...Technology Needs Assessment 3 Problem Statement 8 Project Goals 8 Project Objectives 8 Conclusion 9 References 10 Introduction Kurzweil predicts that “in 2009, while schools are still not on the cutting edge, the profound importance of the computer as a knowledge tool is widely recognized. Computers play a central role in all facets of education, as they do in other spheres of life” (Kurzweil, 1999, p. 276). It is now 2006 and Kurzweil’s prediction of the computer being widely recognized as a knowledge tool is ahead of schedule. It is also true that schools are far from being on the cutting edge. Some schools are better than others, but the computer is sorely lacking in the classroom. The writer’s organization is a proprietary art college in Central Florida. The school is part of a large corporation that oversees more than sixty schools across the United States. Thirty one of the schools are art colleges. The art colleges are leaders in using the computer in the classroom. The corporation takes pride in putting high end technology in front of students to produce commercial art work in the form of graphic design, interactive design, digital video and animation. Often students choose the proprietary art college over community college or state university because of the high end computer labs and other technology that the private school has on campus. Potential students see the technology as an added value worth paying extra for. Technology Needs Assessment ...
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...Brittney Hughes September 7, 2014 Each day children attend school to receive an education. But although school is necessary and beneficial for becoming productive citizens, there are experiences such as bullying and racism that make them not want to go. These experiences end up marking youth for the rest of their lives. Some children find an outlet to their problems by bulling others. Over the years bullying has grown tremendously affecting our schools and communities and as a result our future generations and their lively hood are at stake. Historically, bullying took place in the mid 1970s. Dan Olweus, a research professor of psychology, was the first to conduct an intensive study on bullying among students using his own systematic researching methods (Voo, 2007, p. 112). He created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which had significant results in reducing school bullying (Hazelden Foundation, 2007). Olweus’s efforts and solutions contributed greatly to the fight against bullying increasing awareness, initiating other professionals to conduct more research, and expanding the knowledge of bullying (Voo, 2007). Because of Olweus’s efforts researchers suggest that there have been a positive impact on decreasing school violence and bringing safety awareness to schools. Bullying and racism are problems that have been a part of America’s...
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...Assessment Tasks Assessor Guide BSBRSK501A: Manage risk Copyright ownership: United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd. This book is copyright protected under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. This book is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or copied either in part or in whole nor used for financial gain without the express approval in writing of the owner (United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd) of the copyright. United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd 50 Cupania Street Algester Qld 4115 Ph: (07) 3276 0549 Email: info@ubsconsultants.com.au Web: www.ubsconsultants.com.au BSBRSK501A: Manage risk Assessment Tasks: Assessor Guide Assessment Documentation This Assessor Guide is designed to provide standardised documentation and assessment procedure for the assessment processes conducted by this RTO. The assessment tools that are used by you (the assessor) will result in evidence being generated by the student targeting this unit of competency. The evidence is kept by the RTO and is required for audit purposes. The following table summarises the types of evidence students can generate as proof of competence. The table contains information based on the AQF (Australian Qualifications Framework) Level for the unit BSBRSK501A: Manage risk. Sample assessment tools have been suggested as a means of assisting students in generating the appropriate form of evidence for this unit. AQF Level Distinguishing Features (Source: AQF...
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...Assessment Exemplar Assessment tasks The table below summarises how the assessment exemplar task is to be marked and also indicates the evidence which should be retained for external moderation. |Suggested task |Suggested evidence to be retained | | | | |Project |All candidate evidence to be retained | |This project-based Graded Unit is in the form of a case | | |study and will be marked out of 100. Assessors will |All checklists to be completed and retained | |aggregate the marks achieved by the candidate for each | | |stage to arrive at an overall mark for the project. | | |Assessors will then assign a grade to the candidate for | | |this Graded Unit assessment based on the following grade | | |boundaries: | | | ...
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...Candidate Details Assessment – BSB51407 – Procurement Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer for review. This forms part of your assessment. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ Employer: _____________________________________________________________ Declaration I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for me by another person. Signed: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________________________________ If activities have been completed as part of a small group or in pairs, details of the learners involved should be provided below; This activity workbook has been completed by the following persons and we acknowledge that it was a fair team effort where everyone contributed equally to the work completed. We declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where we have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for us by another person. Learner 1: ____________________________________________________________ ...
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...Assessment Tasks Candidate Guide BSBCUS501A: Manage quality customer service Copyright ownership: United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd. This book is copyright protected under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. This book is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or copied either in part or in whole nor used for financial gain without the express approval in writing of the owner (United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd) of the copyright. United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd 50 Cupania Street Algester Qld 4115 Ph: (07) 3276 0549 Email: info@ubsconsultants.com.au Web: www.ubsconsultants.com.au BSBCUS501A: Manage quality customer service Assessment Tasks: Candidate Guide Assessment Information The assessment activities associated with the unit of competency BSBCUS501A: Manage quality customer service are listed below: Assessment 1: Written Written answers to questions Assessment 2: Project Written responses to tasks Assessment 3: Project Written responses to tasks Assessment 4: Project Written responses to tasks This guide contains all of the assessment tasks required for completion of unit of competency BSBCUS501A: Manage quality customer service. Prior to commencing the assessments your assessor will explain each task to you. You will be given the opportunity to ask questions and to seek clarification on any of the tasks, and your assessor will...
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...clarify that the candidate has shown knowledge and performance skills throughout the work place. The assessor only has a limited amount of time to spend with each candidate so using this assessment method allows others to contribute in the assessment process. Witness Testimonies can provide useful information to the assessor but only when the source is valid and reliable. Evidence provided by the witness should be fair, reliable, valid and appropriate to standards and criteria of the specific qualification. The evidence should be signed and dated by the witness and if felt appropriate the assessor should communicate with the witness to confirm authenticity. A copy of the witness testimony should be placed into each candidate’s profile. This is to ensure that if an internal verifier was to check then all the information and evidence will be present. The information provided by the witness testimony should never be used upon solely to make an assessment decision. The assessor should use the information gathered as a guide to help inform them in making the correct assessment decision. A witness testimony can be conducted by a colleague to the client who does a similar role or who has experience or perhaps more appropriately a supervisor or manager could do this for the assessor. Whoever does it, they need to witness the learner doing their job. The assessor will have to work out who is the most suitable & willing witness as well as ensuring that they are available to do the testimony...
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...GREEN GUIDE TO 3 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES GREEN RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: TRAINING TOOLKIT FOR HUMANITARIAN AID The Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit (GRRT) is dedicated to the resilient spirit of people around the world who are recovering from disasters. We hope that the GRRT has successfully drawn upon your experiences in order to ensure a safe and sustainable future for us all. GREEN GUIDE TO 3 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Jonathan Randall, World Wildlife Fund Emma Jowett, Consultant A NOTE TO USERS: The Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit (GRRT) is a training program designed to increase awareness and knowledge of environmentally sustainable disaster recovery and reconstruction approaches. Each GRRT module package consists of (1) training materials for a workshop, (2) a trainer’s guide, (3) slides, and (4) a technical content paper that provides background information for the training. This is the technical content paper that accompanies the one-day training session on environmental impact assessment tools and techniques. Cover photo © Brent Stirton/Getty Images/WWF © 2010 World Wildlife Fund, Inc. and 2010 American National Red Cross. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second...
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...2013 © smallPRINT Aug 2013 Assessment Records BSBPMG522A Undertake project work BSBPMG522A: Undertake project work Unit information Unit code BSBPMG522A Unit title Undertake project work Unit descriptor This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to undertake a straightforward project or a section of a larger project. This unit addresses the management of projects, including developing a project plan, administering and monitoring the project, finalising the project, and reviewing the project to identify lessons learned for application to future projects. Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement. Employability skills This unit contains employability skills. Application of the unit The unit focuses on the application of project-management skills and the requirement to meet timelines, quality standards, budgetary limits and other requirements set for the project. The unit does not apply to specialist project managers. For specialist project managers, the other units of competency in the project management field (BSBPMG) will be applicable. Unit sector or competency field None specified. Pre-requisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units None specified. Context of and specific resources for assessment Assessment must ensure: access to workplace project documentation demonstration...
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...|BSBPMG510A Manage projects | |Please fill in your details | |Student Number | | |Student Name | | |Current Address | | |Email | | |Assessor Name | | | |Result |Individual Assessments|Assessment 1 |S ( NS ( |Final Result |C ( | | |result | | | | | | | |Assessment 2 |S ( NS ( | | | | | |Assessment 3 ...
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...ON ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT The primary challenge in project management is to achieve all of the defined project goals and objectives while adhering to typical constraints which are usually scope, quality, time, and budget. Often, the basic flaw in project planning and design is the complete neglect or minimal consideration of environmental and social costs and dependence only on economic analysis for project preparation and investment. A failure to understand and internalize diverse or negative impacts on environment during project preparation could lead to several undesirable consequences, which may ultimately jeopardize the very objectives of growth and development for which the project was proposed. The need for environmental management for successful project completion is stressed upon and the challenges of addressing the key environmental issues are discussed. Environmental management is not just about the ‘trees and bees’ but also about health, safety, profits, quality assurance, reduced risks to reputation, and increased global competitiveness, states the author. Overall, it is about efficiency and reducing environmental and legal liabilities. It is argued that sound environment management reduces the unforeseen obstacles and bottlenecks that may otherwise hamper the delivery of project objectives while helping to improve the environmental performance of project operations. Environmental...
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...AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: PETROLEUM REFINERY: Irving Oil Company TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................3 1.1 Background.............................................................................................................3 1.2 Purpose....................................................................................................................3 1.3 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process.................................................3 1.4 Definitions/Glossary...............................................................................................6 2.0 METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EIA.................................................................8 2.1 General....................................................................................................................8 2.2 Study Boundaries and Scope of Factors.................................................................8 2.3 Prediction of Environmental Effects.......................................................................9 2.4 Cumulative Environmental Effects.........................................................................10 2.5 Mitigation, Contingency and Compensation..........................................................10 2.6 Commitment to Monitoring and Follow-Up...........................................................11 2...
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...Reggie Thurman. Project 1 IS3110 Mr. Rivers October 19, 2013 Project 1 Part 1: Risk Mgmt. Plan 1. Introduction Risk Mgmt. Plan Well for starters the purpose of this risk management for DLIS (Defense Logistics Information Service) plan will be similar to the purpose of any organization would be and that would be how to better protect and secure the company’s IT environment. The importance of this is major since there is all kind of important data that is on and transmitted throughout our networks on a daily basis. DLIS we must ensure that we implement all necessary preventative security measures as well as policies and procedures. We must do this by first of all ensuring that we have really good antivirus software installed on all of our systems and ensuring that it is always up to date. The next thing is extensively configuring our firewalls making it more difficult for our networks to be hacked. Another thing is data encryption which is very vital in securing all important data for our company and clients especially when we are performing data transmission over the networks. The last thing I want to mention which will be part of policies and procedure is implementing various password and logon policies and procedures for security purposes as well. As I stated the purpose of the development of this plan is to reduce the risk of threats and vulnerabilities on our networks. This is vital because threats and vulnerabilities definitely present risk(s) to any...
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...In search of the competent project manager Crawford, L Project Management Program, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway NSW Australia 2007 As project management matures as a profession there is increasing international interest in the concept of project management competence. Demand for added value and the impact of the information age on work practices has meant that we are constantly required to deliver more for less with increasing emphasis on the competence to deliver value. Whether we recognise it or not, in every aspect of our lives, we are increasingly delivering results through projects. This places emphasis on competence of people who manage and contribute to projects. A major international research project is enhancing understanding of the project management role and of the environments in which projects are managed. It is providing clues in the search for the competent project manager. 1. Introduction Project management is often referred to as the ‘accidental profession’ [1]. It is also a profession in formation, and much of the attention given to project management competence reflects attempts to pin down, or better understand the evolving nature of project management and the role of the project manager. Although there has been focus on the search for the competent project manager, there is growing appreciation that projects will be delivered more effectively if there is synergy between the project management competence of individuals...
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...Environmental Health Impact Assessment., Evaluation of a Ten-Step Model Rainer Fehr "Environmental impact assessment" denotes the attempt to predict and assess the impact of development projects on the environment. A component dealing specifically with human health is often called an "environmental health impact assessment." It is widely held that such impact assessment offers unique opportunities for the protection and promotion of human health. The following components were identified as key elements of an integrated environmental health impact assessment model: project analysis, analysis of status quo (including regional analysis, population analysis, and background situation), prediction of impact (including prognosis of future pollution and prognosis of health impact), assessment of impact, recommendations, communication of results, and evaluation of the overall procedure. The concept was applied to a project of extending a waste disposal facility and to a city bypass highway project. Currently, the coverage of human health aspects in environmental impact assessment still tends to be incomplete, and public health departments often do not participate. Environmental health impact assessment as a tool for health protection and promotion is underutilized. It would be useful to achieve consensus on a comprehensive generic concept. An international initiative to improve the situation seems worth some consideration. (Epidemiology 1999;10:618625) Keywords:...
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