Explain how you would decide whether to use an existing measure or create your own. Describe multiple strategies to identify and locate existing measures of psychological constructs.

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Practical Strategies for Psychological Measurement

  1. Specify the four broad steps in the measurement process.
  2. Explain how you would decide whether to use an existing measure or create your own.
  3. Describe multiple strategies to identify and locate existing measures of psychological constructs.
  4. Describe several general principles for creating new measures and for implementing existing and new measures.
  5. Create a simple plan for assessing the reliability and validity of an existing or new measure.

 

Identify the conclusions researchers can make based on the outcome of their studies. Describe why scientists avoid the term “scientific proof.”

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Drawing Conclusions and Reporting the Results

  1. Identify the conclusions researchers can make based on the outcome of their studies.
  2. Describe why scientists avoid the term “scientific proof.”
  3. Explain the different ways that scientists share their findings

 

Identify appropriate and efficient approaches to analyzing data in a mixed-methods study. Explain how you might conduct a systematic review of qualitative research studies regarding a particular topic.

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Data Analytics

12.1 Identify situations in which mixed-methods designs are especially useful.

12.2 Describe general characteristics and purposes of

  • (a) convergent designs,
  • (b) embedded designs,
  • (c) exploratory designs,
  • (d) explanatory designs, and
  • (e) multiphase iterative designs.

12.3 Describe effective strategies for conducting mixed-methods research, especially those related to

  • (a) identifying research questions and hypotheses,
  • (b) conducting a literature review
  • (c) choosing one or more samples
  • (d) maximizing the overall validity of a research project
  • (e) addressing potential ethical concerns

12.4 Identify appropriate and efficient approaches to analyzing data in a mixed-methods study.

12.5 Explain how you might conduct a systematic review of qualitative research studies regarding a particular topic.

 

How is the consumer space depicted in this sequence? How is the space designed to appeal to consumers, and how might this align with the principles we have learned about in class?

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Despicable Me ”Minions go shopping”

These assignments will provide you with an opportunity to reflect upon the course topics through an analysis of something specific, such as an advertisement, a marketing campaign, a store, or a media clip.looking for evidence that you have been thinking analytically about what was discussed in class and are critically engaging with or applying these ideas; thus, critical thinking and analytical engagement are key. Written assignments are evaluated with a number of characteristics in mind, such as content, organization, style, and mechanics. Reflections should be analytical and specific; claims must be substantiated, and all content must be grammatically correct. Strong reflections consist of well-written, detailed, and sophisticated arguments with proper citations.

Prompt: Watch this scene from the film Despicable Me in which the minions go shopping:

How is the consumer space depicted in this sequence? How is the space designed to appeal to consumers, and how might this align with the principles we have learned about in class? Be sure to engage with the details of the clip

Using three influence tactics from Chapter 4, how do you use these in your own life? How will these tactics help you with your leadership development?

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Journal Entry Requirements:

Your journal entry is not for reciting facts, it is a self-reflection on what you have learned and how you plan to use or have used the information. Use concepts from the leadership text as must as possible to guide your journal writing. Keep entries to a minimum of 200 words unless otherwise instructed. You may add an interesting leadership quote or leadership cartoon. Reference the text for leadership concepts cited.  You are required to complete a journal entry each week.  The journal entry is for you and me.  You do NOT respond to any peers. Grades will be given based on content and word count. Feel free to use this word document to submit your answer or create a new document.

Journal Entry 4

Using three influence tactics from Chapter 4, how do you use these in your own life?  How will these tactics help you with your leadership development?

 

Historically, have innovations and reform in budgeting tended to start from local governments and flow to the state and federal practices or has it generally run the other way?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  1. The Urban Institute reading, State and Local Revenuesreports total revenues for U.S. local governments in 2019 and the reading by Erin Duffin reports total revenues for reporting U.S. nonprofit organizations in 2016.    Even though the reporting years are different, which one collected more revenues – Local governments or nonprofit organizations (show your comparative figures)?
  2. Expenditures on Health and Hospitals (in Urban Institute, State and Local Expenditures) – Looking at Percentage change in state and local expenditures – has spending on Health and Hospitals (1) stayed about the same or (2) grown substantially  in the period between 1977 and 2019?
  3. Local Government Revenues (in Urban Institute, State and Local Revenues) – in 2019 did local governments collect more revenue through property taxes or intergovernmental transfers?
  4. Class, Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States: In this reading many budgeting and financial concepts are mentioned that we will study in more detail later.   It is valuable to see the historical and social circumstances that gave rise to them. Briefly answer the following in a sentence or two.
    1. Historically, have innovations and reform in budgeting tended to start from local governments and flow to the state and federal practices or has it generally run the other way?
    2. During which of the four major U.S. historical periods of budgeting were program and performance budgeting first conceived?
  • During the Post World War II period there were two or more new budgeting innovations or systems.  These were linked to the economic circumstances.  In a short paragraph (two or three sentences) describe one of these innovations and note the economic circumstances that gave rise to it.
  1. In your next management position you encounter an extremely cumbersome budget reporting practice that consumes what you believe is and inappropriate amount of time for information that you perceive is of limited current value.  What might Irene Rubin’s (the author of Class, Tax and Power…) guidance and insights suggest to you about the potential source of this budget reporting practice?

 

 

How does Vigee-Lebrun represent herself differently in each portrait? How does she engage the viewer in different ways? How is the palette of each work different?

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Vigee-Lebrun’s Portraiture

First, read the text covering Vigee-Lebrun’s Portraiture:

  1. Vigee Lebrun, Portraitist

Then, use the Vigee-Lebrun comparison images in the module to write an approximately 250-word essay comparing her pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary portrait. After the Revolution rococo art went out of style and was associated with the vanquished former monarchy. It was no longer fashionable for men to wear colorful or ornamental clothing and makeup, and women were encouraged to be “modest”.

Consider the following questions in your essay:

  1. How does Vigee-Lebrun represent herself differently in each portrait?
  2. How does she engage the viewer in different ways?
  3. How is the palette of each work different?

 

While Wired suggests that a 10,000 goal is most likely, other webpages suggest that a campaign of $10,000 or less is most likely – not a population with a mean of $10,000. Do your results suggest that this is true? Why or why not?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

QUESTION 1: Use the mean() function to find out the mean of the successful sample. Why do you think the Wired campaign suggested a mean of $10,000?

Answer:

QUESTION 2: Is the average failed campaign goal from 2016 significantly different from a goal of $10,000? Support your answer with your p-value and the mean of the failed campaign goals. (don’t forget to put your p-value)

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QUESTION 3: While Wired suggests that a 10,000 goal is most likely, other webpages suggest that a campaign of $10,000 or less is most likely – not a population with a mean of $10,000. Do your results suggest that this is true? Why or why not?

Answer:

QUESTION 4: One of the goals was to get rid of Kickstarter campaigns that weren’t actually real, but were jokes. What else could you filter out to get rid of fake campaigns from this dataset? Be specific (and talk about this data, not how you could collect better data). (Be specific – look at the sorts of things you would need to filter out!)

Answer:

 

Distinguish between a theory and a hypothesis. Discover how theories are used to generate hypotheses and how the results of studies can be used to further inform theories.

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Developing a Hypothesis

  1. Distinguish between a theory and a hypothesis.
  2. Discover how theories are used to generate hypotheses and how the results of studies can be used to further inform theories.
  3. Understand the characteristics of a good hypothesis

Discuss and critically evaluate the evidence on intervention options for a) ADHD and b) ASD.

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Intervention options

Discuss and critically evaluate the evidence on intervention options for a) ADHD and b) ASD.