...Collecting Data BSHS/405 July 27, 2015 Collecting Data Collecting data in human services is a way of gathering information on a client to learn more about them and eventually use this information to help them receive services. Collecting data for intake and assessment forms is a very important process. It is important because this is the first initial contact the helper and applicant have. The helper will need to verify the problem, set up an appointment, and gather information that ensure the applicant’s case is handled properly. Initial Contact The first initial contact an applicant has with the agency is over the phone. A new referral or inquiry form is to be used with an applicant when calling for the first time (Summers, 2012). When taking the call from an applicant good communication skills should be utilized. The helper should learn what the problem is and then set up an intake appointment where the applicant will be seen for an interview and evaluation (Summers, 2012). Remember making a person feel at ease is important as this may be their first time asking for help. Filling Out Forms Filling out the forms for the applicant is an important process. There are steps to fill out the form for the applicant. Each step is important as it tells the initial information about the client before they have their first interview. Properly filled out forms allow for the helping process to be started without delays due to errors. Filling out the chief complaint section...
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...Importance of Collecting Data BSHS 405 September 14, 2015 Paula Krasselt Importance of Collecting Data The first line of contact, in most human service centers, are intake evaluators on the phone or in person. The intake evaluator is the employee or volunteer that gives the first impression to the client of the entire organization. It is a primary role in a case manager’s position. The ability to collect a potential client’s information in an accurate, thorough, yet efficient way is important to ensure that the client’s case is handled competently from the onset of contact. Often, clients are in a crisis. Time is of the essence to ease their stress levels and help them regain control of their lives and environment (Summers, 2012). Communication, not just verbal, but written communication and listening skills are important for the position of an intake evaluator. The skilled evaluator can quickly establish a good rapport with the client and draw them out. Asking leading and open questions will allow the client to give the information that is important to them while also giving a clear picture of the current situation. Asking questions in the correct way will allow us to know why the client is calling today. Asking the same question differently is an excellent way to verify information that has been relayed by the client and will often pull more information from the client. Observation skills, along with empathy can also aid a worker in hearing the tone and distress...
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...Collecting Data Intervention, Direct Service Delivery & Case Management BSHS 405 Stephany Jones Nyiema Carter, Psy D June 8, 2015 Although some may view data collection as tedious, it is an essential component in Human Services as it is the overall purpose of doing an intake and ensures the quality of information. Proper data collection also establishes accountability within the agency, and ensures a successful hand-off from the intake to the assessment process. This paper will detail the importance of appropriate data collections for the intake and assessment forms. The basic premise of the intake process is data collection, and yet the act of collecting data can become tedious. If this is perhaps the thousandth time a human services worker might’ve completed the same form without variation, they may not fully comprehend that what goes in during the intake process, affects what comes out of the helping process. In some cases, intake dictates outcome. In most agencies, the intake and assessment is conducted by two separate Human Services workers; they could sit next two each other or have never interacted whatsoever. Either way, appropriate data collection and notation, becomes as essential during case hand-off as a baton passed between relay racers. Even the simplest aspects of a client’s issue, can be essential during assessment (Summers, 2011). Pertinent elements including small details, if included on the referral...
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...Methods of Collecting Job Analysis Data A variety of methods are used to collect information about jobs. None of them, however, is perfect. In actual practice, therefore, a combination of several methods is used for obtaining job analysis data. These are discussed below. Job performance In this method the job analyst actually performs the job in question. The analyst, thus, receives first hand experience of contextual factors on the job including physical hazards, social demands, emotional pressures and mental requirements. This method is useful for jobs that can be easily learned. It is not suitable for jobs that are hazardous (e.g., fire fighters) or for jobs that require extensive training (e.g., doctors, pharmacists). Personal observation The analyst observes the worker(s) doing the job. The tasks performed, the pace at which activities are done, the working conditions, etc., are observed during a complete work cycle. During observation, certain precautions should be taken The analyst must observe average workers during average conditions. The analyst should observe without getting directly involved in the job. The analyst must make note of the specific job needs and not the behaviors specific to particular workers. The analyst must make sure that he obtains a proper sample for generalization. This method allows for a deep understanding of job duties. It is appropriate for manual, short period job activities. On the negative side, the methods fail to take note of the mental...
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...HOW TO MAKE AT LEAST $100,000 Or More A Year As A Used and Rare Book Seller On The Internet BY YOUR NAME BY YOUR NAME Web Site: http://www.your-web-site-here.com Email: yourname@your-web-site-here.com ( Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission. Excerpts may be used with proper credit and contact information (address, telephone number or website URL of the publisher) No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage and/or financial loss sustained to persons or property as a matter of the use of this report. While every effort has been made to ensure reliability of the information within, the liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use, misuse or abuse of the operation of any methods, strategies, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein is the sole responsibility of the reader. The reader is encouraged to seek competent legal and accounting advice before engaging in any business activity. Introduction Not only am I going to show you step-by-step how to make $100,000 each year with your own business on the Internet I'm going to share with you exactly how I do it! Now, you can copy exactly what I'm doing- dealing in out-of-print and...
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...Silver Morgan Rare Coins When starting an e-commerce business there are some basic items that need to be in place before the site is operational. An examination will be conducted on a simulated business model “Silver Morgan Rare Coins”. A closer look will be conducted on the breakdown of the infrastructure, marketing and communication, privacy and security, ethics, and B2B implications. All key points are necessary in order to have a solid structured business. Business Infrastructure Creation. When creating a web site, design is critical and needs to be appealing and focused on the product line that is being offered. The web design for this business will be outsourced to a professional web developer. The main screen will contain items on sale or any special deals going on and, in addition, the colors of the site will correlate with the coins themselves. The site will be designed in such a manner in which the loading speed will average one to one and a half seconds. Studies have shown that the presentation and ease of maneuverability within a site is critical, and the deciding factor whether or not the consumer likes the site is made within the first few second of visiting. Acquisition. The procurement of merchandise for the site will be done through E-Bay, Craig’s List, and Wholesale distributors. The acquisition will be completed in bulk in order to seize a better price per coin. The coins themselves will have to be certified PCGS or NGC, which are the two main...
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...during one's leisure time. Hobbies can include: collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, and playing sports, along with many more examples. By continually participating in a particular hobby, one can acquire substantial skill and knowledge in that area. Having a hobby helps to make you a more interesting person and gives you something fascinating to talk about with others. It can also help you to avoid feeling bored and often provides the opportunity to meet new people with similar interests. Learning something new is always good for keeping the mind active. This will also make you a more interesting person than a person who is addicted to Facebook, TV or doing other time wasting and unhealthy tasks. There are hundreds of hobbies a person can choose from. Some of them are: collecting, outdoor, sports, creative hobbies etc. Collecting is a practice with a very old cultural history. The collecting hobby is a modern descendant of the "cabinet of curiosities" which was common among scholars with the means and opportunities to acquire unusual items from the 16th century onwards. The involvement of larger numbers of people in collecting activities comes with the prosperity and increased leisure for some in the later 19th century in industrial countries. That is when collecting such items as antique china, furniture and decorative items from oriental countries becomes established. The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing...
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...How to play Subway Surfers? An ‘endless running’ game (the player continually moves forward without stopping until the player hits an object), Subways Surfers is one of the most popular games worldwide. The main objective of the game is to collect coins and various other rewards while running through an endless game world. The players of the game takes the roles of a young hooligan who is caught while applying graffiti to a metro railway, starts running down the railway tracks to escape the inspector and his dog. Trains and other obstacles which come in the way of the player can be avoided by swiping left or right or by jumping or by rolling. Surfboards act as a sort of temporary invincibility but two respective hits while riding one surfboard will end the surfboard run. Players can increase their score multiplier by completing the missions given. Completion of these missions rewards players with bonuses. The game ends when the player collides with an obstacle and is caught by the inspector and his dog. To help the player on his or her run, there are 4 special kinds of power ups – Jetpacks, Super Sneakers, Coin Magnet and Double Multiplier. Each of these power ups can be upgraded to last longer with the help of the coins collected. Okay, now that we know what the basic are, let’s look at the main menu of the game. This is the main menu of the game. The contents of the main menu are as follows – 1. Mission – This button shows the current mission you need to complete...
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...evaluating outcomes by performing a pre-test, audit on the charts, and a post-test along with another audit. Statistics Used Descriptive statistics are used in the workplace to describe and share specific data to get information, but not draw any conclusions. According to Bennett, Briggs, and Triola (2009), "descriptive statistics deals with describing raw data in the form of graphics and sample statistics" (p. 7). Some examples of descriptive study currently in place in a variety of areas are emergency room wait times, the number of homeless veterans being cared for and numbers of readmissions in the hospital. Wait times for the emergency room are averaged through the computer system from the time the patient checks into the time the patient is seen. The information collected is the age and ethnicity of the individual, and the amount of time spent waiting for care. This information is used within the hospital in improve patient care and patient satisfaction. Homeless Veterans are an immensely vulnerable population in the local community. The data collected on these patients are their ethnicity, age, social status, completed education and involvement of local resources. This information is used to improve outreach programs in the community for the veteran population. Data is also collected...
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...UNIT #5 DISCUSSION DQ #1: Data collection is one of the most challenging steps that prevent learners from completing their dissertation. What challenges do you foresee in collecting your data? What are some strategies you’ll deploy to overcome these challenges? a) Challenges in collecting data Reliability and validity In data collection, reliability and validity of the data are important considerations, which a researcher should pay attention to. Reliability, in this case, can be described as the degree to which the data collection process is consistent. On the other hand, validity arises when variables measure what they were intended to measure. And, this, usually, happens when the data collection process has been reliable. Data collection form Construction of a data collection form is one of the important considerations that every researcher should consider, before the inception of the data collection process. Designing the form requires that a researcher pay a lot of attention to all the established variables, from the topic. If all variables in the research are not covered in the form, it might not be possible to get complete information to enable well informed conclusions from the data analysis. The wording of the form is also very important. If the form is not carefully worded, it might bias the participants’ responses. The questions should also be impersonal to encourage open and honest responses. In the absence of this, it is likely that the full story would...
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...should pursue the Blue Ocean Strategy of becoming a nationwide data collection network. According to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) website they have 211,264 total vehicles as of 2014. The U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the USPS has the largest civilian fleet of vehicles in the world. The USPS also has delivers to every address in the United States- this requires an extensive delivery network. The USPS should exploit their vehicle fleet and extensive delivery routes to outfit their vehicles with sensors to become a data collection network. According to an article in Popular Science, the Postal Service’s fleet of vehicles could be equipped “with an array of cheap sensors, mail trucks could wireless deliver real time information on weather, pollutants, traffic, road conditions, and even locate gaps in cell phone coverage and television signals” (Dillow, 2010). The data collected could have homeland security implications as well, as noted in Popular Science, by sensors being able to identify chemical-biological threats as well as radiological threats. Threats are always prevalent to an organization, especially one that is trying to implement a new business opportunity to their existing business. The USPS is unique because they have threats that come from the private sector and threats that come from Congress in the public sector. The threats from the private sector come from other data collection companies who already have the technology and infrastructure...
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...opportunity, systematically collecting and analyzing information, and recommending actions. The five step marketing research approach is a way of making decisions in marketing. The five steps include Defining the problem, developing the research plan, collecting relevant information, developing findings, and taking marketing actions. Constraints in a decision are the restrictions placed on potential solutions to a problem such as limitations on time and money. The difference between primary and secondary data is that primary data are facts and figures that are newly collected for the project, while secondary data are facts and figures that have previously been recorded. Some advantages of secondary data are the time savings, and the low cost. disadvantages of secondary data include that the secondary data may be out of date and the categories might not be right for the researchers project. The difference between observational and questionnaire data are that observational data can be collected by mechanical, personal, or neuromarketing methods, while questionnaire data are facts and figures that are obtained by asking people. Personal Interview provides the greatest flexibility. The difference between a panel and experiment is that a panel is a sample of consumers or stores from which researches take a series of measurements, while an experiment obtains data by manipulating factors under controlled conditions to test cause and effect. Data mining differs from traditional...
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...Statistics in Business Danielle Devlin QNT/351 December 23, 2013 Mourad Tighiouart Statistics in Business Statistics is another way of saying gathered numerical information. Lind, Marchal, and Wathen, state that statistics is “the science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions” (2011). There are currently two types of statistics, descriptive and inferential. Descriptive statistics is described by Lind, Marchal, and Wathen as “methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way” (2011). Inferential statistics is described by Lind, Marchal, and Wathen as, “The methods used to estimate a property of a population on the basis of a sample” (2011). With the two types of statistics there are also four levels of statistics. These levels are called statistical data measurement. Each level of measurement allows data to be classified. These measurements are: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Nominal level of measurement as qualitative variables is only allowed to be classified and counted. An example of nominal level of measurement would be gender, because there is no natural order to the outcomes. The next level of measurement is ordinal. This level is used when rating or ranking date. An example of ordinal level of measurement would be how a survey rates a product or service as “Good”, “Better”, or “Best”. Next is the interval level of measurement. This...
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...to test and try, or to probe. Together they form a noun describing a careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to establish facts or principles. Research is basically based on primary and secondary sources. In primary source we collected original data via research "instruments" (surveys, interviews, questionnaires, "focus groups," etc.) to produce new knowledge on a particular topic. In addition to primary sources and original instruments another source is secondary data. The secondary sources are used to provide an overview of existing published knowledge on a topic and possible current debates about the topic. It also defines how the new knowledge described in a paper differs from what is already known. Definition: “The process of finding solutions to a problem after a thorough study and analysis” (Sekran, 2006) “Systematic inquiry that provides information to guide decision” (Cooper & Schindler, 2001) “Studious study of a subject that is intended to discover new facts or test new ideas, the activity of finding information about something that one is interested in or need to know about” Research is a process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to answer questions. Research Process: The research process is the step-by-step procedure of developing one's research and research paper. Writing a research paper frequently requires continuous, and sometimes extensive, re-evaluation and revision...
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...Purpose To provide the customer with the ability to efficiently order their food themselves Information Processes -Customer needs to go to plasma screen -Customers selects food -Customers pay -etc Information Technology Data information Participants Touch screen card reader OS Food options Payment options A cruise liner requires a system that tracks passengers who have either embarked or disembarked from the ship Information System Title Cruise Liner information tracking system Environment A cruise liner Purpose To efficiently track passengers who have either embarked or disembarked from the ship Information Processes -Passengers will have a designated member card used to identify them individually -Collects data from user swiping card -Passengers will swipe their cards to sign out of the cruise once their cruise has ended -information will be stored in company servers Information Technology Data Information Participants Card readers Cards Barriers Card reading software Identity Cruise Passengers Location Time scanned Components of an Information System Purpose What it does, how is it used? Information processes Collecting, organising, analysing, storing and retrieving, transmitting and receiving, processing, displaying System environment Where the system...
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