...DMACC has a strict policy on academic misconduct, such as plagiarism, cheating and academic dishonesty. If you are caught doing any of these things, you will be punished. There are five sanctions that could happen. The first sanction is the instructor may change your grade in the class or possibly fail you for any portion of the course. The second sanction can be imposed if the student accepts responsibility for the violation. The student could be found responsible by the College Judicial Hearing Board. The third sanction is the College Judicial Hearing Board determine the change in the grade. The new grade could be lower, same or higher than the original grade. The instructor might have to submit the change of grade form, and if the instructor...
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...only based on their merit in exams. Bias in marking may occur due to various reasons. Some of the most significant reasons are race, gender and personal knowledge of the student. This system has been in practice in many universities across the world. The same principles are also being applied to coursework which forms a large part of students’ cumulative assessment. Anonymous marking is not only helpful to the students but also to the stakeholders and examiners since it prevents them from accusations of bias and bullying. Universities and institutes that use this system issue random identification codes to candidates prior to examinations or simply use the student’s number which appears in the student’s identification cards. While this policy may be time consuming, it is more preferable since it prevents possible cases of conscious or unconscious bias. And, more importantly, it creates satisfaction among students and upholds the integrity of examiners. Therefore, Universities needs to implement this system to ensure fair and honest marking practices. From a series of studies conducted in the 1990s, it was proven that bias in marking may occur due to various reasons. The main reasons were found to be knowledge of the student’s ability, race or gender. Where the student’s identity is known to the examiner, bias in marking is almost inevitable. However, the concept of anonymous marking may not be applicable in some areas such as oral assessments. The effect of introduction...
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...With a large number of students in a class, most of the students cannot concentrate because some might be making unnecessary noise and movements. The aforementioned scenarios will result to the destruction of a class. I am writing to propose unique, effective, yet fair ways to promote discipline and proper classroom behavior and the possible actions that can be taken to ensure unruly behavior is minimized in a large class. I came up with operative solutions and attainable actions to the aforementioned situations. THE PROBLEM In every educational institution, discipline is very important. Every class should have a proper atmosphere to attain knowledge and to enable the students focus on their schooling. Discipline is essential to an academic growth and class’s harmony and success. Without discipline, especially in a Communication class of fifty students, each individual is prone to disobedience, violence, and failure. Inculcating discipline in classes will help students focus better on their studies. It will also help the teachers concentrate better in class discussions since students will be paying attention and will be giving respect to their teachers. Also, if discipline is imposed among the students, there...
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...Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30-3:45 pm Mundelein 620 Lake Shore Campus Dr. Vincent Mahler Coffey 327 (773) 508-3067 E-mail: vmahler@luc.edu Office Hours: TTH: 10:00-11:15 am, M: 5:30-6:45 pm, and by appointment This course begins with an introduction to the comparative politics of developed democracies, focusing on political culture and attitudes; interest groups and political parties; political institutions; and public policy. We will then go on to discuss a (lively) overview of contemporary Western Europe by longtime reporter and commentator T. R. Reid. Next, we will explore political institutions, processes, behavior and policy in three major Western European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Four times, spaced throughout the semester, I will offer brief factual comparisons of Western Europe and the United States in important areas, including public policy, the economy, education, social policy, and moral issues. If time permits, the course will conclude with a brief examination of the institutions and policies of the European Union, a regional organization linking twenty-eight European countries. In an effort to enliven our discussion, at the beginning of most classes I will introduce an unusual fact, song or comedy sketch that in some way deals with Western Europe, with a particular focus on the smaller European countries. READING The required texts are Gabriel A. Almond, Russell J. Dalton, G. Bingham Powell and Kaare Strøm...
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...same way by teachers for every student. * Effectively communicate expectations to students. Policies should be clearly written and discussed. * Reward students for school punctuality and attendance. Consider recognition every quarter or for shorter time spans. If appropriate, write punctuality and attendance goals into Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) and recognize their achievement. * Monthly after school movies for punctual students Raffles for bicycles, Computer games and ice cream, pizza or popcorn parties on Fridays Raffles for watches Free tardy passes, or no tardy pens * Students who were tardy 1-3 times had to complete a postcard that was sent home to their parents. The postcard included the date and time of the tardiness, the reason for the tardiness, a corrective action the student could take to arrive to class on time in the future and the student’s signature. * Students who continued to be tardy faced progressively stricter consequences under the intervention: The student who was tardy 4-6 times received lunch detention. The student tardy 7-9 times received tasks such as cleaning desks, student tardy 10-12 times had to attend school from 3-5:30 p.m. on Fridays * “Wake up call” program * Intervention. Provide trained monitors to small groups of students. The monitors closely follow tardiness, absenteeism, behavioral referrals, and academic performance and meet with individual students each week, staying in touch with students’ family...
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...Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington DC. Keystone is continually expanding to other major cities as its business grows. OUR APPROACH Keystone’s Project Teams pair international experts with local talent to devise Global Best Practice Solutions tailored to the specific country context. This also allows us to offer a high international quality service locally. Our first and foremost goal is to craft concrete and actionable steps for our clients that deliver results. OUR STRENGTHS Expertise : Keystone draws its strength from its diverse team of international experts. The company has a select group of affiliate consultants and experts residing abroad who work on projects as required. The team is comprised of practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines, all with complementary skills, and extensive expertise. Keystone also maintains strategic links with other consulting and research institutes throughout the world. Experience : The company’s competitive...
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...What are clusters? Why are policy makers so keen to promote them? Innovation recently has become very hot topic to general public or at least it is a bit trendy to talk about it between politicians. You can’t blame where it is very arguable that we innovate more now than ever before, we definitely talk about it more. Therefore also innovation clusters have been one of the hot topics within academics, politicians and just people who are just a bit interested into innovation. But what is innovation clusters have been defining generally and what are grounds of successes, what is innovation cluster impact on innovation and economic growth is argued a lot in academic literature. “The notion of a cluster was first put forward by Alfred Marshall (1890). He used the term “industrial district to describe agglomerations of small specialised firms found in particular localities. He cited as examples the cotton industry in Lancashire and the cutlery trade in Sheffield. He explained the success of these industrial agglomerations in terms of external economies of scale, where the close proximity of large numbers of small firms generated a market for increasingly specialised services. According to Marshall (1890), agglomeration economies around three sources of collective efficiency, namely: a local pool of specialised labour, firms specialising in the intermediate stages of production and knowledge spill-overs. “(David Smith, 2010, Exploring Innovation, P 267-268). However Marshal...
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...health care and governmental policy. Specifically, the authors set out to understand how adolescents experience homelessness and how gender is factor in that experience, homeless adolescent’s perceptions of health and healthcare accessibility, and how Canadian policy influences these perceptions and experiences. Although the purpose of the research is concisely described within the “Purpose of Study and Research Question” section of the article, I found it difficult to grasp the particular subject they were leading up to in the previous sections. When discussing “Background and Significance”, the authors touch the surface on a number of points regarding gender, homelessness, and healthcare, but they fail to describe any in depth significance why those certain points are important, or how they are related to this research study. I also found it peculiar that the authors cited only one source in this section on a point that is described as being “well documented”, such as the problem of homeless adolescents having a variety of health care concerns. The literature review of this article is well organized into subcategories and the majority of it is written in language that can be easily understood by non-academics. The overall discussion of previous literature seems thorough, especially when considering the specific health risks of the homeless. I found it to be lacking in any comment of past literature focusing on how governmental policies shape the experiences of the homeless...
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...improve the writing skills you’ve acquired in your academic career to date. You will find, I believe, that having strong writing skills will be an invaluable asset to your future academic and professional careers. In the coming weeks you will complete various writing assignments, taking each of them through the stages of drafting, revising, and editing before handing them in for a grade. I will give you all assignments in writing posted to Blackboard; also I will post all reading material on Blackboard or we’ll retrieve materials through online sources; thus there are no texts to buy for this course. Requirements You will complete approximately four graded assignments over the course of this semester – comprised of the following: 1. Politics, government policy, and/or social and cultural issues. Some of you may be interested and engaged in these matters already – such matters as economic theory and policy, immigration, gun rights vs. sensible gun regulation, health care policy, veteran affairs and funding, equal pay for women, women’s access to abortion and contraception, the right wing’s current attempt to defund Planned Parenthood; the Tea Party vs. . . . ALL government at large; race issues (the Black Lives Matter movement and all that it entails, especially policing in minority communities and minority profiling); voter rights vs. draconian voter ID laws and eliminating early voting; drug policies; foreign policy (involvement/intervention vs. isolationism; military...
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...Public Administration Name Institutional Affiliation Date Public administration is both a field of practice and academic discipline whereby those practicing it implement government policy while students study the implementation and are prepared to work in the public service. Classification of public sector organizations is important to simplify the meaning of the complex phenomena and to act as a guideline to policy makers and reformers. Aspiring public administrators can therefore know exactly which avenues to explore in their career as well as what exactly entails the different departments. The Louisiana department of human services belongs to the public sector following their line of duty that deals with the delivery of services and goods by and for the government at the state and local level. To better understand the concept of public sector organizations, other example organizations include social security, national defense and urban planning departments that offer products or services to the public at a lower or no cost for their overall social and economic well being (Kernaghan, Borins, Marson, & Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2000). The different forms of public sectors include direct administrations and publicly owned corporations. Louisiana department of child and family services falls under direct administration since it is funded through taxation. The organization is characterized by no specific requirement to meet commercial success criteria and...
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...weight in relation to body height, low height for age and wasting. Such symptoms characterize children who are starved although in the USA they are rare and when they occur they are limited. The impact of hunger as seen in the United States is usually difficult to be measured. The impacts include; tiredness, irritability, frequent headaches, frequent colds and infections. The clinical objective of measuring hunger is very difficult hence alternative methods have been deployed in both the private and public sector. The alternative measures of measuring hunger are using a person’s self-report of his/her psychological or subjective experience of hunger. Researchers may not agree on any particular definition of hunger. But for the purpose of policy making and measurement hunger is defined as taking in inadequate amount of food resulting from lack of money and resources. It can also be defined as the mental or physical condition resulting from not eating due to poor economic or community resources. From the two definitions, hunger is defined as resource restricted and in most cases related to poverty and it is distinct from the premealtime hunger witnessed across the economic spectrum. Researchers in the past have associated hunger with food insecurity. Food insecurity is a much broader aspect of hunger. Families...
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...COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor, use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. The assignment header should include the Learner’s last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) justified to the left and the page number justified to the right. Keep a Photocopy or Electronic Copy of Your Assignments: You may need to re-submit assignments if your mentor has indicated that you may or must do so. Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | BTM8102-8 | Kris Iyer, PhD | | | Business Research Methodology | GreenTBTM8102-2 | | | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...Handbook. This will give you an indication of what is required at different levels. • Make sure you read the precise wording of the Q and tailor the response accordingly. • Do not write the answer with the unit convener in mind. Essay scripts are moderated by two internal (School for Policy Studies) academics and potentially one external academic examiner. Your responses will potentially need to make sense to all three. • Reference your material using the Harvard system. Check your course handbook for details. Be consistent in your referencing. This is extremely important. • Your referenced material must be relevant to the course. Find your own sources by all means but stay within the topic area. • Be careful about using internet sources. If you use them you need to demonstrate their credibility and reference accordingly. See guidelines in course handbook. • Define and describe terms. Assume the reader knows nothing and take them through the piece. This does not have to be too detailed but just a line or two setting out key terms. E.g. if you introduce New Public Management or Street Level Bureaucrats then define and describe it briefly, preferably making reference to an academic source for credibility. •...
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...Introduction In most cases, being a good corporate citizen goes hand in hand with high levels of political competence. This statement rings true when it comes to the formulation of health policies. Health executives must always consider a multitude of factors before jotting down any sort of health policies. This is because the implications resulting from implementing a health policy are quite numerous since that policy affects a lot of individuals. Seasoned executives who have mastered the skills of political competence are able to analyze factors that might crop up as a result of pushing for the implementation of a particular health policy, thus enabling them to identify potential pit falls that might pose challenges in the future. There have always been a lot of misconceptions on the topic of political competency, with most people associating this concept with actual politics. Although the issue of political competency applies largely to the field of politics, it can still be incorporated in other different dimensions. Political skill or competence is the “ability to read, understand, and exert influence and control in social situations in a way that is not seen as overt or controlling” (Ahearn, Ferris, Horchwarter, Douglas and Ammeter 2004 p.309). On the other hand, a good corporate citizen can be defined by incorporating Matten and Crane (2005) limited view of corporate citizenship which basically denotes corporate philanthropy in the local community. Although other views...
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...memo writing [pic] TASK ONE: WRITING A POLICY MEMORANDUM GUIDELINES & EVALUATION CRITERIA CONTENTS |Getting Started |2 | | | | |Writing Guidelines |4 | | | | |Evaluation Criteria for Task One |8 | I. Getting Started Steps to complete task one 1. Choose a scenario from the list provided separately 2. Choose a national mission to address 3. Write your policy memorandum 4. Make sure that your policy memorandum is consistent with the submission guidelines below 5. Submit your memo Step 1: Choose a scenario Students should write amemorandum on one of the government national missions on climate change. (Provided in the separate document) Step 2: Choose a national mission to address The national missions are listed in the separate document sent along with this. Choose any of the national missions which are a part of the government of India’s “National Action Plan on Climate Change” Your memorandum should be addressed to the government responding to the action plan your decide to choose from the document attached along. We encourage you to discuss specific features of the...
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