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In an essay respond to the following:
1.What is the basic meaning of the term data-supported (or data-driven) instruction?
2.What did you learn in the program you are now completing, including in student teaching, about the use of data-supported instruction?
3.What are the specific uses you have made of data-supported instruction in your practicum?
4.What are some of the ways knowledge of and skill in using data-supported instruction have made a difference in your instructional practices?
5.Critically discuss and evaluate the principle that methods of instruction and intervention should be data-supported. Should all instruction be data-supported? If so, why? If not, why not?
6.Discuss the difference in meaning between the terms data-supported instruction and evidence-based methods of instruction. Are these principles of equal importance regarding their application to instruction? If so, why? If not, why not?

There are different philosophies guiding this work that, at times, might conflict with one another. This is particularly true when the direct service provider’s personal values, typically based on his or her cultural experiences and education and training, conflict with the theoretical approach favored by the agency. In addition, you examined the moral and regulatory influences on the direct services provided to the clients.

In this assignment, you will examine the differences in the philosophies of human services workers and their organizations. You will also research on the two theoretical approaches used by human services agencies in service delivery.

Discuss the influence of the competing views between the personal values and morals of the human services direct service provider that guide his or her work compared to that of the philosophy and theoretical approach of an organization in a professional environment. Cite some relevant examples to support your answer.
Discuss the two theoretical approaches that are used by human services agencies to provide direct services.

Short Answers
(Can be answered with roughly 2 to 3 sentences)

The 20 questions below are worth 4 points each.

A school psychologist strongly believes a particular child is in need of special services. What is the psychologist trying to control for if he or she uses the most recently normed test available?

What are two benefits of the WASI?

Identify three improvements of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III.

Provide one advantage and one disadvantage of group-administered intelligence tests.

Give three examples of extra-test behavior on an ability test.

Name three recommended uses for the Woodcock-Johnson III.

Name three things that would be included in the best approach to diagnosing a specific learning ability.

What is the purpose of empirical criterion keying?

Identify two functions of validity scales on personality tests.

Identify a criticism of the MMPI that contributed to the need for developing the MMPI-2. Identify a criticism of the MMPI-2.What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?

What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?

Identify three criticisms of projective tests.

What principle do assessors utilize when interpreting the TAT?

Give an example of a behavioral assessment approach.

What does a mental status exam assess?

Give an example of the Barnum effect.

Why is it recommended to utilize the BDI-II with other tests?

What are three things that the Tower of Hanoi measures?

Give an example of a performance assessment.

What is an assessment center and what is it utilized for?

Essay Questions

The essay questions below are worth 10 points each.

Compare and contrast two established personality assessments discussed in the course. Include in your discussion strengths and limitations of each measure.

Throughout the course, issues related to cultural diversity have been addressed. Identify one intelligence, educational, or personality measure and describe its strengths and weaknesses as it relates to diversity.

Identify and describe at least three ethical dilemmas or responsibilities a psychological assessor may face.

2 Recent Articles (less than 10 years old) about how to prevent prostrate cancer. This coursework is about The main role of a pharmacist can prevent prostate cancer. What can the pharmacist do! to show early detection of prostrate with back up journals, how can they can prevent it.

Students must submit an essay addressing one of the three topics below. In completing the essay students are required to review and include at least five articles published in academic journals that relate to the essay question. Three of these articles should be the ones used in the annotated bibliography assessment. The essays should be clearly argued and reflect your critical thinking on the topic. The tutorial for Week 2/3 will provide guidance about essay writing. Further information will be available in the assessment folder on the portal unit site.
1) Are people with mental health problems at increased risk of violent offending? Discuss.
2) Are interventions with children and adolescents who are at risk of future offending effective? Discuss.
3) Psychological research shows that eyewitness testimony is not always accurate, therefore it should not be used in the criminal justice system. Discuss.
The School of Criminology has an Essay Writing and Study Guide available on its website at https://www4.gu.edu.au/arts/ccj/study_guide/. This will provide you with help in getting started with your essay.

Task: Critically evaluate two empirical research studies (one quantitative, one qualitative) in criminology. Your reflection must address the following set of questions about both research studies:
Research question: What is the research question(s) or problem? Please explain.
Theoretical framework: What was the theoretical framework (i.e., literature review which includes theories and/or past research used to introduce and justify the relevance of the study)? Please discuss the most important elements of the theoretical framework and whether it was appropriate for the research question(s) addressed in this study.
Hypotheses: Were any hypotheses stated? What were these hypotheses? Were these hypotheses justified adequately in terms of the theoretical framework and prior research? Please explain.
Methodology: Was any particular research design used? Was any particular sampling method used? Was a survey, participant observation, qualitative interviews or some other data collection method used? Discuss the methodology used by the authors and how well the methodology was suited to the research question posed and the specific hypotheses tested, if any? Explain why the author(s) chose this particular method?
Results: Discuss the main findings in relation to the research question(s). Discussion and conclusion: What additional research questions and hypotheses are suggested by the study’s results? Discuss the findings in relation to the theoretical framework used and social policy questions.
HINT: Stronger papers will discuss the two research studies together (comparing/contrasting).
Your critical reflection must be 2,000 words, and in essay format (i.e. a reasoned critical reflection in narrative form), use APA referencing guidelines, and follow the formatting requirements set out in the course profile.

A Suggested Format for Your Literature Review

1) Statements of the problem(s):
This part usually makes clear what the problems are. For example, students’ inability of dealing with expository texts, or students with less exposure to print before they come to school requiring more attention from teachers to keep up.
The description of the problem should be as detailed as possible. Usually some literature would be cited to support your argument about the existence of the problem(s). Your classroom experience can also be used as part of the description.
The length varies. I think one or two paragraphs of about 200 words might be a good one for this class.

2) Methodology
This section will focus on how you go about identifying and collecting the literature and how decide on using which ones from your search that has identified literature. In particular, you may want to pay attention to the issues of reliability and manageability. You need to set up the criteria through which identification of literature is accomplished. Usually in identifying scholarly literature, you will describe how you locate it, make decisions to include it, and rationales for its sufficiency on the topic.

3) Results and discussions
This section summarizes the results of your literature review and organizes your interpretations of the results. You need to present convincing evidence to illustrate that the arguments you are advancing to summarize the literature are valid or make sense. Usually a themed approach is the best way to synthesize literature on a topic. Do not report the results simply as annotated bibliography. In addition, your interpretations would usually have practical implications for teachers, which you should state clearly.

4) Conclusions
You need to conclude by pointing out the limitations of your literature review and the directions of possible future literature reviews on the topic.

5) References
This serves as a separate entity from the paper proper. Use APA style for reference list.

Some helpful notes about the review of literature paper
Procedures:
In reviewing the literature to write the paper, you would consider including the following procedural practices:

Collect peer-refereed journal articles only on the topic you have decided to pursue.

Read carefully and take AMPLE notes to familiarize yourself with the topic.

Consider the themes or central elements in the papers and try to organize them into a reasonable structure for writing.

Be careful about the conclusions and always use support from the literature to back up what you have been discussing.

Be careful editing and revising the paper. Invite someone to read it over for you if need be.

Structure of the paper:
State the purpose
Describe the search criteria (methods)
Discuss the literature you have collected and read
Draw conclusions
Reference section

What needs to be taken care of?
Writing, reasoning, APA style
Demonstrate your knowledge of the topic

How long?
It should be about 10 pages without counting the references. It needs to be typed with 12 point font. You need to clearly mark the page numbers. Please use a separate cover sheet.

Paper Assignment #2
Literary Analysis

Description:

A Literary Analysis is a paper in which students make connections between texts, often times using particular themes found in a text. These papers use quotations and paraphrases from the texts to make their points and require outside scholarly research (information from databases) to support their conclusions.

Requirements:

1. Students papers should be a minimum of 1,250-1,500 words in length.

2. Student papers must include a minimum of two scholarly sources in addition to the primary literary text(s).

3. All papers are expected to be in MLA format with a Works Cited Page. If you have forgotten MLA paper and citation formatting, you can find information in a writing handbook or at the Purdue OWL:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

4. The final draft of this paper must be submitted to Turnitin.com by December 18th.

Expectations:

Our book has a section on writing about fiction (pp. 14-59). You might want to take a look at some or all of this material.
• Review the material on “Writing about Literature” in our book on pages 2269-2329, especially “Chapter 37: The Research Essay” and “Chapter 38: Quotation, Citation, and Documentation.”

Essay Prompts: Choose one of the follow prompts for your literary analysis paper.

Option #1:
Write a paper in which you analyze the family dynamics in the Younger family. Choose one family relationship (brother-sister, mother-daughter-in-law, etc.) and discuss how race and class affect the way this relationship works.

Option #2:
Write an essay in which you discuss Irene and Clare’s relationship. How do you see their friendship? The criticism in the book along with other material found in the book will be very helpful in analyzing their complicated relationship.

After you have read about biblical theology, written your understanding of what theology is and where it happens from the perspective of biblical theology, and worked on the other assignments for this section, please conclude your week’s work by reflecting on what you perceive to be both the merits and the risks of doing biblical theology.

Identify three characteristics of biblical theology that you see as strengths/benefits of this method. And identify three characteristics that you see as weaknesses/risks of this method.

Support each of these with evidence from your readings. Use specific quotes from the readings and engage with them thoughtfully as you assess the strengths and weaknesses of this method.

Company is Samsung Galaxy Electronics

1. How does your company’s prices compare to competitors who sell the same or similar products? Overall, does your company’s prices seem high or low?
2. Do you think your company is basing their pricing mostly on cost (such as a cost-plus approach) or are other factors at play? Consider the concepts of prestige pricing in D’Antonio (2012) or value-based pricing mentioned in the Pearson tutorial.
3. Discuss at least three other pricing strategies from D’Antonio (2012), Paley (2006), or the Pearson tutorial and explain whether or not you think your company is using these strategies. Explain your reasoning, and remember to cite the sources where you read about the pricing strategies from in your answer.

* Paley, N. (2006). Chapter 10: Pricing for profits: Strategies to maintain premium prices and higher margins. Manager’s Guide to Competitive Marketing Strategies. Thorogood, London, GBR. [Ebrary]

* D’Antonio, L. (2012). Chapter 10: Pricing. In Bolland, E., & Fletcher, F. (Eds.). Solutions: Business Problem Solving. Abingdon, GBR: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.[Ebrary]