...CXC Social Studies Project School Based Assessment (S.B.A) (Year 2014) Name of Candidate: School: Centre #: Candidate #: Teacher: Table of Contents Chapter Page Introduction 1 Acknowledgement 2 Statement of Problem 3 Reason for Selecting Area of Research 4 Method of Investigation 5 Instrument used for Investigation 6-7 Procedure for Data Collection 8 Presentation of Data 9-13 Analysis and Interpretation of Data 14 Findings 15 Recommendations 16 Acknowledgement First and foremost the researcher would like to thank herself for conducting such a wonderful survey for her School Based Assessment (S.B.A). Thanks to her teacher Mr. U. Dureke for guiding her through her School Based Assessment. Special thanks to the students who took time out to voice their opinions on this topic and answer the questionnaires. The researcher would also like to thank her mother for providing the equipment and funds necessary to do her School Based Assessment (S.B.A). Introduction This School Based Assessment (S.B.A) will reveal if the female students are performing better than the male students in my school. The researcher chose this topic as she feels male students spend more time socializing rather than do school work and hopes to understand how and why this is so. Statement of Problem This survey in on: “Are female students performing better than male students in my school?” Reason for Selecting Area of Research ...
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...Social Studies School Based Assessment Outline School Based Assessment. This is an evaluation conducted by the school while the social studies course is still in process. Candidates are required to conduct a guided research and document their findings your teacher/ other appropriate persons will guide you throughout the process. You MUST do your own work; it should not be done for you. Punishment will be administered to candidates in which it can be proven that they have plagiarized other persons work. The First draft must be handed in to your teacher NO later than the third week in November this will be corrected and returned. FINAL drafts must be handed in by the FIRST week in February. **WARNING** Do NOT hand in your drafts a few days before the deadline and pressure your teacher to mark and return it immediately to suit your needs. You will not be accommodated except in extraordinary circumstances, speak with your teacher if there is a problem. Be disciplined, MEET YOUR DEADLINES. If you hand in a research that your teacher has never seen before, this may be to your disadvantage and you may not get the marks you deserve. Tasks The S.B.A. is marked out of 40. This values 20% of the total marks. Your report must be between 1000 – 1200 words in length, this should include appropriate graphs and charts . Each task is allotted a certain number of marks. If you miss (omit) a task, the marks cannot be allotted (the...
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...income. .Method of Data Collection Questionnaires were issued to thirty sex workers, seventeen (17) female and thirteen (13) male to collect data for this research paper. Participants were chosen at random by the researcher. The researcher gave the sex workers ten (10) minutes to answer and return the questionnaires. METHOD OF INVESTIGATION In order to collect data for the survey, the researcher decided to use printed questionnaires. The researcher chose the method of collecting data for a number of reasons: * It requires little time to be completed * It can be done at the convenience of the respondents * It guarantees confidentiality since respondents are not required to attach their names. COPY OF QUESTIONNAIRE Social Studies Questionnaire This survey is being carried out in...
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...Social Studies School based assessment Name: Horace Campbell School: Kingston College Candidate #: Teacher: Ms. Groves Territory: Jamaica Centre#: Table of contents Acknowledgement 3 Introduction 4 Statement of Problem 5 Reason for Selecting the Area of Research 6 Method of Investigation 7 Data Collection Instrument 8 Procedure for Data Collection 9 Presentation of Data 10-12 Analysis and Interpretation of Data 13 Recommendation and Implementation Strategy 14 Bibliography 15 Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge my cousin Andre Thompson for assisting me with this research and also all the persons who participated in the questionnaire. Introduction This is a research into the factors that contribute to the constant trend of poverty in West Kingston along with some of the factors. Here is a brief history on the West Kingston Area: The area of West Kingston is predominantly residential neighborhood in Jamaica’s Capital Kington. This area has reputation of being one of Kingston’s most violent and poverty stricken areas. In this area there is the largest public cemetery in the English-speaking Caribbean - the May Pen Cemetery, the two largest maternity and public hospitals in the English-speaking Caribbean - the Victoria Jubilee and Kingston Public hospitals; the Blood Bank; the largest market in the English-speaking Caribbean - the Coronation Market, and also 99 per cent...
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...CHAPTER ONE Topic: Why are there so many children living in single parent households? Rationale The community in which the research was done is one of a moderate size. It only has approximately five hundred and fifty (550) people living there. It is located in the Duhaney Park, St. Andrew. The investigator became aware of the situation by way of observations and investigations. The investigator has been living in the community for the past sixteen (16) years and had noticed that most of the children in the community were brought up in a single parent family. This may pose a problem as children could get accustomed to liking one parent more than the other or maybe they just simply don't know their other parents. Being aware of this, the investigator decided to do some research within his community on single parent families. He also investigated some of the possible reasons why the other parent was not around. Method of Investigation The method of investigation used by the investigator was questionnaires. Questionnaires are not only easy to use, but they allow the persons being investigated to remain anonymous as they are not required to write their names. Questionnaires are also efficient in the collection and analysis of data. 1 CHAPTER TWO Design of Study The research was conducted over a 2 week period which the respondents had a maximum of three days to complete the questionnaire and return them to...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Strayer University – Online Professor Michael Powers January 21, 2011 Abstract Today’s entrepreneurs can learn how to profit and be social responsibility by studying the leading entrepreneurs of the past. In this paper we will learn Jack Welch and Dirk Mueller-Remus leadership style, and major business principles for a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. Also their major business principles for a social-responsibility oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary is goal to make a positive impact on society (people, families, ecology, or similar) while providing a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. This paper will also show what three resources or tools available through the Small Business Administration and SCORE would be the most useful. Analyze and describe the founding leader(s), leadership style, and major business principles of a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. The founding profit oriented leader is Jack Welch. He had a successful strategic plan with an aggressive approach to we maximize the opportunity. He will confidently say that the bottom line for most if not all entrepreneurs are to take care...
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...Subject: Stowham Community Centre Proposal Finance | Introduction: In this report I will be telling you about the 3 options for the Stowham Community Centre and what I will recommend as the best choice and that will be more beneficial financially and socially. The beneficial part is that you will be saving more money and is cheapest, social part is that it’s for a certain age group where they will get along and can come and do some learning and meeting new people and be able to build up confidence and get involved into new activities. | Findings: In my Findings I have found that each option e.g. Café, Karts and Arts have a lot of sales but overall café has the most of a total of £25.066 which will be very profitable. In the monthly running up costs café and karts have the most expenses for the running costs whereas the Arts have a very cheap running costs with a total of £11.790 so when they are going through all the building and the stock also the insurance and wages and all the other bills will be very cheap because they will have profit of £5.000 every month because of their monthly income whereas café and Karts they will only have a profit of 1 to 2 thousand pound. The most successful to be in the set-up cost will be the Arts again because they have cheap expenses for the Equipment and stock whereas the Café and Karts are a lot more expensive to be paying for the cheapest Building work would be the Café but for the total for the set-up cost will be the Café. ...
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...Influencing America?Discussions Question 2, Can Social Entrepreneurship Succeed? Week 2Discussions Question 1, International Trade or Stay Close to Home?Discussions Question 2, Industrialized Versus DevelopingWeek 3Discussions Question 1, Socially Responsible?Discussions Question 2, Is it a Matter of Ethics?Week 4Discussions Question 1, Ethical Considerations Discussions Question 2, A Small Business and Social MediaWeek 5Discussions Question 1, Communication: In a Promotional WayDiscussions Question 2, Blogs, Podcasts, and Social MediaWeek 6Discussions Question 1, What? Me!? A Manager?Discussions Question 2, Workers and Robots: Fair and Equitable?Week 7Discussions Question 1, Effects of Information Technology on ManagementDiscussions Question 2, Financial Controls BUSN 115 Week 1 to 7 Discussion Question Purchase here http://www.proprofs.com/training/course/?title=busn-115-week-1-to-7-discussion-question_1 Product Description • BUSN 115 Discussion QuestionWeek 1Discussions Question 1, In What Manner is Wal-Mart Influencing America?Discussions Question 2, Can Social Entrepreneurship Succeed? Week 2Discussions Question 1, International Trade or Stay Close to Home?Discussions Question 2, Industrialized Versus DevelopingWeek 3Discussions Question 1, Socially Responsible?Discussions Question 2, Is it a Matter of Ethics?Week 4Discussions Question 1, Ethical Considerations Discussions Question 2, A Small Business and Social MediaWeek 5Discussions Question 1, Communication:...
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...Making a profit is the cornerstone to all business ventures started. Business is defined as “all profit-seeking activates and enterprises that provide goods and services necessary to an economic system.” (Boone & Kurtz, 2011) The majority of people entering the business world are looking to gain profits, and rewards for their physical and intellectual labor. Developing ones leadership style is key in starting any business; choosing the wrong style one can stunt the growth of their business. “Leadership styles are not something to be tried on like so many suits, to see which fits. Rather, they should be adapted to the particular demands of the situation, the particular requirements of the people involved and the particular challenges facing the organization.” (Murray, 2009) The text examines three main types of leadership styles, Leadership being defined as the “ability to direct or inspire people to attain organizational goals.” (Boone & Kurtz, 2011) Autocratic leadership, Democratic leadership, and Free-rein leadership are the three main forms of leadership styles discussed. Autocratic leaders make all the decisions about the business, without consulting others. In Contrast a Democratic leader will involve others in the business decision making. At the other end of the spectrum entirely is a free-rein leader who gives minimal input, and allows management to make all the business decisions. As with anything each style has its pro’s and con’s. The co-founder...
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...Effect of Industries in social Life Report Vishal Mandaviya (PM002213) Masters in Habitat Management, CEPT University CONTENTS Introduction3 What is Gamthal4 Overview4 Location………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Demography……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5 History………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Social Aspects……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Objective 6 Methodology 6 Existing Infrastructure7 Social Infrastructure ……………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………7 Road & transportation ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 Water Supply & Drainage …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Industrial Infrastructure……………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Effect of Industries in Social life………….……………………………………………………………………………………………10 Industries in Gamthal ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Effect of Industries on social life………………………………………………………………………………………………11 SWOT analysis...………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 Conclusions………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13 References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 Endnotes….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………15 Introduction The study was commissioned by CEPT University to analyze Gamthal in Ahmedabad include Demography, Social Life, Economy, Administration and infrastructure. The team of five students went to various Gamthal in...
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...What do we mean at DePaul by a “Socially Responsible Leader”? DePaul’s Vision Twenty12 calls for a special focus on “developing socially-responsible leaders and engaged alumni.” This goal is central to the full expression and realization of our Catholic, Vincentian and urban mission, which challenges us to maintain vigilant attention to the common good and to the sacred dignity of all people, especially the poor and marginalized. The development of socially responsible leaders in today’s complex, global, and ever-changing world requires a commitment to students’ holistic and integrated learning by a community of faculty, staff and University partners who accompany and mentor students on their developmental path. Moreover, it requires that the University community itself embody what it seeks to develop in its students, thus acting as an effective mentoring community and environment. At DePaul, five broad categories have emerged as central to our understanding of socially responsible leadership: 1. Self-Understanding & Personal Integrity Socially responsible leaders have achieved a sense of self-authorship or personal agency. They critically assess and actively discern how their personal gifts, talents, resources, and abilities might best contribute to the broader human community. They articulate and live with a sense of authenticity, purpose, and ethical integrity. They maintain an appreciation for the transcendent dimension of human life, and seek ongoing personal...
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...was how we should not get stressed out about classes and what we should take. She said that is what Onestop and our advisors are there for, to help us when we need it. Which Path Do I Take? Exploring The “Fit” of Different Majors The speaker at this event was from the Career Center and his name was Chris Hegg. He talked about RIASEC which is a personality model, and it is an interest inventory tool designed to help match your interests and skills with similar careers. RIASEC stands for realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. The people who are realistic are the “doers”. They like to fix things like cars or like to hunt; they like things that are hands on. The people who are investigative are the thinkers. They like to ask a lot of questions and they may like school because they get to learn new things. Artistic people are the creators they like music, instruments, art, they like to create different things. Social people are the helpers they like to volunteer, or help a...
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...salesman is known to be used in conveying social matter on the American society. Death of a salesman shows how the American dream can be harder to achieve than some people expect it to be. Arthur uses time to his advantage as he uses flashbacks to at one point have a conversation with his dead brother of a past conversation that he is showing other people as he is playing cards. They are used to show his brothers success to try and push him in the right direction for willies sake. His sons also go back to see their past and recollect. Gripping with a influence of the past is a theme that all literature has become in modern literature and of Death of a Salesman ("What Literary Devices Does Miller Use In "Death Of A Salesman"?", 2015). The American Dream The American dream in my eyes is for wealth and happiness and many people would have the same dream and thoughts of what the American dream is and how they would precede it. Willy is always looking for a way to fix his sons after their failures and he uses the aspect of foreshadowing to try and show that even with the best of wises there is not always a way to fix problems for people that do not want to be fixed or that cannot fix themselves. Biff and willy also have a different look on the American dream and because he cannot live up to his father standards and expectations it contributes to the breakdown of the family ("Arthur Miller'S Death Of A Salesman Has Been Used To Convey Social Commentary", 2015). Imagination While...
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...January 30, 2009 The End of Solitude By William Deresiewicz What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's 100 a day, or about one every 10 waking minutes, morning...
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...Penney, (2013) defines “The Biopsychosocial Model” as an approach or method that guides and helps to understand individual’s biological, psychological and social aspects, for example emotions, behaviours and thoughts. Therefore the importance of understanding human health and illness will aid nurses with knowledge of how to provide holistic care. It is a health care model that deals with the clinical care and practical guidance to the patient. Biopsychosocial model show the importance for practitioners to recognise the factors that contribute to biologically, psychologically and socially of different individuals and showing confidence in understanding different aspects of life to encourage elderly client to show their personality, which aids them and keep them in control at different stages of life HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS. (D) Physical Factors The skeletal system of an individual goes through major changes because the musculoskeletal system response slows down due to aging affecting movement and posture, for example loss of calcium from the bone. Banks et al. (2009) stated that mineral density will decrease after menopause. Therefore at this life stage of women they are prone of hip fracture. Ageing affects bones making them weaker and less dense which make them likely to fracture easily, Individuals might find it difficult to lift things and the less dense the bones the less flexible movement becomes because of the weakness...
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