...Without Data, It’s Only an Opinion: A School Development Plan Sara Torres Grand Canyon University: EDA 577 August 4, 2014 Abstract One of the biggest challenge that schools are facing is how to increase the amount of parent involvement. Research has shown that parental involvement increases student achievement, however increasing parent involvement means building stronger parent teacher relationships. The major factors that might prevent parents from participating in their children’s school is their beliefs of the importance of getting involved and their perception of what they think the school and their child believes of them getting involved. This paper presents the development of goals and activities that Public School 153 designed to increase parent engagement within the school. School leaders in the twenty first century have an increased amount of responsibilities that they need to be able to do deal with on a daily basis to manage an effective school system. School leaders must be able to assume accountability and be able to effectively communicate continuous changes within the school system to all stakeholders. Leaders must take the lead in setting clear goals, establishing plans to achieve those goals, using data to monitor progress regularly and adjusting plans accordingly for the success of the school (Guskey, 2007). They need to be able to collaborate and empower stakeholders to support and assist in implementing the school’s vision. The purpose of this...
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...(Benchmark Assessment) Heritage Assessment Paper Michelle U. Ghitkammanee Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V March 8, 2015 Maintaining, Protecting and Restoring Health among Filipino American Culture The health maintenance among the Filipino Americans characterized by bodily awareness of the sign and symptoms related to their chronic illnesses. Three major chronic illnesses that the majority of the Filipino Americans have are diabetes, hypertension and cerebrovascular accident or stroke. Diet posed a significant challenge because Filipino Americans believed that the importance of food maintains social relationships and camaraderie. Food is important to Filipino culture it symbolizes sharing and blessings to the family. In the Filipino American Culture the importance of balance or “timbang” is a centralized concept of health and balance is desired in all social relationships. Filipino Americans affirms that being healthy shows the balance in the body and being ill is the result of imbalances in the body. Filipino Americans have a strong belief that health and illness are interrelated with social affairs. Health, happiness and sociality are all linked together to build up wellness. Filipino Americans that were interviewed states that imbalances of the body due to being worried and overworked are also seen in building up stress that causes illnesses. Filipino Americans are closed knit family ties. Expressive in nature, they expressed the sense of responsibility for maintaining...
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...Heritage Assessment Kyler G. Merrill Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 01/18/2015 Heritage Assessment Tool Today in society there are many diverse culture and ethnic backgrounds, each with their own habits, traditions, preferences, and of these includes health. Different needs of the whole person should be evaluated in detail. This paper will discuss results from three different cultures through the interviewing of them using the Heritage Assessment Tool. It will also review, compare, and address health traditions between the cultures as well as identify common health traditions based on cultural heritage. The purpose is to evaluate and discuss how families subscribe to these traditions/practices, address health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration according to the assessment. Why Heritage Assessment? One method for determining an individuals or groups needs is to use some type of tool in order to complete the assessment. Over 20 years ago an assessment tool was used in order to promote public health and awareness ("Heritage Assessment Tool | Researchomatic," n.d.). The name later became known as “Healthy People 2000 and 2010” and 2020 is soon to come ("Heritage Assessment Tool | Researchomatic," n.d.). The tool contains twenty-nine different and varying questions to obtain detail of birth, siblings, immigration, religion, school, ethnic activities/cuisine and other topics. The usefulness of applying a heritage assessment is because...
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...Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment When clinically assessing patients in care settings, it is paramount for health professionals to elicit pertinent information that could be crucial for delivery of care. This is particularly important in the United States because the increasing diversity in racial and ethnic composition of the population has presented cultural challenges that care givers must navigate to provide culturally competent service. Cultural competence during delivery of care requires sensitivity to the cultural, social, and linguistic needs of patients (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, 2002). As a consequence, care providers need cultural assessment tools that will enable them to elicit sensitive racial and ethnic information. The Heritage Assessment Tool provides care givers with such a tool. This paper examines the application of this tool on three different cultures and discusses its usefulness in planning for the maintenance, protection, and restoration of the health of diverse cultures. Three families of Mexican American, European American, and African American heritages were assessed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. The tool consists of 29 questions that determine how deeply an individual identifies with a certain tradition and answers to the questions provide cues on patients’ health traditions. The tool is based on the understanding that all patients are unique cultural beings, with personal health...
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...Performance measures are essential approaches to identifying best practices regarding nonprofit organizations as it helps the organization expand their services abroad. Performances measurements are vital tools for nonprofit organizations to utilize particularly when assessing accountability, funding, or advancing the goals or mission of the organization (Beamon & Balcik, 2008). Benchmarking and the Means-Based (The Balanced Scorecard) Performance Assessment are two current measures used by nonprofit organizations (Renz, 2010). Benchmark Performance Measure, is identified as one of the most primary implements used to evaluate nonprofit organizations today (Renz, 2010). Benchmarking permits nonprofit organizations to determine their baseline...
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...An Anatomy of the Crude Oil Pricing System Bassam Fattouh1 WPM 40 January 2011 1 Bassam Fattouh is the Director of the Oil and Middle East Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Research Fellow at St Antony‟s College, Oxford University; and Professor of Finance and Management at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I would like to express my gratitude to Argus for supplying me with much of the data that underlie this research. I would also like to thank Platts for providing me with the data for Figure 21 and CME Group for providing me with the data for Figure 13. The paper has benefited greatly from the helpful comments of Robert Mabro and Christopher Allsopp and many commentators who preferred to remain anonymous but whose comments provided a major source of information for this study. The paper also benefited from the comments received in seminars at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK, ENI, Milan and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford. Finally, I would like to thank those individuals who have given their time for face-to-face and/or phone interviews and have been willing to share their views and expertise. Any remaining errors are my own. 1 The contents of this paper are the authors’ sole responsibility. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies or any of its members. Copyright © 2011 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (Registered Charity, No. 286084) ...
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...Beyond Benchmarks: Estimate Your Application Maintenance Costs Using Internal Data by Phil Murphy EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Applications professionals struggle to explain the cost of their applications' ongoing operations and maintenance to their business counterparts, who commonly perceive the costs as excessive. The business perceives these costs as excessive in part because of the way applications professionals deliver the information — as a large and indecipherable lump-sum budget item. Applications professionals who want to avoid blind mandates to cut costs by "X" percent must break out application costs in a way that business people can analyze and digest. When they do, they give the business an opportunity to make smart, surgical reductions to costs and shift underutilized resources to the work that is most important to the organization, increasing overall agility and innovation while reducing wasteful spending habits. IN SEARCH OF "INDUSTRY STANDARD" BENCHMARK COMPARISON FIGURES When business and IT executives push back on the costs of applications, they raise a common set of questions such as, "Are we spending too much?"; "What do other companies spend for the same services?"; and "How do we measure up against 'industry standard' measures and benchmarks?" The erroneous assumption is that "industry standards" exist for virtually every category of IT spending. The term "industry standard" implies that an industry such as manufacturing or insurance agrees to use a certain...
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...In order to move the corporation towards its strategic goal of “building a profitable franchise by providing relationship banking combined with a high level of service to its customers”, Citi Bank California has recently incorporated a variety of non-financial measurements into its performance evaluation system. Specifically, the problem needs to be addressed in the case is whether James should receive a “below par” or “par” overall rating for the fiscal year 1996 as a result of his “below par” rating in customer satisfaction. My recommendation is to give James a “par” rating, and supporting evidences are given as below. First of all, the newly adopted performance scorecard consists of six different types of measures including financial measures, strategy implementation, customer satisfaction, control measures, people, and standards. Among these measurements, the first four are objective measurements determined by related objective data collected during the year, and the latter two are subjective measurements which are substantially depending on the personal opinions of Lisa, direct supervisor of branch managers including James. According to the four quarterly performance evaluation over the year, James has done an excellent job in five out of six measurements other than customer satisfaction. Therefore, after taking the importance of improving customer satisfaction into account, an overall rating of “par” would be objective enough to highlight the corporation’s strategic goal...
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...INTRODUCTION The recent moves of the government to gradually deregulate the Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants(POL) sector in India as part of the agenda of ‘neo-liberal reform’ has generated discontent among the people. In the run-up to complete deregulation, there are instances of increase in the domestic price of POL products that are proportionately more than the rise in their international prices. In the most recent instance (of 13th September, 2012), the diesel price was raised by Rs.5 per litre at one go, even without any rise in international prices. These steps are being taken to eliminate the government subsidy on these products in a step-by-step manner. Deregulation of the POL sector is bound to eliminate the direct or indirect subsidies completely. And reduction in subsidy, according to the government, is the need of the hour in order to reduce the fiscal deficit as proportion to GDP. Deregulation is also necessitated in the current neo-liberal environment because if the government keeps subsidizing the public sector owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) like Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, then the private companies like Reliance and others would not get a ‘level playing field’ and they would not be able to compete in price. In this way, the present subsidy regime indirectly restricts the private players from entering the oil marketing sector. Hence, if the priorities of the government in power are the reduction of subsidies and ensuring...
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...Abstract An internship, no matter in what kind of educational setting must encompass observation, inquiry, hands-on experiences, and a built relationship between the mentor and mentee. When this relationship is built, the administrative team can come together to create a vision that the school can and will reach. The day to day operations of the school will operate as normal and the professional staff puts students first. The school can look at data and as a school become transparent in the goals that have been set. When these are at the forefront of critical decision making, the school will then be able to make strides towards success. Introduction An internship is one that allows a principal candidate to get ready for the world of supervision and educational leadership. It allows for experiences in the field of leadership and allows the candidate to get a hands-on, real world experience. During my internship, I have had the experience of really getting to see the day to day duties of my principal as well as the instructional, visionary, collaborative, and supervision side. Betty, J. M. (2007), goes on to say, “Collaboration must be an expectation that is supported both vocally and administratively by the principal who wants collaboration to be a commonplace occurrence in schools. Communication and visibility are crucial to the process. The principal who wishes collaboration to occur must be seen and heard discussing collaboration in the school...
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...procedures and helps them to understand their industry better which leads to innovative thinking. It also helps them to identify what changes are essential to improve performance. Some benefits of benchmarking are a better understanding of customers and competitors, reduction in waste, quality problems and reworking, quicker awareness of important innovations, a stronger reputation within the market, and increased profits and sales turnover. Benchmarking is usually done with top performing companies in both the service and the business sectors. Many of these companies are Fortune 500 companies such as Ford, Nissan, or Motorola. However, others include smaller businesses that are only a fraction of the size. These firms looking to benchmark all recognize that success and advancement come from a clear understanding of how the business is doing, not just against last year’s performance, but against the best they can measure. There are two parties in the benchmarking process. The initiator is the firm that initiates contact and studies another company in an attempt to improve their own processes. The target firm, or the benchmarking...
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...Causes of Erratic Oil Price Fluctuations on a Global Scale Crude oil is a significant commodity that has a far-reaching global economic impact. This is mostly because it is used as a primary raw product for extracting various forms of energy, such as diesel, petrol, and kerosene. The products extracted from crude oil are used in the various facets of human life. For instance, diesel is a crucial component used in manufacturing facilities (Mankiw 115-133). There are constant fluctuations in oil prices, making the price of a barrel of crude oil vary on a minute-by-minute scale. Fluctuations in fuel prices can be a primary factor in the cost of transportation and manufacturing to name but a few. Therefore, fluctuations in the price of crude oil have constant effects on the global economy. These effects have made many investors and citizens alike to be wary of any fluctuations (Butcher 45-77). Oil price fluctuations are bad for the global economy. High crude oil prices contribute to a higher cost of living, thereby affecting national and global economic performance. The question then begs; what is the cause of the erratic crude oil price fluctuations in global scale? There are various reasons as to why there are frequent fluctuations in crude oil prices. In particular, just crude oil production itself can cause major fluctuations in crude oil prices. For instance, reduced production would create shortage of crude oil in the market, and following microeconomics principles;...
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...Has Asian Industrialization had a Negative Impact on the Global Marketplace? An Investigation into the Effect of Industrialization of Select Markets and their Impact on the Global Marketplace. Has Asian Industrialization had a Negative Impact on the Global Marketplace? The global marketplace has seen a large shift in buying power in recent years. Former world leaders have seen their influence on the marketplace dwindle as industrialization begins to take hold in countries previously not seen as traditional powerhouses. Worldwide, prices have risen at a rate never before seen. With a burgeoning population of middle class workers, Asia as a whole, and China and India specifically, have fueled this pricing explosion. Research shows that the development of these former 3rd world countries is responsible for a large increase in global pricing due to the high demand for steel, oil, and agricultural products. One major industry which has been affected by this shift is the steel industry. The demand for steel along with the decreased supply has caused prices to increase by 25 to 45 percent in the US market. (Van Der Schans, 2007). Several factors have coincided to deal a damaging blow to the US steel market. Firstly, China and India have become major players in the steel industry, accounting for the consumption of over 25 percent of the worldwide steel supply. Cooney found that, “China has become both the world’s largest steelmaker and steel consumer.” (2006). China’s...
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...Tracee Finley Business Economics GM 545 Spring Semester 2012 Tfinley73@yahoo.com Everyone’s Gasoline Problem Since September 2010, average monthly gas prices have risen 45 cents to $3.21 (February month-to-date), an increase of 16.4%. But during the past four years, there have been several periods where gas prices increased by even more substantial amounts. In 2008, gas prices rose 94 cents — or 33.4% — to $4.11 between February 2008 and June 2008. Gas prices also increased 63 cents from February to May 2006, 86 cents from February to May 2007, and 94 cents from December 2008 to June 2009. (http://www.edmunds.com/about/press/current-gas-price-hikes-dont-measure-up-to-recent-history-says-edmundscom.html). Prices fluctuate at the pump because of problems in the Middle East, natural disasters and government regulation. Crude oil also plays an important role in gas prices. Crude oil is a natural substance found underground that is used to produce fuel for cars, trucks, airplanes, boats and trains. As of February 2012, crude oil prices made up 72% of the price of gasoline. (http://useconomy.about.com). For every $1 increase in the price of a barrel of crude oil, U.S. consumers are likely to pay 2-1/2 more cents for a gallon of gasoline. The prices that we pay at the pump are determined by supply and demand. For example, if demand rises and supply falls, prices increase, and just the opposite when supply increases and demand decreases, prices will decrease. Being an...
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...CONFIDENTIAL Employee Performance Evaluation Employee's Name _______________________________________Title __________________ Office/Dept. _________________________Date of Evaluation __________________________ PERFORMANCE DEFINITIONS *3 2 1 STEP I COMMENDABLE ACCEPTABLE MARGINAL Performs beyond specified requirements within job description Meets the specified requirements of job description Corrective action and/or release from job may be required EVALUATE THE ELEMENTS OF PERFORMANCE. Evaluate all factors indicated below by checking the appropriate space and commenting where applicable. *3 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 2 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 1 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ QUALITY - Performs work thoroughly effectively accurately QUANTITY - Completes the necessary amount of work Is able to prioritize tasks KNOWLEDGE - Is capable in handling all phases and details within job specifications HUMAN RELATIONS - Is willing to work with others Is able to work with others COMMUNICATION SKILLS - Effectively presents written ideas and information to others JUDGEMENT - Is able to make decisions based on sound reasoning JOB DEPENDABILITY - Is honest and reliable in carrying out instructions _____ Observes Personnel Policies _____ Complies with established...
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