...Linking Assessment and Instruction for Students with Disabilities Final Exam Study Guide Information of each of these topics can be found in the notes, textbook, class handouts, and presentation handouts Introduction to Assessment and the Law – Chapter 1 Define and identify examples of formative and summative assessment * Formative assessment * On going evaluation * Less formal * Used to adjust and monitor progress * Summative assessment * Evaluation at the end of a unit/ year * More formal * Assess student competency with a unit Identify and apply the 6 principles of IDEA * Procedural Due Process * Zero Reject * To include all students * Nondiscriminatory * To determine whether a student has a disability * The nature of special education and related services * Appropriate Education * To provide benefit and progress toward outcomes by following the IDEA process * Least restrictive environment * To ensure IEP outcomes by ensuring access to general education curriculum, extracurricular, and other activities * Parent and Student Participation Identify the impact of ESEA/NCLB on schools * Accountablility fro results * School safety * Parental choice * Teacher quality * Scientific based methods of teaching evidence based practices * Local flexibility * Standards-based education * Current * performance ...
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...goods and services are distributed within society. ____ 2. Choosing not to attend a concert so that you can study for your exam is an example of a tradeoff. ____ 3. Efficiency means everyone in the economy should receive an equal share of the goods and services produced. ____ 4. Equality refers to how the pie is divided, and efficiency refers to the size of the economic pie. ____ 5. Government policies that improve equality usually increase efficiency at the same time. ____ 6. An individual deciding how to allocate her limited time is dealing with both scarcity and trade-offs. ____ 7. Tuition is the single-largest cost of attending college for most students. ____ 8. A marginal change is a small incremental adjustment to an existing plan of action. ____ 9. If the average cost of transporting a passenger on the train from Chicago to St. Louis is $75, it would be irrational for the railroad to allow any passenger to ride for less than $75. ____ 10. A rational decisionmaker takes an action if and only if the marginal cost exceeds the marginal benefit. ____ 11. A tax on gasoline is an incentive that encourages people to drive smaller more fuel-efficient cars. ____ 12. Trade allows each person to specialize in the activities he or she does best, thus increasing each individual's productivity. ____ 13. Trade with any nation can be mutually beneficial. ____ 14. A market economy cannot produce a socially desirable outcome because individuals are motivated by their own selfish...
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...Many disciplines define evidence- based practices as treatments or approaches that have been found effective through replicated research. Specifically, questions are posed, followed by the creation of a hypothesis, which is then tested. If a particular hypothesis is tested on several different occasions with different participants ( in this case students with autism) and the results are favorable, then a tentative decision is made that the particular treatment in question has an evidence base. “ Ultimately, such research should be able to demonstrate that there is a causal relationship between an educational intervention and immediate or long- term changes that occur in development, behavior, social relationships, and/ or normative life circumstances” ( National Research Council, 2001, p. 193). Testing a hypothesis is carried out by using a particular research design. Generally, research designs can be categorized into two broad categories: singlesubject designs ( also known as within- subject or single- case designs) and group designs ( also known as between- subject or experimental designs). Experimental designs may include matched- subject designs, control...
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...Introduction: Individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities often have deficits in social skills development, especially in the areas of social interactions and engagement. However, there is limited research on social skills intervention within this population and the current body of research on developmental/intellectual disabilities is focused on children. Having challenges in social interaction and engagement can lead to difficulties in adulthood, such as struggling to understand others, misinterpreting what another person said or not responding appropriately (Myles, Coffin Owens, Yantes, 2014). This can result in the individual feeling lonely and frustrated. Walton & Ingersoll (2013) only found 17 studies that had a broad...
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...Case Study: Database Development ALEXANDRA DESINORD PROFESSOR OSAMA MORAD CIS 515- STRAT PLAN FOR DBASE SYSTEMS Week 7 Assignment February 29, 2016 The more companies base their large elements of their business strategy around data, the need for IT team and executives with deep understanding of data and analytics is growing rapidly. Data changes all of the time. That is why it is essential that companies should try to stay up to par with the ever changing technology so that they can ensure that the system can withstand anything that comes about. Down below I will discuss briefly the various aspects of the SLDC and the tasks that can be completed to help solve certain common problems that exist from within. Customer data management is not high on many organizations' lists of priorities until it has to be. The term used in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering to describe a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system is called Systems development life cycle (SDLC). This term is also referred to as the application development life-cycle, which is a term used in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering to describe a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. The task of optimizing the software development process has faced many obstacles. The main obstacle is a lack of accurate and complete data on the development process. The use of the Personal...
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...Every company wants to get close to its customers, but wishing doesn't make it so. New research identifies four stages of customer focus and maps the organizational changes necessary to navigate from one stage to the next. The Quest for ustomer Focus by Rahjay Gulati and James B. Oldroyd For Continental Airlines, the joumey began when the company was emerging from bankruptcy and needed to know more about the profitability of its individual customers. One ofthe first things it uncovered was a service mess that was costing the airline millions of dollars every year. Continental took a systematic look at how passengers were treated when a plane was significantly delayed, when they were bumped from a flight, or during some other unfortunate event. What it found was that compensation was offered on an arbitrary basis by the gate agent, and, somehow, the lowest value customers were, on average, receiving the highest compensation. Worse, some passengers were finding ways to be doubly compensated; a customer who was bumped from a fiight might first approach a gate agent, pick up a voucher for a free fiight, and then minutes later telephone the airline and ask for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW M |ORE AND MORE CEOs are hoping a stronger customer focus will be the antidote to escalating commoditization pressures. But as the frustrations of myriad companies can attest, getting closer to customers is not just a matter of installing a better CRM system or of finding a more effective...
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...ONE OF THE NATION’S LEADING INNOVATORS IN DELIVERING EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN SERVICES TURNING LIVES 1 Yolo County, CA: EBP brings measureable, positive outcomes 2 King County, WA builds new system for Mental Health RX: the PRIME 4 Assessments.com selected to direct $1.2M statewide juvenile project in CA 4 News in Brief 5 Spotlight on ADC staff: Brian Richart is new ADC President 6 EBP – Recent Research: Exploring the Black Box of Community Supervision 8 Upcoming Events Winter 2010 | QUArterLY neWSLetter CURRENT NEWS AND trenDS AROUND supervision, and accurately and objectively identified higher risk juveniles who most need and can most benefit from rehabilitative treatment. Monthly statistics tell the story. In April 2007, the department was managing a caseload of 400 juveniles with a staff of 10 supervising field officers and an outpatient treatment budget of $120,000. Today, the total caseload is down to about 280, as the department has done a better job keeping very low risk youth out of the system altogether. Of those youth who do enter the system, some 150 low risk youth are supervised by 1 1/2 officers with diversion programs and minimal supervision, while the remaining officers are managing the 130 moderate to high risk juveniles (a 38% reduction in individual case load size) and providing individualized treatment through programs such as FFT (Functional Family Therapy) and T4C (Thinking for a Change)– cognitive behavioral programs...
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...Behavioural change theories From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Behavioural change theories are attempts to explain why behaviours change. These theories cite environmental, personal, and behavioural characteristics as the major factors in behavioural determination. In recent years, there has been increased interest in the application of these theories in the areas of health, education, criminology, energy and international development with the hope that understanding behavioural change will improve the services offered in these areas. Contents • 1 General theories and models o 1.1 Self-efficacy o 1.2 Learning theories/behaviour analytic theories of change o 1.3 Social learning/social cognitive theory o 1.4 Theory of reasoned action o 1.5 Theory of planned behaviour o 1.6 Transtheoretical/stages of change model o 1.7 Health action process approach o 1.8 Education o 1.9 Criminology o 1.10 Energy • 2 Objections General theories and models Each behavioural change theory or model focuses on different factors in attempting to explain behavioural change. Of the many that exist, the most prevalent are the learning theories, Social Cognitive Theory, Theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behaviour, Transtheoretical Model and the Health Action Process Approach. Research has also been conducted regarding specific elements of these theories, especially elements like self-efficacy that are common to several of the theories. Self-efficacy Self-efficacy is an individual's...
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...seriously damaged. She ultimately became a victim of cyberbullying which lead Viviana to commit suicide. There must be an end put to this. The reason for this study is to identify the threats and the environment that exists in our local high schools providing a dangerous basis for committing cyberbullying. By conducting a survey we intend to find our weak spots and therefore create solutions that will prevent cyberbullying in the future. Just the mere researching into this negative phenomena serves to promote awareness and rally the humane among us to do all that is in our power to prevent and expose cyberbullying. A Brief History of Bullying Bullying is defined as an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children and teenagers that involve a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids and teenagers who...
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...MOTIVATION, BEHAVIOR, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE WORKPLACE I. INTRODUCTION Motivation is a subject that has long interested researchers and practitioners seeking to understand human behavior and performance. Over the course of the 20th century and into the new millennium, scholars have developed sweeping theories and have amassed large bodies of applied research investigating motivation across a variety of settings. Motivation has been studied in schools, the workplace, government, and athletic competitions, to name but a few contexts. It has been studied at the level of the individual, the group, and the organization. Some motivation researchers have employed cognitive models, which emphasize the role of thought processes in determining motivation and behavior, while other researchers have adopted non-cognitive paradigms, which focus on factors such as personality traits, affective states, and environmental determinants. This paper focuses specifically on research about motivation and behavior in the workplace. It discusses motivation theory, which has broad applicability across contexts, as well as the empirical research conducted in workplace contexts. In reviewing this literature, particular emphasis is placed on research about motivation and behavior as they relate to individual performance. A central aim of motivation research is to explicate the complex relationships that exist among motivation, behavior, and performance—such knowledge is critical for managers tasked with...
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...Charles Kurose September 2013 MOTIVATION, BEHAVIOR, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE WORKPLACE I. INTRODUCTION Motivation is a subject that has long interested researchers and practitioners seeking to understand human behavior and performance. Over the course of the 20th century and into the new millennium, scholars have developed sweeping theories and have amassed large bodies of applied research investigating motivation across a variety of settings. Motivation has been studied in schools, the workplace, government, and athletic competitions, to name but a few contexts. It has been studied at the level of the individual, the group, and the organization. Some motivation researchers have employed cognitive models, which emphasize the role of thought processes in determining motivation and behavior, while other researchers have adopted non-cognitive paradigms, which focus on factors such as personality traits, affective states, and environmental determinants. This paper focuses specifically on research about motivation and behavior in the workplace. It discusses motivation theory, which has broad applicability across contexts, as well as the empirical research conducted in workplace contexts. In reviewing this literature, particular emphasis is placed on research about motivation and behavior as they relate to individual performance. A central aim of motivation research is to explicate the complex relationships that exist among motivation, behavior, and performance—such knowledge is critical...
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...Applying Organizational Behavior When Motivating Employees ADM 521 Applied Administration Concepts Dr. Michael Provitera 2/26/2014 Chauvaunia Goodman 1. Introduction Employee motivation can be regarded as one of the key practices for an organization to build long-term sustainability in any respective business industry. In relation to the recent phenomenon, the performance of employees significantly depends upon a number of factors including employee motivation, employee satisfaction, performance appraisal, compensation, training and development (T&D) along with adequate security of job role and organizational structure among other factors (Muogbo, 2013). However, the specific area of this study is focused on employee motivation, which tends to highly influence employee performance within an organization. In relation to the rapidly growing global business environment, marketers have been widely witnessed to implement a number of strategic measures in order to keep the workforce more optimistic with regard to their specific roles and responsibilities within the organization. In this regard, Organizational Behavior (OB) has long been observed to play an essential role for the entrepreneurs to develop strong workforce in accordance with the vision and postulated business goals (Tishman et al., 2012). Emphasising the notion of OB to play as an essential role in employee motivation, the primary objective of this report is to critically analyse the practice of OB by...
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...RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSE NIH GUIDE, Volume 25, Number 37, November 1, 1996 PA NUMBER: PA-97-005 P.T. 34, AA Keywords: Drugs/Drug Abuse National Institute on Drug Abuse PURPOSE The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is firmly committed to support of research in the area of adolescent drug abuse. The purpose of this program announcement (PA) is to encourage further investigations in this area, particularly with regard to gaps in current knowledge. HEALTHY PEOPLE 2000 The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the health promotion and disease prevention objectives of "Healthy People 2000," a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. This PA, Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, is related to the priority area of alcohol and other drugs. Potential applicants may obtain a copy of "Healthy People 2000" (Full Report: Stock No. 017-001-00474-0 or Summary Report: Stock No. 017-001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (telephone 202-512-1800). ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applications...
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...based on their self-reports. (Nunnally & Bernstein, 1994, p. 383) Rynes, Colbert, and Brown (2002) presented the following statement to 959 members of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): “Surveys that directly ask employees how important pay is to them are likely to overestimate pay’s true importance in actual decisions” (p. 158). If our interpretation (and that of Rynes et al.) of the research literature is accurate, then the correct true-false answer to the above statement is “false.” In other words, people are more likely to underreport than to overreport the importance of pay as a motivational factor in most situations. Put another way, research suggests that pay is much more important in people’s actual choices and behaviors...
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...continuous improvement as one of the central TQM doctrines. For employees, a significant aim of TQM is the broadening of work responsibilities. The adoption of TQM requires employees to reconceptualize the boundaries of their jobs, reshape their attitudes toward quality, and engage in new behaviors. In essence, TQM blurs the boundary between previously defined in-role and extra-role behavior such that what were considered discretionary functional activities now become part of an individual's job, which he or she is expected to fulfill in a TQM environment. Waldman (1994) argued that work responsibilities in a quality culture would include "accomplishing tasks and taking initiatives above and beyond the call of duty, and sharing information with and helping co-workers" (p. 515). In terms of the key principles of TQM, employees are required to have a customer-focused orientation and develop attitudes and behaviors that reflect a commitment to customer service; a pervasive emphasis on collaboration and cooperative efforts between individuals and groups within organizations (Stone-- Romero & Stone, 1998), requiring an individual to develop a collectivist orientation and to engage in behaviors for the benefit of the group; and a continuous improvement orientation emphasizing a proactive approach to preventing problems and a search for better ways of doing things (Dean & Bowen, 1994; Lawler, 1994). Empirical evidence also suggests that the success of TQM...
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