...1 Assignment 2 Research Report (40%) Due Friday 15th April 2011 The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to gathering, analysing and reporting research data. The focus is on examining Piaget’s concepts in a practical way. It links to your achievement of the Unit Outcomes 3 and 4: 3 Collect, analyse and interpret data with respect to the domains of development. 4 Develop academic essay and report writing skills The assignment consists of clear steps which are outlined below: Gathering the data (revisit Chapter 2 for information on ethics, observation and note taking) Collect about 20 small items that can be sorted or categorised in multiple ways e.g. shells, screws / nails, buttons, pictures from a shopping catalogue or magazine etc. Select two people of different ages. A larger discrepancy (a primary school aged child and an adult; or a preschooler and an adolescent for example) will be easier for you but you may need just to work with people you have easy access to. Explain that you need to ask people of different ages to do a short activity for a university assignment. It should take a maximum of about 20 minutes. Gain their consent to participate in your study. Make sure you submit signed consent forms (see link under “Assessments”) from the participants. It is important that you learn normal research protocol, and this demands that, irrespective of whether or not the person is a family member, you would need to have them sign the consent form...
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...Adolescent times of storm and stress revised Hanne Op de Beeck Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) Hanne.Opdebeeck@law.kuleuven.be ABSTRACT This paper focuses on two issues regarding theories of adolescence. The first one, which has been a topic of discussion for a long time, concerns whether adolescence should be regarded as either an uncomplicated or a turbulent period. In the latter case, it is aspired in this paper to find out which factors account for such turbulence. The second issue, which arose more recently, concerns the continually longer postponement of the transition to adulthood. These topics are empirically addressed using the data of the second Flemish Youth Monitor. Analyses indicate that the loss of childhood innocence causes adolescents to have a more realistic evaluation of live, self and relationships. For adolescents whose ties with parents and their school environment are less tight, this can cause heightened stress in terms of lowered selfesteem and negative future prospects. These stresses, however, cannot account for the rise in delinquent activity during this developmental stage, for the analyses indicate that adolescent delinquency rather results from a more outgoing lifestyle. Finally, the idea of a prolongation of ‘storm and stress’ cannot be supported by the data, since it is found that most youth find their balance back around age 22. 1. STORM AND STRESS? The idea of adolescence being a period of ‘storm and stress’ – a perspective which was introduced...
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...Access Assessment Feedback Sheet Student name | Paul-Gerald Ombassa | Tutor name | Bruce Neagus | Course and course code | ACCESS to Higher Education | Group | A | Unit number & title | QU007486 Application of Numbers | Assessment title & number | Assignment 1 of 1 | | Submission (Number) | | (1) First submission | (2) Resubmission if original work did not meet criteria | (3) Referral | Issue Date | 21st Sep 2015 | 02-11-15 | | Deadline | W/C 30th Nov 2015 | W/C 14th Dec 2015 | | Submitted | 02-12-15 | | | Returned | 09-12-15 | | | Resubmission(Delete as required) | No | N/A | | Learner Comments on Assessment Brief | | Internal Verification /Modification (If sampled)IV/Moderators Name: _____________________________ Signature: ___________________________Date:____________ | IV Grade Awarded: | | Please note: Information in relation to assessment including tests, assignments and grades given by staff of South Essex College is interim and subject to change. The official assessment, results and grades are those published by the Awarding Body e.g. City & Guilds, BTEC, OCN and University. Students are advised to await these official results and grades before making any decisions or taking action dependent upon this information e.g. University place decisions. Feedback Form | Unit | Application of Numbers | Learning Outcomes | Assessment Criteria | Assessor Comments | AC AchievedY/N | 1 Know how to...
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...Andrew Assesment Parma lee elementary school has a diverse population of students from different backgrounds. It has Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, Native Americans among others. However, the majority of the students have a Hispanic background. The students in this school range from 3-5 years (preschool) and 6 to12 (school Age), and l noticed an equal distribution of boys and girls. Given the large population of Hispanics, some of the preschoolers with this ethnic background could not express themselves in English. However, they were helped by their peers during the screening. The screening incorporated Height and weight, blood pressure, checking hearing abilities and dental status. The preschool stage of development according to Erikson is initiative vs. Guilt. The goal of preschoolers is to acquire independence as they perform learned tasks. In other words being able undertake and accomplish tasks without interferences from care givers or their teachers. During this stage, preschoolers are learning new experiences for instance learning how to read and write, putting up puzzles, getting on a weighing scale by themselves among others. Giving them an opportunity to perform these tasks creates a sense of independence, and thus fulfilling their physical abilities successfully. Failure for preschoolers to achieve learned tasks creates a feeling of frustration leading to negative behaviors. Such behaviors include throwing objects, yelling, crying, and thus hesitating...
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...Introduction: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd university is an upcoming university. With that being said, it is still in the process of improvement and setting roots to become one of the strongest universities out here. One of the ways of improvement is to have a good dining system. Sadly, the location of the university is quite far from the city and no near restaurants to make it easier for the girls to go out and have a proper meal. So, it’s a struggle for the girls of PMU to find alternative restaurants than the one that is currently provided on campus. In this study, it shows how opening Chili’s at PMU can be beneficial. Students can be more focused and productive due to having a proper meal. Chili’s is a highly known restaurant, especially in Saudi. Having chili’s on campus would make their lives easier and would look make them happier to see that the university is listening to what they wants and coming up with solutions to make all students happy. My expectation about this study is to help PMU improve their system and show them how this study can be beneficial for the university not only for the students, but also can be profitable. Literature Review During my research, I found a similar case in the University of Western Sydney when they open a restaurant in Parramatta campus. They claim that opening a restaurant on campus, it is a perfect place for corporate lunches or catching up with friends. In our case, this shows that opening a Chili’s could be very beneficial...
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...Clark 406 Irving St. Dallas, TX 75015-406 Dear Ms. Clark: It was a pleasure to meet with you and explain our company’s services. As I have mentioned in our meeting our company is experienced in providing transportation services when you are travelling, whether it is for business or pleasure. Our services are: providing parking facilities and lists of parking prices, direction guidelines such as maps and GPS, varieties of vehicles whether it is personal or for groups, door to door services, chauffeured pickup and drop-off from and to BWI, Reagan national or Dulles international airports, providing personal drivers on request, customized personal and group tour arrangements, and dedicated transportation staffing whether it is small or large group. I am confident that we can provide you the kind of service you seek. Our services are guaranteed to your satisfaction. J&G transportation Co. service lists include providing shuttle service from place to place, providing muscle car for different age groups, and different kinds of services. All our services are guaranteed to the extent of refunding your money in full if you are not satisfied with the services provided by our company. We would be happy to provide you with reasonable first time discounts and I will include our list of discounted prices in the package I will send you. As a manager of our company for more than a decade, I have been dedicated in providing the best quality transportation service for our clients...
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...1. Purpose of The Document A feasibility study is a study that assesses the viability of an idea. It seeks to identify potential problems and to determine whether an idea will work. It provides details on how a business can succeed, and it serves as a tool for creating a good business plan. A feasibility study is important because the information it gathers and presents helps people list everything they need to make a business work, develop marketing strategies to persuade an investor or bank that the business is a worthwhile investment and identify business-related problems and solutions. The project feasibility may form the basis of an important investment decision and in order to serve this objective, the document/study covers various aspects of project concept development, start-up, and production, finance and business management. 2. Project Profile The project is about starting a Day Care Center for infants and children of age up to 5. The proposed plan is to offer programs ranging from Infant Care for infants of more than 6 months of age to Kindergarten for children of age up to 5 years. 2.1 Project Brief The study provides information regarding investment opportunity for setting up a Day Care Center in Comilla City. However, such a project could also be feasible for other cities of Bangladesh but initial market research/survey would be required to identify its need. 2.2 Opportunity Rationale Day Care Center is the place where learning and fun become one...
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...take place in groups according to age, but you will also try to integrate different age groups for part of each activities, so that children experience being with those either younger or older than themselves, So the focus will be to enable them to explore, develop, learn and create in a way that is right for them. Children aren’t the only ones who can do creative activities so for elderly in care home; you firstly have to group them seated in a circle near a table for ease of passing items, especially for residents with limited mobility. You will then introduce yourself to them before you Begin by introducing the activity you plan to do with them, therefore you will make sure you get them involved in some type of creative activity to help them to accomplishment a sense of joy. Objectives in this activity for Children and elderly as what will get out of it as a professional you have to support children's to development their hand muscle by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their hand. You have to careful control their small muscles in the hands and fingers. Encourage them to use tools such as rolling pins or cookie cutters and to Use scissors correctly to develop fine motor skills. You have to Provide children and elderly a safe space to explore, and help them begin to recognize and handle their own feelings are an important ways for to promote children social and emotional development. As you already group children...
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...Executive Summary: Our business plan is to open up and maintain an academy in the sports industry, under the name Touchline Football Academy or TFA, specialized in coaching and training members in the sport of soccer. Our activities will be based in a sports facility in the heart of Montreal at the Soccerplexe whereby the collaboration agreement with that facility dictates the permission of our use of their soccer fields in return to a variable fee; which is a predetermined percentage of our total revenues. The academy will also hold an office located on First avenue in Lachine, which will be the headquarter of our operations as to management and conferencing, as well as a liaison with parent and business acquaintances that needs addressing in a professional fashion. Our academy will reap its revenues mainly from memberships sold to members on a monthly basis. Other revenues coming in are from sponsorships, as well as the sales of kits and equipment. Our targeted customers are males, residing in Montreal, and in the ages between 5 to 22+ years old. A mass marketing campaign will be conducted as a dedicated effort during the initiation of the business, in an attempt to acquire the maximum exposure and market outreach possible. This marketing strategy will be costly and require a significant budget; however, it will give us access to the wide potential market in this industry, as shown by the demographics research (elaborated in detail within this booklet). General Project...
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...The two sections of date that I picked for this assignment is gender for the qualitative data and intrinsic for quantitative data. The data selected will be discussed and analysis until a conclusion is made. For qualitative data I picked gender. I put gender because I felt that is was the best option of the two. The gender I picked was female. I picked female because I’m female. The quantitative data I picked was Intrinsic. I picked intrinsic because Of what the definition said it was which was belonging naturally. A qualitative variable is a variable without a sense of order. A qualitative variable is measured on a nominal scale. A nominal scale is a scale with no order but has some numeric values are nominal. An example nominal scale would be the data showed on the excel sheet for this assignment where male and female are showed as, 1-male and 2-female. Quantitative variables are numerical. An example of quantitative variables would be the number of people in a town which is a measurable attribute. Population is a quantitative variable. An easy way to remember the two variables is when you think of qualitative variables think or something being categorical and when you think of quantitative think of numerical. Qualitative variable The data above use qualitative variable. As stated before a qualitative variable is measured on a nominal scale. A nominal scale is a scale with no order but has some numeric values. An example nominal scale would be the data showed...
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...CHRISTIAN SHARPLES Curriculum Vitae | Address: 6 Church Road, Newcastle, NE1 1NE Tel: 01234 567890 Mobile: 0777 777 777 Email: another@hotmail.com Date of Birth: 13/10/1996 Personal I am a determined individual that can work effectively in a team and has a burning passion for sport. I work with sheer determination and achieve whatever I set my mind to which will contribute to the success of when working in a team. My ambition is to gain a degree in Sports Coaching and pursue a career within the game. I am seeking to combine my qualifications and overall experience and challenge myself with different roles within the area of sports for example: Rugby. I greatly enjoy socialising with friends and spending time with family. I also enjoy travelling and going to the cinema. I have a keen interest in sports especially Rugby. I enjoy keeping healthy and going to the gym. I have been playing Rugby for 3 years and represent the district of West Yorkshire and have made my senior first debut. I have a part- time job at a local restaurant giving me the opportunity to meet people of all backgrounds and improve my inter-personal skills in particular, tact and diplomacy. Work History 2015 – I currently work in a restaurant part time as a waiter. On a daily basis I have a number of duties that I complete, including: * Seating customers * Taking customer food and drink orders * Serving customers their meals * Collecting customers...
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...and globalization. It is possible to make a statement that in the age of turbulence, if such reality is handled by an individual in a proper manner, one wins. In order to understand the core reason of success in one organisation and lack of success in another one, it is essential to refer to the flow of large-scale and effective change efforts. In accordance with the classification, offered by Kotter and Cohen's in The Heart of Change, there are eight steps, incorporated into the change. They are the following: 1. Creating the sense of urgency in order to motivate smart people to tell other participants of the process that here is a need to go and to change the things; 2. Pulling together a guiding team, which is powerful enough for guiding a big change. 3. Creating simple, clear and uplifting visions and the setting the strategies. 4. Introducing the vision through heartfelt and simple messages, which are addressed to the target audience through multiple channels in such manner that people start joining the process of making a change; 5. Empowering individuals by removing limitations to the vision; 6. In order provide a momentum- developing and launching into the practice the short-term wins; 7. Maintaining the momentum in such way that the wave...
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...Leading Change Leaders who successfully transform a business do 8 things right and they do them in order. 8 Steps for Transformative Change: 1. Establish a sense of Urgency “Make status quo more dangerous than launching into the unknown” a. Examine market & competitive realities b. Identify & discuss crises, potential crises or major opportunities 2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition a. Assemble a group with enough power to lead change b. Encourage the group together as a team (H.P.T – 5 Dysfunctions of a Team) 3. Create a Vision a. Create a vision to help direct change effort b. Develop strategies for achieving that vision 4. Communicating the Vision a. Use every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision & strategies b. Teaching new behaviours by the example of the guiding coalition (team) 5. Empowering Others to Act on the Vision a. Get rid of obstacles to change b. Changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision c. Encourage risk taking and non-traditional ideas, activities and actions “If it feels comfortable – you aren’t doing anything different or challenging yourself enough” 6. Planning for & Creating Short-Term Wins a. Planning for visible performance improvements b. Creating those improvements c. Recognizing & rewarding employees involved in the improvements 7. Consolidating Improvements & Produce More Change a. Using increased credibility to change systems, structures and policies that don’t fit the vision ...
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...uncertainty, and ever changing. It’s divided into three sections. The first two chapters discuss the reasons behind the failure of more than 100 companies of making themselves better competitors. The author discusses the reasons behind the failure of most organizations even though they throw money and effort to win, and how executives and leaders can turn the thinking processes and behavior of large groups around. Many organizations are failing because they follow the philosophy “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. The author calls companies to embrace transformations from the old strategy of micro-managing, constant strategizing, downsizing, and new cost-cutting approaches to the twenty-first century strategy of leading change. The author talks about how managers and leaders are quite different, and explains that manager is trained to think in a risk-limiting manner. The next section discusses Kotter’s Eight Stage Change Process that provides a detailed framework to guide leaders for change. The eight stage process are: (1) Establishing a sense of urgency, (2) Creating a guiding coalition, (3) Developing a vision and strategy, (4) Communicating the change vision, (5) Empowering broad-base action, (6) Generating short-term wins, (7) Consolidating gains and producing more change,...
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...programs for performance management. How do we align employees to the strategy? 1. Create Strategic Awareness Communicate Communicate Communicate 2. Align Personal Goals Personal Scorecard Make Strategy Everyone’s Job 3. Provide Necessary Skills Strategic Job Families Strategic Readiness 4. Align Personal Incentives Variable pay Team based Communicate “seven times seven different ways” to make strategy everyone’s job Personal relevance brings the strategy to life Sustained communication uses different channels to get the message across • Leadership meetings • CEO random visits to employees • Dear Colleague Quarterly Letter in Mellon News • Learning lunches & informal discussions • Intranet • Working groups facilitated by HR • Staff briefings Source: Presented by Jack Klinck, Vice Chairman, Mellon Europe at BSCol European Summit, June 2005 4 VW do Brasil CEO demonstrates commitment to using the strategy map and scorecard as his strategy management system Mr. Thomas Schmall, CEO of Volkswagen do Brasil addressing a management meeting. VW do Brasil creates a robot “Giga” as the brand for the new strategy execution system. GIGA congratulates a visitor to the VWB plant about his understanding of...
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