Friday, 13 June 2014

Measurement and Instruments for a Quantitative Research Plan

Research Plan

  • Submit: Measurement and Instruments for a Quantitative Research Plan

  • Consider the research plan you are developing for the Final Project.
  • What levels of measurement will be important for your study? Why?
  • How will you ensure content validity, empirical validity, and construct validity for your study? If any of these types of validity do not apply to your plan, provide a rationale.
  • How will you ensure reliability for the measurement in your study?
  • Consider the strengths and limitations of the measurement instrument you have selected in terms of reliability and validity.
  • What scale is appropriate for you to use for your plan? Why? How do you know your scale is reliable and valid? If you can't find reliability and validity for your scale, how would you demonstrate that the scale is reliable and valid?
  • What test is appropriate for your plan? Identify it as norm or criterion referenced.
  • What population is used for the scale and test (see Week 5 Discussion)?
  • Provide references to the literature to support your choices and rationales.
The assignment:
  • Craft a 7- to 9-page paper that includes the following:

o    The levels of measurement that will be important for your study and why.
o    How you will ensure content validity, empirical validity, and construct validity for your study. If any of these types of validity do not apply to your plan, provide a rationale.
o    How you will ensure reliability for the measurement in your study.
o    The strengths and limitations of the measurement instrument you have selected in terms of reliability and validity.
o    Which scale is appropriate for you to use for your plan and why.
o    A justification of how you know your scale is reliable and valid. If you can't find reliability and validity for your scale, describe how you would demonstrate that the scale is reliable and valid.
o    What test is appropriate for your plan, and whether it is norm or criterion referenced.
o    What population is used for the scale and test (see Week 5 Discussion).
o    At least 10 references to the literature to support your choices and rationales.


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Application: Memoirs

Application: Memoirs
Austrian heir to the throne assassinated!
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia!
Britain declares war on Germany!
The news is getting worse!
Imagine you are a citizen of a country that has just entered into the Great War (later known as World War I). You have read the headlines and the accounts of the events leading up to the war. You have heard daily radio updates. You are bombarded with news. Yet, you feel there is a gap in the reporting—where the news accounts end and the story of the real war begins.
This week for your assignment, you will write your own account of the war, and tell the truth of the war from your perspective. Your fictional memoir will tell the story of everyday people, and how war has affected daily life.
To prepare for this Application:
  • Choose a country from which to write your memoir. Select one that entered into World War I in 1914 and that you have studied extensively in this course.
  • Review Chapter 7 (pp. 96–103) and Chapter 8 ( pp. 105–118)in this week's Learning Resources to gain a bird's eye perspective on world events leading up to the start of World War I, especially for the country you choose to write your memoir based on. Also review the articles by Barron, O'Hara & Heffernan, and Share in this week's Learning Resources to understand the matters of importance to nations at this time in history.
  • Consider how your chosen country has changed between the Era of Imperialism and the beginning of World War I.
  • Consider what political, social, geographical, and economic changes have occurred since the start of the war, and how you, your family and your community have been affected (supposing you lived in this country, at this time in history).
  • Reflect on how nationalism has influenced your response to entry into war, and the response of your compatriots (again, supposing you lived in this country, at this time in history).
The assignment:
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Hr operations

Hr operations


TaskPredecessorNormal TimeCrash TimeCrash Cost Slope
ANone77NA
BA33NA
CA84600
DA44NA
EB65600
FC, D22NA
GE, F66NA
HF53400
IG, H44NA
JI22NA
In a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, address the following:
  • Draw the AON project network using Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, or some other tool capable of creating such a network. Perform a critical path analysis for the network and calculate the ES, EF, LS, and LF times.
  • Calculate the slack time for each activity.
  • Identify the critical path.
  • Assume that the organization will receive a $400 bonus for each day the duration of the project is shortened. The organization is also responsible for paying the crash cost associated with shortening the schedule. To maximize the net profit, identify which task you should crash and by how much.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.


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Operations and Supply Chain Mangement

Dunstreet’s Department Store would like to develop an inventory ordering policy with a 95 percent probability of not stocking out. To illustrate your recommended procedure, use as an example the ordering policy for white percale sheets. Demand for white percale sheets is 5,000 per year. The store is open 365 days per year. Every two weeks inventory is counted and a new order is placed. It takes 10 days for the sheets to be delivered. Standard deviation of demand for the sheets is five per day. There are currently 150 sheets on hand. How many sheets should you order?


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LAW AND COMMUNICATION

Compare and contrast male and female gang members. Why do these differences exist?

2.
Determine the family and school risk factors for gang involvement.

3.
Discuss the three models used to understand the relationship between delinquency and gang involvement. Which do you agree with most? Why?

4.
Name and explain various juvenile justice responses to the youth gang problem.

5.
What is the prevalence of school violence today? Discuss the steps taken to prevent school violence?

6.
What are the alternatives police officers have in dealing with juveniles? Do you think amount of discretion give to law enforcement in dealing with youth is appropriate? Explain.

7.
Distinguish between “traditional” bullying and “cyber” bullying. Is one more serious than the other? Explain why or why not.
8.
Discuss the four pronged threat assessment approach and its purpose.

9.
Compare and contrast the Justice Model with the Welfare Model.

10.
Distinguish between and give examples for static and dynamic risk factors. How do these factors play a part in the pretrial process?

11.
Compare and contrast therapeutic and coercive treatment. Which do you believe is most effective? Support your answer.

12.
What are the characteristics of juvenile court? Why are these important in dealing with juveniles?

13.
Describe the four components that are typically included in a modern, comprehensive graduated sanctions system. What are the essential features of this system? Why is it important to have these features?

14.
Explain and discuss the importance of reentry and aftercare. Why is it important to plan for it in advance? When should planning start?
15.
What is meant by gender based responsivity? What are the six guiding principles for effective treatment for females?

ASSIGNMENT 2

Family Communication

In the first week of class you described some of the communication rules that are present in your family.  After reviewing guidelines for effective communication in families describe how you want your current or future family to communicate.  What communication rules might you implement?  Describe what you will do to make sure you will meet the challenges of family life. (Length 2-3 paragraphs)


ASSIGNMENT 3

1.

Discuss mindfulness and its pertinence to effective listening in interpersonal communication. In your discussion, indicate whether mindfulness is a technique or an attitude and explain how we express our mindfulness to others whom we are interacting.

2.
Describe a situation where you would (or would not) express an emotion for an ethical reason. Based on the guidelines for communicating emotions effectively that were raised in the textbook, discuss how two of these guidelines would influence how to act in this situation.
3.
Distinguish between love and commitment. Then, explain how each is communicated and how it affects relationships between people.

4.
Discuss 3 different approaches to conflict and give an example of each.

5.
Describe how gender plays a role in communication. Then, describe how gender communication affects friendships, romantic love relationships, and family relationships.

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ER/EER model into a relational data mode

Assignment 1
> to represent a problem description given in natural language as an (Enhanced) Entity -Relationship model;
> to convert the ER/EER model into a relational data model;
> to apply Normalization techniques (Bottom-Up approach) on the user-defined forms;
> to implement a relational database system (using ORACLE11g).


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Both face-to-face and online students will undertake this assessment task.

Both face-to-face and online students will undertake this assessment task.
The individual assignment (approximately 3000 words) should be done in essay format with headings and it is designed to allow you to develop through research a practically orientated topic. This task requires you to select a particular product/ service or event category of interest to you and discuss specific consumer behaviour influences related to it.
The research paper will be presented in two sections: Section A is a reflective piece in which you analyse your own thoughts and behaviours towards your chosen product/service/event category; Section B addresses the Consumer Behaviour themes raised in the previous section.
You are expected to apply some of the concepts/ models or theories used in the course as well as secondary research (eg. periodicals, trade publications, newspapers etc). The essay should link the concepts/theories or models to the chosen product or service and provide some insight into the kind of behaviour trends that are relevant at the present time, or may be relevant in the future. Students should also analyse the consumer behaviour issues and discuss the implications these issues may have for marketers.


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