GRADING RUBRIC MUST BE FOLLOWED

Instructions

This assessment is in two parts. Completed both parts after you have implemented your action research plan and have collected data.

Part 1: Description of Baseline Data

In this section, provide a description of baseline data and information that you gathered and reviewed to inform the development of the study.

• Describe the population and sample from whom the data were collected, and provide a rationale for targeting the population and selecting the sample.
• Describe what instruments were used to collect data and how they were shown to be valid and reliable.
• Provide information or baseline data that you gathered through interviewing or surveying individuals, archival data collected on students or others (for example, tests or grades), observations you made related to the problem, and so on.
• Describe how data were physically collected using a step-by-step approach (a blueprint of what you did).
• Include rationale for what technology was integrated to enhance the research; this could have been via the application and/or the assessment and potential outcomes.

Part 2: Data Analysis

In this section, describe how data were analyzed and processed to generate findings in order to inform decision making and practice.

• How were data analyzed and interpreted? Did you stay true to the original design plan?
• How can findings be interpreted? Would a different action have had better results? What was unexpected?
• What can you conclude from the information/data analysis? Are your conclusions based solely on the evidence?

Resources:

Resources: Data Collection

• PRINT
• • Mertler, C. A. (2018). Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Available in the bookstore.
    • Read Chapter 5, “Collecting Data,” pages 129–169. This gives an overview of the types of data, including qualitative and quantitative approaches.
  • Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2019). Practical research: Planning and design (12th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Available in the bookstore.
    • Choose which chapter in this text best covers your own work. Choose between Chapter 6, “Descriptive Research,” pages 146–191, or Chapter 7, “Experimental, Quasi- Experimental and Ex-Post Facto Designs,” pages 192–227, or Chapter 8, “Qualitative Research Methods,” pages 228–258.
  • Hahs-Vaughn, D. L., & Yanowitz, K. L. (2009). Who is conducting teacher research? Journal of Educational Research, 102(6), 415–426.
  • Onwuegbuzie, A. J., Leech, N. L., & Collins, K. M. T. (2010). Innovative data collection strategies in qualitative research. The Qualitative Report, 15(3), 696–726.
  • Lange, J. (2014, July 6). Six ways to promote data-driven instruction in K–12 schools. Retrieved from http://www.gettingsmart.com/2014/07/6-ways-promote…
  • National Council of Teachers of English. (n.d.). Formative assessment that truly informs instruction. Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/formative…

Resources: Data Analysis

• PRINT
• • Mertler, C. A. (2018). Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Available in the bookstore.
    • Read Chapter 6, “Analyzing Data,” pages 170–216.
  • Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2019). Practical research: Planning and design (12th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Available in the bookstore.
    • Read the chapter about data analysis that best matches your data approach (qualitative or quantitative): Chapter 11, “Analyzing Quantitative Data,” pages 303–343, or Chapter 12, “Analyzing Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Data,” pages 344–371. If doing mixed methods, you will need to read both chapters.
  • University of Leicester, Student Learning Development. Presenting numerical data. Retrieved from http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/numerical-data/numerical-data
  • Teaching and Learning Research Guide.

Initial Post 1:

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Cloud computing: Cloud computing do for your company: Pay only for what you need, eliminate complex software installations, Access to enterprise-grade applications, respond to business changes quickly, try before you buy.

Benefits of Cloud Computing:

• It is accessible to all the users
• Using the cloud for applications is cost-efficient.
• Least the possibility of access failure due to non-dependency on a single machine
• Cloud provides you independence from machine access.
• URL will give you access to your infrastructure all the time. Real-time user access.
• Multiple users can access the same application and can work on it (Example – Google Doc)
• Cloud is reliable for Backup and recovery since data storage is not server specific.
• Cloud computing is the best platform to showcase your applications/software worldwide.
• Users can access your application & work on it using a single link. Flexibility to access it from anywhere makes it popular among users and service-providing industries

Benefits of Virtualization:

• Server virtualization is the top reason behind its success.IT industries setting up thousands of servers’ machines using a virtualization technique.
• Multiple applications can be installed on a single physical machine despite OS dependency.
• The setup cost is very low. Virtualization can be done on a Personal Computer. The desktop virtualization feature provides flexibility to virtualize the whole system by a single click.
• Virtual infrastructure works well with the low-speed network access
• Virtualization has reduced the cost of Hardware in the IT industry because the single server can serve as multiple machines.
• Virtualization is Plug & play service; Thousands of machines can be created and make available for use without taking much time.
• Virtualization software can virtualize the physical servers without taking much time.

Google: When you think of Google, virtualization might not make the top of the list of things that come to mind, but its Google Apps, App Engine and extensive Business Services list demonstrates how it has embraced cloud-oriented services.The company’s open source Google Ganeti cluster virtual server management software tool is built on top of existing virtualization technologies like Xen or KVM and essentially serves as a wrapper around these hypervisors to help system admins set up clusters.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 10 of the course text, watch the video Crime Spotting: Joy of Stats (1/6) (Links to an external site.), review the media piece How Prohibition Encouraged Women to Drink (Links to an external site.) and the journal article, “Bootlegging Mothers and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Montana”.

In this last discussion, we address mixed methods, which brings together quantitative and qualitative approaches in unique ways. This discussion will support you in understanding the unique application of mixed methods in research. We will also bring the weeks of discussions together by addressing the value of understanding the human experience in society through research and specifically how research reporting can aid our understanding of social phenomena as well as influence social and public policy.

In your initial post, address the following:

• Discuss the reasons for using mixed methods. Select one of the complex mixed-methods designs (experimental, case study, participatory-social justice, or evaluation). What is an example of a study you might conduct using that particular design?
• After watching the video Crime Spotting: Joy of Stats (1/6) (Links to an external site.), respond to the following:
• How does the City of San Francisco currently use its crime data? Explain the value of this data to the citizens in the city and the police service.
• The level of data collection, police service planning, and community advocacy involved in the program highlighted in the video would add a significant financial cost to city operations. Other than the safety of citizens and supporting police efforts, can you think of two key reasons why San Francisco city leaders would want the city to be safe?
• As an example of another form of research reporting; we can also be informed of the human experience through a review of historical and secondary data. After reading the media piece “How Prohibition made Women’s Drinking More Acceptable” (Links to an external site.) and the journal article, “Bootlegging Mothers and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Montana”, respond to the following:
  • Indicate the social problems or issues highlighted in this research article.
  • Explain the experience of women in Butte, Montana during the prohibition. How were their actions a reflection of their social circumstances?
  • How can an understanding of the society of prohibition era Butte, Montana, help us understand society today? What does it say about the effects of public policy on society?

Your initial post should be at least 650 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

Write a cover letter for the job description below. Resume is attached:

NAVIS is excited to hire an experienced Team Coordinator (Executive Assistant) to help our teams build and deliver world-class customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation tools for the hospitality industry here in beautiful Bend, Oregon.

In this critical role, you will be the glue that holds our Product, Engineering, and Client Success teams together. You will serve as a strategic partner to each executive and their respective teams to maximize efficiencies and promote cross team collaboration.

The top 3 areas to be successful in this role include:

• Effective Communication: Keep the work flowing, reduce errors, prevent chaos, and flag issues
• Overarching Processes: Ensure proficiency in the main processes – regularly scheduled meetings, calendar management, meeting preparation, e-mail management, project management, travel, follow-up systems, and prioritization
• Welcomed Feedback: Trusting that open constructive feedback, whether it be about performance, processes, roles, or a situation, is critical to the success of the relationship

This position provides administrative support to the VP of Product Solutions, VP of Engineering, and VP of Client Success. In addition to facilitating communication and responding to inquiries for information and scheduling; the Team Coordinator performs duties such as travel planning, coordination of meetings and conferences, completing expense reports, obtaining supplies, and working on special projects.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Coordinate the execution of strategic Product Solutions, Engineering, and Client Success initiatives

• Support VPs with calendar management, time management, planning and coordination of meetings and office time; effectively managing executives’ calendars in order to best support executives’ time and efficiency; all the while striving for a good rapport with cross-departments and representing the teams
• Assess inquiries directed to the supported executives, determine the proper course of action and delegate when appropriate to individuals to manage
• Manage multiple executives’ calendars
• Record, and publish meeting minutes
• Tactfully handle inquiries, ascertaining the nature of business and direct appropriately
• Ensure all department issues are addressed properly, efficiently and judiciously, and keep track of progress until resolved
• Event planning, including several large client conferences and team meetings
• Travel planning (30%)
• Cross-functional team coordination & follow through (50%)
• Administration Support (10%)
• Working on special projects (10%)

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least three (3) years of administrative support, office management, or event planning
• Must be results-oriented with experience in a cross functional team environment
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver solutions
• Be willing to help teammates, share knowledge and experience with them, and learn from them

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Hospitality, CRM, and/or Marketing Automation experience
• Bachelor’s degree

Using the concepts learned through the readings and lecture pages, write a critical analysis essay that answers at least three of the following prompts or questions:

1. How might you employ critical thinking as a tool to further your career aspirations?
2. Describe the differences between inert information, assumptions, and inferences. Describe an assumption that you have made in the past that had important consequence.
3. Where do you see yourself using activated ignorance (Links to an external site.) to think about issues? What steps could you take to move towards activated knowledge on this issue?
4. What is the difference between activated ignorance and activated knowledge? Where do you have difficulties “thinking for yourself”? Why does critical thinking demand high levels of intellectual autonomy?
5. Why are concepts, theories, and ideas central to good critical reasoning?

Requirements:

• Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources. While it is acceptable to write in the first person, be sure to cite your sources to support your inferences. To understand how to construct your thoughts you can view these short clips on informal and formal writing.
  • Peter Elbow: On Writing (Links to an external site.)
  • Writing for Life: Start 39:58 end 41:30
  • Writing Across the Curriculum: Forgetting formality: Start 29:05 end 32:52
  • Writing Across the Curriculum Revising for Formality: Start 32:53 end 34:48
• Include at least one or two scholarly sources that are not part of the required or recommended reading for this course. The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these sources.
• Your paper should be four to five pages in length and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).
• Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font Times New Roman.
• Include the following in your essay: a brief introduction (Links to an external site.), a conclusion (Links to an external site.), and a reference page formatted according to CSU-Global APA requirements.