem and provide an eloquent solution and analysis.

 

 

 

Weinrich Manufacturing uses a job order cost system and applies overhead to production on the basis of direct labor hours. On January 1, 2011, Job No. 25 was the only job in process. The costs incurred prior to January 1 on this job were as follows: direct materials $10,000; direct labor $6,000; and manufacturing overhead $9,000. Job No. 23 had been completed at a cost of $42,000 and was part of finished goods inventory. There was a $5,000 balance in the Raw Materials Inventory account.   During the month of January, the company began production on Jobs 26 and 27, and completed Jobs 25 and 26. Jobs 23 and 25 were sold on account during the month for $63,000 and $74,000, respectively. The following additional events occurred during the month. 1.   Purchased additional raw materials of $40,000 on account. 2.   Incurred factory labor costs of $31,500. Of this amount $7,500 related to employer payroll taxes. 3.   Incurred manufacturing overhead costs as follows: indirect materials $10,000; indirect labor $7,500; depreciation expense $12,000; and various other manufacturing overhead costs on account $11,000. 4.   Assigned direct materials and direct labor to jobs as follows.   Job No. Direct Materials Direct Labor 25 $ 5,000 $ 3,000 26  17,000  12,000 27  13,000   9,000 5.   The company uses direct labor hours as the activity base to assign overhead. Direct labor hours incurred on each job were as follows: Job No. 25, 200; Job No. 26, 800; and Job No. 27, 600. Prepare entries in a job order cost system and job cost sheets. (SO 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

 

 

Instructions (a)   Calculate the predetermined overhead rate for the year 2011, assuming Weinrich Manufacturing estimates total manufacturing overhead costs of $480,000, direct labor costs of $300,000, and direct labor hours of 20,000 for the year. (b)   Open job cost sheets for Jobs 25, 26, and 27. Enter the January 1 balances on the job cost sheet for Job No. 25. (c)   Prepare the journal entries to record the purchase of raw materials, the factory labor costs incurred, and the manufacturing overhead costs incurred during the month of January. (d)   Prepare the journal entries to record the assignment of direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead costs to production. In assigning manufacturing overhead costs, use the overhead rate calculated in (a). Post all costs to the job cost sheets as necessary. (e)   Total the job cost sheets for any job(s) completed during the month. Prepare the journal entry (or entries) to record the completion of any job(s) during the month. Job 25, $37,800 Job 26, $48,200 (f)   Prepare the journal entry (or entries) to record the sale of any job(s) during the month. (g)   What is the balance in the Work in Process Inventory account at the end of the month? What does this balance consist of? (h)   What is the amount of over- or underapplied overhead?

While you are doing your coursework for this program, what workspace are you using? Are you currently at your workplace in your office or cubicle, or perhaps working in a home office or a shared space? Regardless of where you do your work for this class, do you find it to be an ideal workspace? Perhaps you need better lighting, a quieter environment, or inspiring and motivating mementos to keep you focused. Perhaps you need an innovative improvement. These are exactly the types of issues that can be solved by design thinking and the application of your own creative skills.

This week, you will complete assignments that involve the design-thinking process. By utilizing this creative process, you will gain a deeper insight into the ways that you can bring creativity to your own life at work and at home.

Phase 1: Inspiration 

The first phase of the process, as described by Tim Brown, is inspiration.

Take some time to interact with the space where you work. This could be at your job, where you do homework, or your home office. Make sure it is an environment over which you have some control, such as with lighting, sound, furniture placement, etc.

Adopt the role of a neutral observer and generate a list of observations of how you use this workspace. Your list should answer the following questions:

• What about the workspace is already optimized or ideal?
• Why do these things work well?
• What about the workspace could be improved?
• Are there problems or difficulties that you repeatedly experience?
• What behaviors, functions, and interactions that take place in your workspace seem interesting or notable?

Your process should take the form of brainstorming. That is, the initial list does not need to be formal in tone. Rather, you should strive to capture your observations as they occur and generate as many ideas as possible.

After completing your list, write a short paragraph describing in greater depth one of the difficult or problematic aspects of your workspace you identified during the brainstorming phase. This will be the workspace challenge that you will continue to work on for Phase 2 of the design thinking process. Remember, you are not coming up with solutions at this time, but only a detailed description of the workspace challenge you have identified.

Phase 2: Ideation

To begin Phase 2 of the design thinking process, focus on the workspace challenge you identified in Phase 1 of this Discussion. Considering the workspace challenge you indentified, brainstorm a list of at least 10 innovative ideas that could resolve or help you meet the challenge; if you come up with more than 10 ideas, feel free to post them all. To generate innovative ideas, consider the following guidelines:

• Do not evaluate your ideas; all are valid and there are no bad ideas.
• Do not limit your ideas to products. An innovation can also be a new service, process, or organizational change.
• Reach the maximum amount of possible ideas; do not waste time analyzing.
• Do not fear extreme ideas; often the best innovations come from ideas that initially seem extreme.
• Strive to suggest a disruptive innovation if at all possible–a completely new and radical idea.

Post by Day 3 your list of workspace observations and your description of one particular problem from Phase 1, and your innovative ideas list from Phase 2.

Based on what you have learned as a university student, including information and ideas gathered from the Week One and Week Three readings and discussions about general education, write a brief journal entry (350- 500 words) in which you will

•Explain newly-developed skills as well as other learning opportunities acquired through your university experience.

•Describe where and how you acquired the necessary skills that helped you excel through the progression of your education. Be sure to include examples.

•Develop a plan illustrating how you plan to transfer those skills into everyday life.

•Demonstrate critical thinking skills by effectively communicating ideas or points clearly, thoroughly, and accurately.

Select one of the epidemiologic core functions and provide an example of the how the core function might be demonstrated in clinical practice by an advanced nurse practitioner.

 

APA format

3 references needed

250 words needed

 

1. The substantive Criminal Law that defines the rules and procedure as those acts that a society has has declared illegal and has decided to punish a person for transgression thereof. However, the United States Constitution guarantees the accused by what is known as due process. This requires:

a) the existence of a law that prohibits the conduct in question before the violation occurs. What does this mean? How is it applied? Why is this so?

b) a law that is sufficiently certain and clear so that an individual is capable of knowing wnat is permissible and what is illegal. What does this mean? How is it applied? Why is this so?

c) a specifically described penalty that is to be imposed in the event a person is found guilty. What does this mean? How is it applied? Why is this so?

2. Who is the “plaintiff” in a Criminal case? Who might this “plaintiff” be employed by? What rights does the Defendant have? Who guarantees these rights? What are some of these rights? Why do you think that the “plaintiff” is so restricted, and that the accused is so protected? Do you think that accused criminals should have all of this protection?

3. We spoke briefly about the burden of proof in a Criminal case. We determined that tie burden of proof for the prosecution was “to prove that the Defendant was guilty of the crime, based upon credible and legal evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt”. The previous burden used the words “without any doubt whatsoever”, or “beyond the shadow of doubt”. Why do you think that this change was made? What purpose does it serve (if any)?

 

4. Why do we want to “punish” a criminal? Is it to get them where they can no longer reach us? To rehabilitate them? To allow them to learn a new trade? Or are there some other reasons that you might want to put forward?