Step 1: Engage Stakeholders
The first step in the CDC Framework approach to program evaluation is to engage the
stakeholders. Stakeholders are people or organizations that are invested in the program, are
interested in the results of the evaluation, and/or have a stake in what will be done with the
results of the evaluation. Representing their needs and interests throughout the process is
fundamental to good program evaluation.
Typical Stakeholders in Public Health
Key stakeholders for evaluations of public health programs fall into three major groups:
• Those involved in program operations: Management, program staff, partners, funding
agencies, and coalition members.
• Those served or affected by the program: Patients or clients, advocacy groups,
community members, and elected officials.
• Those who are intended users of the evaluation findings: Persons in a position to make
decisions about the program, such as partners, funding agencies, coalition members, and
the general public or taxpayers.
Clearly, these categories are not mutually exclusive; in particular, the primary users of
evaluation findings are often members of the other two groups, i.e., the program management or
an advocacy organization or coalition. While you may think you know your stakeholders well,
these categories help you to think broadly and inclusively in identifying stakeholders.
Potential Stakeholders in Public Health Programs
• Program managers and staff.
• Local, state, and regional coalitions interested in the public health issue.
• Local grantees of your funds.
• Local and national advocacy partners.
• Other funding agencies, such as national and state governments.
• State or local health departments and health commissioners.
• State education agencies, schools, and other educational groups.
• Universities and educational institutions.
• Local government, state legislators, and state governors.
• Privately owned businesses and business associations.
• Health care systems and the medical community.
• Religious organizations.
• Community organizations.
• Private citizens.
• Program critics.
• Representatives of populations disproportionately affected by the problem.
• Law enforcement representatives.
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs Page 13
Why Stakeholders are Important to an Evaluation
Stakeholders can help (or hinder) an evaluation before it is conducted, while it is being
conducted, and after the results are collected and ready for use. Because so many public health
efforts are complex and because public health agencies may be several layers removed from
frontline implementation, stakeholders take on particular importance in ensuring that the right
evaluation questions are identified and that evaluation results will be used to make a difference.
Stakeholders are much more likely to support the evaluation and act on the results and
recommendations if they are involved.
QUESTION 1What are the main streams of influence, according to.docxmakdul
QUESTION 1
What are the main streams of influence, according to the Theory of Triadic Influence? Please provide examples factors/attributes that belong to each of those streams. What is the relationship/correlation between each of those streams?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 2
The PRECEDE-PROCEED approach has several key assessment/diagnosis phases. Please describe the epidemiological assessment. What are some key sources of data used in this assessment? Which main questions is this assessment is trying to address/answer?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 3
What specific questions the evaluators are bringing forward as they are trying to collect the necessary evaluation data? What are the three main types of evaluation discussed in the PRECEDE-PROCEED approach? What is each of them trying to identify, measure, evaluate?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 4
What are some of the key assumptions behind the PRECEDE-PROCEED approach? What are some of the key benefits of using this approach? What are some of the “real-life” examples of using this approach?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit Lesson Study Guide
In Unit 4, we will continue to discuss health behavior and its association with factors that could influence such behaviors. These types of influences are referred to as multilevel factors of behaviors, and they typically fall into five main categories:
1. individual factors,
2. inter-personal factors,
3. organizational factors,
4. community factors, and
5. policy factors
Consider the following scenario:
A 50-year-old man may purposely postpone getting a prostate cancer test because he is scared of finding out that he may have prostate cancer. This is an example of an individual- level factor. However, we need to look into this further and consider the following: his inaction might also be influenced by his primary physician’s failure to actually recommend and insist that he would need to take the prostate test. Another factor might be the difficulty of scheduling an appointment due to either unavailable equipment or the unavailability of staff at his local clinic. Another limiting factor could be that the fee for the exam is so high he cannot afford it, and his insurance does not cover this type of procedure. Thus, all these interpersonal, organizational, and policy factors are influencing this man’s behavior to not complete the prostate test. Therefore, for health promotion practitioners, it is very important to be aware of all these factors so effective change strategies or interventions can be prescribed.
One of the multilevel theories that will be discussed is the Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI). TTI behaviors arise due to one’s current social situation, general cultural environment, and their personal characteristics. Any health-related behaviors are influenced by an individual’s decisions.
What wo ...
CHAPTER SIXTEENUnderstanding Context Evaluation and MeasuremeJinElias52
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Understanding Context: Evaluation and Measurement in Not-for-Profit Sectors
Dale C. Brandenburg
Many individuals associated with community agencies, health care, public workforce development, and similar not-for-profit organizations view program evaluation akin to a visit to the dentist’s office. It’s painful, but at some point it cannot be avoided. A major reason for this perspective is that evaluation is seen as taking money away from program activities that perform good for others, that is, intruding on valuable resources that are intended for delivering the “real” services of the organization (Kopczynski & Pritchard, 2004). A major reason for this logic is that since there are limited funds available to serve the public good, why must a portion of program delivery be allocated to something other than serving people in need? This is not an unreasonable point and one that program managers in not-for-profits face on a continuing basis.
The focus of evaluation in not-for-profit organization has shifted in recent years from administrative data to outcome measurement, impact evaluation, and sustainability (Aspen Institute, 2000), thus a shift from short-term to long-term effects of interventions. Evaluators in the not-for-profit sector view their world as the combination of technical knowledge, communication skills, and political savvy that can make or break the utility and value of the program under consideration. Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to value the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and generally working together. This chapter is meant to provide a glimpse at a minor portion of the evaluation efforts that take place in the not-for-profit sector. It excludes, for example, the efforts in public education, but does provide some context for workforce development efforts.
CONTRAST OF CONTEXTS
Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to have different criteria for the judgment of its worth than is typically found in corporate and similar settings. Such criteria are likely to include the following:
How useful is the evaluation?
Is the evaluation feasible and practical?
Does the evaluation hold high ethical principles?
Does the evaluation measure the right things, and is it accurate?
Using criteria such as the above seems a far cry from concepts of return on investment that are of vital importance in the profit sector. Even the cause of transfer of training can sometimes be of secondary importance to assuring that the program is described accurately. Another difference is the pressure of time. Programs offered by not-for-profit organizations, such as an alcohol recovery program, take a long time to see the effects and, by the time results are viewable, the organization has moved on to the next program. Instead we often see that evaluation is relegated to measuring the countable, the numbers of people who have completed the program, rather than the life-changing impact that decreased alcohol abuse has on ...
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health.docxmariuse18nolet
Introduction to
Program Evaluation
for Public Health Programs:
A Self-Study Guide
Suggested Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Office of the Director, Office of Strategy and Innovation.
Introduction to program evaluation for public health
programs: A self-study guide. Atlanta, GA: Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
OCTOBER 2011
Acknowledgments
This manual integrates, in part, the excellent work of the many CDC programs that have used
CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health to develop guidance documents and
other materials for their grantees and partners. We thank in particular the Office on Smoking
and Health, and the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, whose prior work influenced the
content of this manual.
We thank the following people from the Evaluation Manual Planning Group for their assistance in
coordinating, reviewing, and producing this document. In particular:
NCHSTP, Division of TB Elimination: Maureen Wilce
NCID, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases: Jennifer Weissman
NCCDPHP, Division of Diabetes Translation: Clay Cooksey
NCEH, Division of Airborne and Respiratory Diseases: Kathy Sunnarborg
We extend special thanks to Daphna Gregg and Antoinette Buchanan for their careful editing
and composition work on drafts of the manual, and to the staff of the Office of the Associate
Director of Science for their careful review of the manual and assistance with the clearance
process.
Contents
Page
Executive Summary
Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 3
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders .................................................................................................. 13
Step 2: Describe the Program ................................................................................................ 21
Step 3: Focus the Evaluation Design ..................................................................................... 42
Step 4: Gather Credible Evidence ......................................................................................... 56
Step 5: Justify Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 74
Step 6: Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings and Share Lessons Learned ......................... 82
Glossary ......................................................................................................................................... 91
Program Evaluation Resources ..................................................................................................... 99
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs Executive Summary - 1
Executive Summary
This documen.
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health.docxbagotjesusa
Introduction to
Program Evaluation
for Public Health Programs:
A Self-Study Guide
Suggested Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Office of the Director, Office of Strategy and Innovation.
Introduction to program evaluation for public health
programs: A self-study guide. Atlanta, GA: Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
OCTOBER 2011
Acknowledgments
This manual integrates, in part, the excellent work of the many CDC programs that have used
CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health to develop guidance documents and
other materials for their grantees and partners. We thank in particular the Office on Smoking
and Health, and the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, whose prior work influenced the
content of this manual.
We thank the following people from the Evaluation Manual Planning Group for their assistance in
coordinating, reviewing, and producing this document. In particular:
NCHSTP, Division of TB Elimination: Maureen Wilce
NCID, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases: Jennifer Weissman
NCCDPHP, Division of Diabetes Translation: Clay Cooksey
NCEH, Division of Airborne and Respiratory Diseases: Kathy Sunnarborg
We extend special thanks to Daphna Gregg and Antoinette Buchanan for their careful editing
and composition work on drafts of the manual, and to the staff of the Office of the Associate
Director of Science for their careful review of the manual and assistance with the clearance
process.
Contents
Page
Executive Summary
Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 3
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders .................................................................................................. 13
Step 2: Describe the Program ................................................................................................ 21
Step 3: Focus the Evaluation Design ..................................................................................... 42
Step 4: Gather Credible Evidence ......................................................................................... 56
Step 5: Justify Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 74
Step 6: Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings and Share Lessons Learned ......................... 82
Glossary ......................................................................................................................................... 91
Program Evaluation Resources ..................................................................................................... 99
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Executive Summary
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14 Evaluation, Effectiveness, and Offender RecidivismLEARNING OBJECT.docxmoggdede
14 Evaluation, Effectiveness, and Offender RecidivismLEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
· 1. Discuss the importance of evaluative research and the role of the independent evaluator.
· 2. Explain the importance of quantitative processes in determining if treatment programs are evidence based in their practice.
· 3. Explain how validity and reliability are important to the evaluation process.
· 4. Identify some standardized instruments and explain why they are beneficial to the evaluation of treatment programs.
· 5. Explain how evaluations of drug treatment programs and sex offender treatment programs might be conducted.
· 6. Identify some of the ethical considerations when conducting evaluative research in mental health settings.
· 7. Discuss how evaluation results can be used to improve treatment program processes and outcomes.PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE EVALUATION PROCESS
When examining any program, whether therapeutic or otherwise, one of the first questions asked by politicians, policy makers, program administrators, and government officials is, “Does the treatment program work?” In such a case, the underlying desire is to know if money spent on a program is money that is well spent. In such cases, treatment providers will often be required to provide some sort of empirical “evidence” that the program is effective. This is often referred to as evidence-based program delivery. Treatment providers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs, particularly when such programs are grant funded. In turn, many correctional treatment programs seek money from grant-generating agencies, and, when they have some sort of documented program success, they increase their odds of securing such funds.
However, before going further, we would like to make one observation regarding correctional counseling and research. We believe that programs are best evaluated by researchers who themselves are treatment providers. This is particularly true if the researcher has had specific experience with the type of population that is the subject of the program evaluation. Both authors have conducted grant-funded evaluation research of treatment programs and have also studied and/or worked in a variety of treatment fields. One author in particular has worked with most typologies of offenders who have been presented in this text and has also conducted numerous evaluative studies of treatment programs that provide services to those offenders. We believe that this is important because such a practitioner is able to make sense of data that may seem confusing, uncertain, or contradictory, simply because they understand how the program and/or process of treatment intervention works within a given agency and/or with a specific offender population. With this said, it is at this point that we now turn our attention to the notion of evaluation research.Evaluation Research
For the purposes of this text, we will ...
QUESTION 1What are the main streams of influence, according to.docxmakdul
QUESTION 1
What are the main streams of influence, according to the Theory of Triadic Influence? Please provide examples factors/attributes that belong to each of those streams. What is the relationship/correlation between each of those streams?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 2
The PRECEDE-PROCEED approach has several key assessment/diagnosis phases. Please describe the epidemiological assessment. What are some key sources of data used in this assessment? Which main questions is this assessment is trying to address/answer?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 3
What specific questions the evaluators are bringing forward as they are trying to collect the necessary evaluation data? What are the three main types of evaluation discussed in the PRECEDE-PROCEED approach? What is each of them trying to identify, measure, evaluate?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
QUESTION 4
What are some of the key assumptions behind the PRECEDE-PROCEED approach? What are some of the key benefits of using this approach? What are some of the “real-life” examples of using this approach?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit Lesson Study Guide
In Unit 4, we will continue to discuss health behavior and its association with factors that could influence such behaviors. These types of influences are referred to as multilevel factors of behaviors, and they typically fall into five main categories:
1. individual factors,
2. inter-personal factors,
3. organizational factors,
4. community factors, and
5. policy factors
Consider the following scenario:
A 50-year-old man may purposely postpone getting a prostate cancer test because he is scared of finding out that he may have prostate cancer. This is an example of an individual- level factor. However, we need to look into this further and consider the following: his inaction might also be influenced by his primary physician’s failure to actually recommend and insist that he would need to take the prostate test. Another factor might be the difficulty of scheduling an appointment due to either unavailable equipment or the unavailability of staff at his local clinic. Another limiting factor could be that the fee for the exam is so high he cannot afford it, and his insurance does not cover this type of procedure. Thus, all these interpersonal, organizational, and policy factors are influencing this man’s behavior to not complete the prostate test. Therefore, for health promotion practitioners, it is very important to be aware of all these factors so effective change strategies or interventions can be prescribed.
One of the multilevel theories that will be discussed is the Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI). TTI behaviors arise due to one’s current social situation, general cultural environment, and their personal characteristics. Any health-related behaviors are influenced by an individual’s decisions.
What wo ...
CHAPTER SIXTEENUnderstanding Context Evaluation and MeasuremeJinElias52
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Understanding Context: Evaluation and Measurement in Not-for-Profit Sectors
Dale C. Brandenburg
Many individuals associated with community agencies, health care, public workforce development, and similar not-for-profit organizations view program evaluation akin to a visit to the dentist’s office. It’s painful, but at some point it cannot be avoided. A major reason for this perspective is that evaluation is seen as taking money away from program activities that perform good for others, that is, intruding on valuable resources that are intended for delivering the “real” services of the organization (Kopczynski & Pritchard, 2004). A major reason for this logic is that since there are limited funds available to serve the public good, why must a portion of program delivery be allocated to something other than serving people in need? This is not an unreasonable point and one that program managers in not-for-profits face on a continuing basis.
The focus of evaluation in not-for-profit organization has shifted in recent years from administrative data to outcome measurement, impact evaluation, and sustainability (Aspen Institute, 2000), thus a shift from short-term to long-term effects of interventions. Evaluators in the not-for-profit sector view their world as the combination of technical knowledge, communication skills, and political savvy that can make or break the utility and value of the program under consideration. Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to value the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and generally working together. This chapter is meant to provide a glimpse at a minor portion of the evaluation efforts that take place in the not-for-profit sector. It excludes, for example, the efforts in public education, but does provide some context for workforce development efforts.
CONTRAST OF CONTEXTS
Evaluation in not-for-profit settings tends to have different criteria for the judgment of its worth than is typically found in corporate and similar settings. Such criteria are likely to include the following:
How useful is the evaluation?
Is the evaluation feasible and practical?
Does the evaluation hold high ethical principles?
Does the evaluation measure the right things, and is it accurate?
Using criteria such as the above seems a far cry from concepts of return on investment that are of vital importance in the profit sector. Even the cause of transfer of training can sometimes be of secondary importance to assuring that the program is described accurately. Another difference is the pressure of time. Programs offered by not-for-profit organizations, such as an alcohol recovery program, take a long time to see the effects and, by the time results are viewable, the organization has moved on to the next program. Instead we often see that evaluation is relegated to measuring the countable, the numbers of people who have completed the program, rather than the life-changing impact that decreased alcohol abuse has on ...
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health.docxmariuse18nolet
Introduction to
Program Evaluation
for Public Health Programs:
A Self-Study Guide
Suggested Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Office of the Director, Office of Strategy and Innovation.
Introduction to program evaluation for public health
programs: A self-study guide. Atlanta, GA: Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
OCTOBER 2011
Acknowledgments
This manual integrates, in part, the excellent work of the many CDC programs that have used
CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health to develop guidance documents and
other materials for their grantees and partners. We thank in particular the Office on Smoking
and Health, and the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, whose prior work influenced the
content of this manual.
We thank the following people from the Evaluation Manual Planning Group for their assistance in
coordinating, reviewing, and producing this document. In particular:
NCHSTP, Division of TB Elimination: Maureen Wilce
NCID, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases: Jennifer Weissman
NCCDPHP, Division of Diabetes Translation: Clay Cooksey
NCEH, Division of Airborne and Respiratory Diseases: Kathy Sunnarborg
We extend special thanks to Daphna Gregg and Antoinette Buchanan for their careful editing
and composition work on drafts of the manual, and to the staff of the Office of the Associate
Director of Science for their careful review of the manual and assistance with the clearance
process.
Contents
Page
Executive Summary
Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 3
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders .................................................................................................. 13
Step 2: Describe the Program ................................................................................................ 21
Step 3: Focus the Evaluation Design ..................................................................................... 42
Step 4: Gather Credible Evidence ......................................................................................... 56
Step 5: Justify Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 74
Step 6: Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings and Share Lessons Learned ......................... 82
Glossary ......................................................................................................................................... 91
Program Evaluation Resources ..................................................................................................... 99
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs Executive Summary - 1
Executive Summary
This documen.
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health.docxbagotjesusa
Introduction to
Program Evaluation
for Public Health Programs:
A Self-Study Guide
Suggested Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Office of the Director, Office of Strategy and Innovation.
Introduction to program evaluation for public health
programs: A self-study guide. Atlanta, GA: Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
OCTOBER 2011
Acknowledgments
This manual integrates, in part, the excellent work of the many CDC programs that have used
CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health to develop guidance documents and
other materials for their grantees and partners. We thank in particular the Office on Smoking
and Health, and the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, whose prior work influenced the
content of this manual.
We thank the following people from the Evaluation Manual Planning Group for their assistance in
coordinating, reviewing, and producing this document. In particular:
NCHSTP, Division of TB Elimination: Maureen Wilce
NCID, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases: Jennifer Weissman
NCCDPHP, Division of Diabetes Translation: Clay Cooksey
NCEH, Division of Airborne and Respiratory Diseases: Kathy Sunnarborg
We extend special thanks to Daphna Gregg and Antoinette Buchanan for their careful editing
and composition work on drafts of the manual, and to the staff of the Office of the Associate
Director of Science for their careful review of the manual and assistance with the clearance
process.
Contents
Page
Executive Summary
Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 3
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders .................................................................................................. 13
Step 2: Describe the Program ................................................................................................ 21
Step 3: Focus the Evaluation Design ..................................................................................... 42
Step 4: Gather Credible Evidence ......................................................................................... 56
Step 5: Justify Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 74
Step 6: Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings and Share Lessons Learned ......................... 82
Glossary ......................................................................................................................................... 91
Program Evaluation Resources ..................................................................................................... 99
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs Executive Summary - 1
Executive Summary
This documen.
14 Evaluation, Effectiveness, and Offender RecidivismLEARNING OBJECT.docxmoggdede
14 Evaluation, Effectiveness, and Offender RecidivismLEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
· 1. Discuss the importance of evaluative research and the role of the independent evaluator.
· 2. Explain the importance of quantitative processes in determining if treatment programs are evidence based in their practice.
· 3. Explain how validity and reliability are important to the evaluation process.
· 4. Identify some standardized instruments and explain why they are beneficial to the evaluation of treatment programs.
· 5. Explain how evaluations of drug treatment programs and sex offender treatment programs might be conducted.
· 6. Identify some of the ethical considerations when conducting evaluative research in mental health settings.
· 7. Discuss how evaluation results can be used to improve treatment program processes and outcomes.PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE EVALUATION PROCESS
When examining any program, whether therapeutic or otherwise, one of the first questions asked by politicians, policy makers, program administrators, and government officials is, “Does the treatment program work?” In such a case, the underlying desire is to know if money spent on a program is money that is well spent. In such cases, treatment providers will often be required to provide some sort of empirical “evidence” that the program is effective. This is often referred to as evidence-based program delivery. Treatment providers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs, particularly when such programs are grant funded. In turn, many correctional treatment programs seek money from grant-generating agencies, and, when they have some sort of documented program success, they increase their odds of securing such funds.
However, before going further, we would like to make one observation regarding correctional counseling and research. We believe that programs are best evaluated by researchers who themselves are treatment providers. This is particularly true if the researcher has had specific experience with the type of population that is the subject of the program evaluation. Both authors have conducted grant-funded evaluation research of treatment programs and have also studied and/or worked in a variety of treatment fields. One author in particular has worked with most typologies of offenders who have been presented in this text and has also conducted numerous evaluative studies of treatment programs that provide services to those offenders. We believe that this is important because such a practitioner is able to make sense of data that may seem confusing, uncertain, or contradictory, simply because they understand how the program and/or process of treatment intervention works within a given agency and/or with a specific offender population. With this said, it is at this point that we now turn our attention to the notion of evaluation research.Evaluation Research
For the purposes of this text, we will ...
Chapter 1 Evaluation and Social Work Making the ConnectionP.docxzebadiahsummers
Chapter 1 Evaluation and Social Work: Making the Connection
Page 4
Let’s begin by considering three important questions: 1. Is evaluation an important area of social work? 2. Is the evaluator role an important one for social workers? 3. How can evaluations help improve or enhance social work interventions? These questions may be your questions as you begin to read this book. They are questions that many social work students and practitioners have pondered. This book is about evaluation so the responses to the first two questions, in brief, will be no surprise to you. Yes, evaluation is an important area of social work. Further, the evaluator role is an important role for every social worker to prepare to assume. Some social workers will be evaluators of programs, and virtually every social worker will be an evaluator of their own practice. It’s like asking whether social workers need to know whether they are doing a good job, or asking them if they know whether their interventions are effective in helping their clients. The third question, asking how evaluation can help improve social work interventions, is the focus of this text.
The underlying theme driving the book is that evaluation is a vital element of any social work approach and is critical for ensuring that social work actually does work! A reassuring theme is that evaluation is a practice area that BSW and MSW students and practitioners alike can learn. Social workers and students wanting to maximize their impact in their jobs will find that the perspective, knowledge, ethics, and skills of evaluations covered in this book are a central component of practice and ensure that you will have a much greater impact on your clients’ well-being. This book provides the needed preparation for evaluation in both a comprehensive and a readable format. The primary emphasis is on the various kinds of small and mid-range formative evaluations that are often implemented at the local agency level; less emphasis is placed on the large, com-plex national and regional studies that may draw the most coverage under the title evaluation. These smaller formative evaluations are also the critical ones that social work students and graduates either are assigned or should consider taking on in their field placements and employment agencies. Such
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evaluations often are instrumental in determining whether the programs in which you are working will continue and possibly expand. Example of a Small, Formative Evaluation An agency that provides an anger management program to perpetrators of domestic violence offers a series of ten psychoeducational group sessions to help them manage their anger. The agency also conducts an evaluation of this program that is integral to it. An anger management scale is used to measure changes that occur in the participants’ anger after they have completed all ten sessions of a group program. Throughout the series, the specific items of the anger management scale (e.g., be.
HCM 3305, Community Health 1 Course Learning Outcom.docxaryan532920
HCM 3305, Community Health 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VIII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
3. Recognize effective organization and promotion of health programming for community health on a
global scale.
3.1. Assess the steps for organizing a community health program.
3.2. Identify steps needed to effectively evaluate the community health program.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 15:
Systems Thinking and Leadership in Community and Public Health
Unit Lesson
In this unit, we will discuss systems thinking and community health programming.
Community organizing is a process that involves the engagement of individuals, groups, and organizations.
Program planning is not required in community organizing; however, it is often times used. Program planning
is a process where a health intervention is planned to meet the needs within a population. Antiviolence
campaigns and stress management courses are examples of program planning (McKenzie, Pinger, & Kotecki,
2012).
When deciding which community health interventions to create, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) uses Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). The Community Guide
is considered credible because it is based off the scientific systematic review process. The guide answers
many questions that are critical to community health on subjects such as
interventions that have worked/did not work,
populations in which the intervention worked/did not work,
cost of the intervention,
benefits/risks of the intervention, and
future research recommendations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015).
Community health programs are intricate and are a key factor in disease prevention, improving health, and
increasing quality of life. Health status and behaviors are determined by personal, environmental, policy, and
organizational influences. Community health programming is targeted at reaching the goals of Healthy People
2010. Community health programs are generally held within healthcare settings; however, other settings are
becoming more popular. Programs are being held at schools, worksites, religious organizations, and within
communities (Healthy People 2020, 2015). There are instances where healthcare organizations are
collaborating with schools to offer health programs. For instance, nutrition and exercise programs are being
offered at an increased rate. Employers see the value of employee health. Therefore, many employers offer
incentives to employees who take part in employee wellness programs. It is not far fetched to hear about
employers checking cholesterol, blood pressure, quality of life, weight, BMI, and sometimes glucose. The
rationale is that healthy employees are less likely to call in sick with health-related conditions.
Community health professionals must identify their health issue, and then create specific and measurable
goals and objectives. ...
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Stakeholder Involvement In Evaluation Planning
Student Name
Institution Name
Course Number
Due Date
Faculty Name
Topic: Stakeholder Involvement In evaluation Planning
Stakeholders are the people that are at stake on the evaluation. They are individuals that have interest in or are impacted by evaluation and its results. I would consider involving stakeholders in health program planning. Stakeholders have the ability to provide ideas and aidin the creation of potential solutions (Ferreira,et al., 2020). In most cases stakeholders are from various backgrounds; they therefore look at issues from various perspectives.this allows opposing viewpoints to be expressed and also discussed. Engaging stakeholders from the planning stage, maximizes the chance of project success through the final execution. They may as well aid in preventing unforeseen problems (Michnej, & Zwolinski, 2018). They have a great influence on the community of animal lovers, thus it is imperative to have an advocate instead of an adversary.
I would consider facilitating stakeholder’s involvement through maintaining open communication. The stakeholders need to be updated on the organization’s core purpose. It is essential to be consistent in the messages, and use them to show employees how they fit in the plan as well as how their contributions have aided in shaping the decisions made (Smith, 2017). Individuals that know what is expected as well as how they contribute tend to be more engaged and committed in comparison to those that do not. It is essential to ensure that the stakeholders know where they fit in. engaging employees in the planning process aids in building ownership in the firm.
References
Ferreira, V., Barreira, A. P., Loures, L., Antunes, D., & Panagopoulos, T. (2020). Stakeholders’ engagement on nature-based solutions: A systematic literature review. Sustainability, 12(2), 640.
Michnej, M., & Zwoliński, T. (2018). The role and responsibility of stakeholders in the planning process of the sustainable urban mobility in the city Krakow. Transport Economics and Logistics, 80, 159-167.
Smith, P. A. (2017). Stakeholder engagement framework. Information & Security, 38, 35-45.
TOPIC: Strategies and Ethics
As the director of the local public health department, you are preparing to conduct a town hall presentation. In it you will communicate the direction of the strategic plan. Your audience will include collaborative partners (invested stakeholders) such as academicians, health professionals, state health department staff, representatives from affected communities, and representatives from nongovernmental organizations.
Recall that your Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation Planning discussion in Unit 5 reviewed the planning and evaluation cycle (Figure 11-1 in your textbook). In addition, in that discussion you explained where in the cycle and how you would seek stakeholder involvement in evaluation planning. The town hall presentation is on ...
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Process of Planning and Evaluation
The process of planning and evaluation is cyclical and their activities are interdependent. The activities happen in stages; the end of one activity or program leads to the next. The ideas, insights, and learning derived from a particular stage are likely to affect the decisions and activities of the next stage.
Despite this, the process of planning and evaluation is usually presented in a linear manner with sequential steps. The cycle is often affected by external influences. Planners and evaluators need to be flexible in responding to these influences
Health Program Models
Good health programs involve a good deal of effort and a well-developed model. These models provide direction and structure to the program to be built on. The models may not be used completely during the planning process, or various parts of the model may be combined to suit the program. There are some commonly used models in health program planning:
· Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation (PRECEDE)-Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development (PROCEED): Commonly known as the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, it is the most well-known model in this field because it is theoretically grounded and comprehensive. Planning, implementation, and evaluation are all combined in this model.
· The Model for Health Education Planning (MHEP) analyzes:
· Planning through six phases
· Content through three dimensions―subject matter, method, and process
· The Comprehensive Health Education Model (CHEM) consists of six major steps and several suggested procedures within each step.
· The Model for Health Education Planning and Resource Development (MHEPRD) is a less known model. The five major components of this model are―health education plans, demonstration programs, educational programs, research programs, and information and statistics. Each component represents the end result of the planning process. In this model, evaluation plays an integral part in each phase of the model.
Written Assignment 1: Quality of Simulation
Chapter 3 discusses methods to assess the quality of simulations. You learned about three different views of simulation quality.
Suppose you lead a task force that is developing a simulation to provide strategic planning recommendations for property use zoning for a county of 750,000 residents. The zoning board and county commissioners want a simulation that allows them to assess the impact of various zoning decisions based on a variety of dynamic factors, including age, race, education, and income status.
Submit a 2-page (double-spaced) paper addressing the following:
1. First, identify which of the three views discussed in the chapter that would provide the best quality assessment for the situation described above, and explain your decision.
2. Explain how would you ensure the highest level of accuracy with your simulation, and how w ...
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Assessment 7
Course Textbook: Edberg, M. (2015). Essentials of health behavior: Social and behavioral theory in public health (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Q.1 MUST BE ANSWERED ON SATURDAY, Mar. 10 NLT 10 PM EST (200 words A MUST for each question. Please provide reference for each question for each question. Keep them numbered.)
1. This unit provided the 10-step approach of putting a communication campaign together. Step 6 involves selecting the appropriate communication channels. Why would selecting the right channel or channels be so important? What would be some of the examples of those channels if you were trying to put a communication campaign together that was designed to increase awareness for young people about the need for physical exercise and better eating habits to address the problem of obesity?
2. What are some of the key components in the overall ecology of global health? Are these different from the ecological context for domestic health? If so, how? Please explain and provide supporting examples.
3. Does mobile technology and social media change the way communications theory can be applied? Or do these developments change the theory itself?
4. Imagine you are in charge of putting an anti-smoking communication campaign together (geared towards young adults) in your local community. Correctly identifying your target audience would be an important step. Who would be your target audience or audiences in this example? Are there any groups or sub-groups? Also, would you need to segment your audience in any way? Please address each of these questions and explain the overall importance of correctly identifying your target audience as part of your intended communication campaign.
Q.1 MUST BE ANSWERED ON SATURDAY, Mar. 10 NLT 10 PM EST (A PARAGRAPH ONLY)
Q. 1 Why is it important to specifically identify those individuals who are the most vulnerable in terms of getting a certain disease or diseases?
· Why do general or mainstream approaches typically not work on those high-risk populations or groups?
ARTICLE REVIEW (READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE ITEM HIGHLIGHTED IN RED)
· MUST BE ANSWERED BY MONDAY, MAR. 12 NLT 10 PM EST
For this assignment, choose a peer-reviewed article to review. Use source that contains peer-reviewed articles, and find an article about a concept tied to the unit outcomes in this unit.
Write a three- to five-page review (not counting the cover page and references page) of the article that includes the following information:
Briefly introduce and summarize the article.
Identify the author’s main points.
Who is the author’s intended audience?
How does the article apply to this course? Does it support the information in your textbook?
How could the author expand on the main points?
The article must be no more than three years old. Use APA style when writing your review.
UNIT VII STUD.
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Develop a health promotion plan, 2-3 pages in length, addressing a specific health concern within your community. Then, enlist the participation of a selected individual or group in an educational session about that health concern and associated health improvement strategies.
For this assessment, you will plan for and enlist the participation of an individual or group in a clinical learning activity based on a health promotion plan addressing a particular health concern affecting members of your community.
Professional Context
The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of
who
,
what
,
when
,
where
, and
why
that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations.
Analyze a community health concern that is the focus of a health promotion plan.
Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
Explain why a health concern is important for health promotion within a specific population.
Establish agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
Note:
Assessment 1 must be completed first before you are able to submit Assessment 4.
Preparation
The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of who, what, when, where, and why that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation. This assessment
MUST
be satisfactorily completed to complete Assessment 4 (live face-to-face presentation of the plan). These assessments (Assessment 1 and 4) meet the three-hour clinical learning experience required in this course.
To prepare for the assessment, consider various health concerns that you would like to be the focus of your plan, the populations potentially affected by that c.
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14 Evaluation, Effectiveness, and Offender Recidivism
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE EVALUATION PROCESS
When examining any program, whether therapeutic or otherwise, one of the first questions asked by politicians, policy makers, program administrators, and government officials is, “Does the treatment program work?” In such a case, the underlying desire is to know if money spent on a program is money that is well spent. In such cases, treatment providers will often be required to provide some sort of empirical “evidence” that the program is effective. This is often referred to as evidence-based program delivery. Treatment providers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs, particularly when such programs are grant funded. In turn, many correctional treatment programs seek money from grant-generating agencies, and, when they have some sort of documented program success, they increase their odds of securing such funds.
However, before going further, we would like to make one observation regarding correctional counseling and research. We believe that programs are best evaluated by researchers who themselves are treatment providers. This is particularly true if the researcher has had specific experience with the type of population that is the subject of the program evaluation. Both authors have conducted grant-funded evaluation research of treatment programs and have also studied and/or worked in a variety of treatment fields. One author in particular has worked with most typologies of offenders who have been presented in this text and has also conducted numerous evaluative studies of treatment programs that provide services to those offenders. We believe that this is important because such a practitioner is able to make sense of data that may seem confusing, uncertain, or contradictory, simply because they understand how the program and/or process of treatment intervention works within a given agency and/or with a specific offender population. With this said, it is at this point that we now turn our attention to the notion of evaluation research.
Evaluation Research
For the purposes of this text, we will refer to the Center for Program Evaluation and Performance Management which is a clearinghouse on evaluative research offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). This source, available online and referenced in this text, provides the reader with a very good overview of the evaluation process and also provides a number of examples pertaining to the evaluation of criminal justice and treatment programs. Because this is a federal government website, the information therein is public domain. In addition, we believe that this site provides a very clear, succinct, and effective overview of evaluation research from the eyes of the practitioner. It is for these reasons that this chapter is constructed from much of the organization and structure of the BJA website, providing the basics.
Project 2: Research Paper Compendium
Choose what you consider to be a monster or monstrosity –
literal
figurative (ideology, practice)
historical
cryptozoology
Examples:
mythology
invention
Vlad Tepes
Joseph Stalin
Pablo Escobar
Nazis
Biological Weapons
Assault Rifles
Adolf Hitler
the Ku Klux Klan
Dylan Roof
Griselda Blanco
Aileen Wuornos
Fred & Rosemary West
Mark Twitchell
Jeffrey Dahmer
Long Island Serial Killer
Jack the Ripper
Jim Jones/Jonestown
Bigfoot
Loch Ness Monster
the Hydra
Slender Man
Michael Myers
Ed Gein
Freddy Krueger
Slavery
Human Trafficking
the Drug Trade
Drug Addiction
Rwandan Genocide
Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge
Aurora shooting
Sandy Hook
Lizzie Borden
Saddam Hussein
Heaven’s Gate Cult
Baba Yaga
the Holocaust
Balkan Genocide
the list goes on…
Write an 8 to 9 page research paper in which you are the expert on this monster/monstrosity. Both your paper and your expert presentation will reflect the biography/origin; timeline of actions/atrocities; cultural/societal impact; how this subject is depicted/sensationalized through various writings/the media (stories, biographies, scholarly articles, comics, graphic novels, poems, movies, interviews, folklore/fairy tails, television shows, et cetera); and why this monster/monstrosity has meaning to you. The paper must also include
7-8 annotated bibliography entries (I have attatched a document to show what it is).
Jamal Sampson's paper has to focus on the two monsters listed:
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
.
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Project 1: Interview Essay
Conduct a brief interview with an Asian immigrant to ask about their immigration story and push-pull factors. This can last 5-15 minutes. Then, write a 2 paragraphs on the DB.
You do
not
have to include the person’s real name! Immigration status is a sensitive topic, so please understand if someone does not want to be interviewed. Students have interviewed friends, family members, people in their community, and other students.
Project 1: Prompt
1.
Brief facts:
Around what age did they immigrate? How old are they now (in my 30s is acceptable)? What push-pull factors led them to immigrate to the U.S.? (You may have to explain what push-pull factors are.)
2. Add your own comments/perspective and perhaps even your own immigration story. What aspects of their story did you find interesting or surprising? What aspects were familiar to you?
Example:
I conducted a 10 minute interview with my neighbor "Dr. Villanueva" who immigrated to the U.S. over 45 years ago at the age of 26. I asked him about his push and pull factors. What reasons did he have for leaving his home country and why did he choose the U.S. as his new home? He stated that he wanted to leave the Philippines for a better life and more opportunities. He had grown up as the youngest of nine children and was very poor, but was able to study medicine and become a medical doctor specializing in ophthalmology. He heard that the U.S. was encouraging medical professionals to work there especially if they were fluent in English. According to our reading "Filipinos in America," (Lee 2015) the Philippines was a colony of the U.S. from 1898-1945 and English was taught in the education system (Lee, p. 90). Plus, many Filipinos then and still today dream about immigrating to the United States to improve their educational and financial opportunities. Dr. Villanueva came to the U.S. after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolished national quotas but limited immigration from Asia to educated professionals. When I asked if he felt that he experienced discrimination, Dr. Villanueva said yes, many times, but overall he is glad that he immigrated because his children had so many more opportunities in the U.S. Often, people still think that he is a foreigner or can't speak English. There have been a few occasions that people directed racial slurs at him, but he has not experienced any physical harm.
Dr. Villanueva seems to fit much of the data on Asian Americans that we studied in this class. However, I noticed some ways that he did not. For example, {etc....} Dr. Villanueva's story is much different than my grandparents' story who immigrated from __ and did not have college degrees when they arrived. [ADD YOUR PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERVIEW.]
.
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3. Recognize effective organization and promotion of health programming for community health on a
global scale.
3.1. Assess the steps for organizing a community health program.
3.2. Identify steps needed to effectively evaluate the community health program.
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Unit Lesson
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populations in which the intervention worked/did not work,
cost of the intervention,
benefits/risks of the intervention, and
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Stakeholder Involvement In Evaluation Planning
Student Name
Institution Name
Course Number
Due Date
Faculty Name
Topic: Stakeholder Involvement In evaluation Planning
Stakeholders are the people that are at stake on the evaluation. They are individuals that have interest in or are impacted by evaluation and its results. I would consider involving stakeholders in health program planning. Stakeholders have the ability to provide ideas and aidin the creation of potential solutions (Ferreira,et al., 2020). In most cases stakeholders are from various backgrounds; they therefore look at issues from various perspectives.this allows opposing viewpoints to be expressed and also discussed. Engaging stakeholders from the planning stage, maximizes the chance of project success through the final execution. They may as well aid in preventing unforeseen problems (Michnej, & Zwolinski, 2018). They have a great influence on the community of animal lovers, thus it is imperative to have an advocate instead of an adversary.
I would consider facilitating stakeholder’s involvement through maintaining open communication. The stakeholders need to be updated on the organization’s core purpose. It is essential to be consistent in the messages, and use them to show employees how they fit in the plan as well as how their contributions have aided in shaping the decisions made (Smith, 2017). Individuals that know what is expected as well as how they contribute tend to be more engaged and committed in comparison to those that do not. It is essential to ensure that the stakeholders know where they fit in. engaging employees in the planning process aids in building ownership in the firm.
References
Ferreira, V., Barreira, A. P., Loures, L., Antunes, D., & Panagopoulos, T. (2020). Stakeholders’ engagement on nature-based solutions: A systematic literature review. Sustainability, 12(2), 640.
Michnej, M., & Zwoliński, T. (2018). The role and responsibility of stakeholders in the planning process of the sustainable urban mobility in the city Krakow. Transport Economics and Logistics, 80, 159-167.
Smith, P. A. (2017). Stakeholder engagement framework. Information & Security, 38, 35-45.
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The process of planning and evaluation is cyclical and their activities are interdependent. The activities happen in stages; the end of one activity or program leads to the next. The ideas, insights, and learning derived from a particular stage are likely to affect the decisions and activities of the next stage.
Despite this, the process of planning and evaluation is usually presented in a linear manner with sequential steps. The cycle is often affected by external influences. Planners and evaluators need to be flexible in responding to these influences
Health Program Models
Good health programs involve a good deal of effort and a well-developed model. These models provide direction and structure to the program to be built on. The models may not be used completely during the planning process, or various parts of the model may be combined to suit the program. There are some commonly used models in health program planning:
· Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation (PRECEDE)-Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development (PROCEED): Commonly known as the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, it is the most well-known model in this field because it is theoretically grounded and comprehensive. Planning, implementation, and evaluation are all combined in this model.
· The Model for Health Education Planning (MHEP) analyzes:
· Planning through six phases
· Content through three dimensions―subject matter, method, and process
· The Comprehensive Health Education Model (CHEM) consists of six major steps and several suggested procedures within each step.
· The Model for Health Education Planning and Resource Development (MHEPRD) is a less known model. The five major components of this model are―health education plans, demonstration programs, educational programs, research programs, and information and statistics. Each component represents the end result of the planning process. In this model, evaluation plays an integral part in each phase of the model.
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Submit a 2-page (double-spaced) paper addressing the following:
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Q.1 MUST BE ANSWERED ON SATURDAY, Mar. 10 NLT 10 PM EST (200 words A MUST for each question. Please provide reference for each question for each question. Keep them numbered.)
1. This unit provided the 10-step approach of putting a communication campaign together. Step 6 involves selecting the appropriate communication channels. Why would selecting the right channel or channels be so important? What would be some of the examples of those channels if you were trying to put a communication campaign together that was designed to increase awareness for young people about the need for physical exercise and better eating habits to address the problem of obesity?
2. What are some of the key components in the overall ecology of global health? Are these different from the ecological context for domestic health? If so, how? Please explain and provide supporting examples.
3. Does mobile technology and social media change the way communications theory can be applied? Or do these developments change the theory itself?
4. Imagine you are in charge of putting an anti-smoking communication campaign together (geared towards young adults) in your local community. Correctly identifying your target audience would be an important step. Who would be your target audience or audiences in this example? Are there any groups or sub-groups? Also, would you need to segment your audience in any way? Please address each of these questions and explain the overall importance of correctly identifying your target audience as part of your intended communication campaign.
Q.1 MUST BE ANSWERED ON SATURDAY, Mar. 10 NLT 10 PM EST (A PARAGRAPH ONLY)
Q. 1 Why is it important to specifically identify those individuals who are the most vulnerable in terms of getting a certain disease or diseases?
· Why do general or mainstream approaches typically not work on those high-risk populations or groups?
ARTICLE REVIEW (READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE ITEM HIGHLIGHTED IN RED)
· MUST BE ANSWERED BY MONDAY, MAR. 12 NLT 10 PM EST
For this assignment, choose a peer-reviewed article to review. Use source that contains peer-reviewed articles, and find an article about a concept tied to the unit outcomes in this unit.
Write a three- to five-page review (not counting the cover page and references page) of the article that includes the following information:
Briefly introduce and summarize the article.
Identify the author’s main points.
Who is the author’s intended audience?
How does the article apply to this course? Does it support the information in your textbook?
How could the author expand on the main points?
The article must be no more than three years old. Use APA style when writing your review.
UNIT VII STUD.
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Develop a health promotion plan, 2-3 pages in length, addressing a specific health concern within your community. Then, enlist the participation of a selected individual or group in an educational session about that health concern and associated health improvement strategies.
For this assessment, you will plan for and enlist the participation of an individual or group in a clinical learning activity based on a health promotion plan addressing a particular health concern affecting members of your community.
Professional Context
The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of
who
,
what
,
when
,
where
, and
why
that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations.
Analyze a community health concern that is the focus of a health promotion plan.
Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
Explain why a health concern is important for health promotion within a specific population.
Establish agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with participants.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
Note:
Assessment 1 must be completed first before you are able to submit Assessment 4.
Preparation
The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a clinical learning experience focused on health promotion associated with a specific community health concern. Such a plan defines the critical elements of who, what, when, where, and why that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation. This assessment
MUST
be satisfactorily completed to complete Assessment 4 (live face-to-face presentation of the plan). These assessments (Assessment 1 and 4) meet the three-hour clinical learning experience required in this course.
To prepare for the assessment, consider various health concerns that you would like to be the focus of your plan, the populations potentially affected by that c.
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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE EVALUATION PROCESS
When examining any program, whether therapeutic or otherwise, one of the first questions asked by politicians, policy makers, program administrators, and government officials is, “Does the treatment program work?” In such a case, the underlying desire is to know if money spent on a program is money that is well spent. In such cases, treatment providers will often be required to provide some sort of empirical “evidence” that the program is effective. This is often referred to as evidence-based program delivery. Treatment providers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs, particularly when such programs are grant funded. In turn, many correctional treatment programs seek money from grant-generating agencies, and, when they have some sort of documented program success, they increase their odds of securing such funds.
However, before going further, we would like to make one observation regarding correctional counseling and research. We believe that programs are best evaluated by researchers who themselves are treatment providers. This is particularly true if the researcher has had specific experience with the type of population that is the subject of the program evaluation. Both authors have conducted grant-funded evaluation research of treatment programs and have also studied and/or worked in a variety of treatment fields. One author in particular has worked with most typologies of offenders who have been presented in this text and has also conducted numerous evaluative studies of treatment programs that provide services to those offenders. We believe that this is important because such a practitioner is able to make sense of data that may seem confusing, uncertain, or contradictory, simply because they understand how the program and/or process of treatment intervention works within a given agency and/or with a specific offender population. With this said, it is at this point that we now turn our attention to the notion of evaluation research.
Evaluation Research
For the purposes of this text, we will refer to the Center for Program Evaluation and Performance Management which is a clearinghouse on evaluative research offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). This source, available online and referenced in this text, provides the reader with a very good overview of the evaluation process and also provides a number of examples pertaining to the evaluation of criminal justice and treatment programs. Because this is a federal government website, the information therein is public domain. In addition, we believe that this site provides a very clear, succinct, and effective overview of evaluation research from the eyes of the practitioner. It is for these reasons that this chapter is constructed from much of the organization and structure of the BJA website, providing the basics.
Project 2: Research Paper Compendium
Choose what you consider to be a monster or monstrosity –
literal
figurative (ideology, practice)
historical
cryptozoology
Examples:
mythology
invention
Vlad Tepes
Joseph Stalin
Pablo Escobar
Nazis
Biological Weapons
Assault Rifles
Adolf Hitler
the Ku Klux Klan
Dylan Roof
Griselda Blanco
Aileen Wuornos
Fred & Rosemary West
Mark Twitchell
Jeffrey Dahmer
Long Island Serial Killer
Jack the Ripper
Jim Jones/Jonestown
Bigfoot
Loch Ness Monster
the Hydra
Slender Man
Michael Myers
Ed Gein
Freddy Krueger
Slavery
Human Trafficking
the Drug Trade
Drug Addiction
Rwandan Genocide
Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge
Aurora shooting
Sandy Hook
Lizzie Borden
Saddam Hussein
Heaven’s Gate Cult
Baba Yaga
the Holocaust
Balkan Genocide
the list goes on…
Write an 8 to 9 page research paper in which you are the expert on this monster/monstrosity. Both your paper and your expert presentation will reflect the biography/origin; timeline of actions/atrocities; cultural/societal impact; how this subject is depicted/sensationalized through various writings/the media (stories, biographies, scholarly articles, comics, graphic novels, poems, movies, interviews, folklore/fairy tails, television shows, et cetera); and why this monster/monstrosity has meaning to you. The paper must also include
7-8 annotated bibliography entries (I have attatched a document to show what it is).
Jamal Sampson's paper has to focus on the two monsters listed:
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
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Project 1 Interview Essay Conduct a brief interview with an Asian.docxdessiechisomjj4
Project 1: Interview Essay
Conduct a brief interview with an Asian immigrant to ask about their immigration story and push-pull factors. This can last 5-15 minutes. Then, write a 2 paragraphs on the DB.
You do
not
have to include the person’s real name! Immigration status is a sensitive topic, so please understand if someone does not want to be interviewed. Students have interviewed friends, family members, people in their community, and other students.
Project 1: Prompt
1.
Brief facts:
Around what age did they immigrate? How old are they now (in my 30s is acceptable)? What push-pull factors led them to immigrate to the U.S.? (You may have to explain what push-pull factors are.)
2. Add your own comments/perspective and perhaps even your own immigration story. What aspects of their story did you find interesting or surprising? What aspects were familiar to you?
Example:
I conducted a 10 minute interview with my neighbor "Dr. Villanueva" who immigrated to the U.S. over 45 years ago at the age of 26. I asked him about his push and pull factors. What reasons did he have for leaving his home country and why did he choose the U.S. as his new home? He stated that he wanted to leave the Philippines for a better life and more opportunities. He had grown up as the youngest of nine children and was very poor, but was able to study medicine and become a medical doctor specializing in ophthalmology. He heard that the U.S. was encouraging medical professionals to work there especially if they were fluent in English. According to our reading "Filipinos in America," (Lee 2015) the Philippines was a colony of the U.S. from 1898-1945 and English was taught in the education system (Lee, p. 90). Plus, many Filipinos then and still today dream about immigrating to the United States to improve their educational and financial opportunities. Dr. Villanueva came to the U.S. after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act abolished national quotas but limited immigration from Asia to educated professionals. When I asked if he felt that he experienced discrimination, Dr. Villanueva said yes, many times, but overall he is glad that he immigrated because his children had so many more opportunities in the U.S. Often, people still think that he is a foreigner or can't speak English. There have been a few occasions that people directed racial slurs at him, but he has not experienced any physical harm.
Dr. Villanueva seems to fit much of the data on Asian Americans that we studied in this class. However, I noticed some ways that he did not. For example, {etc....} Dr. Villanueva's story is much different than my grandparents' story who immigrated from __ and did not have college degrees when they arrived. [ADD YOUR PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERVIEW.]
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Project 1 Scenario There is a Top Secret intelligence report.docxdessiechisomjj4
Project 1:
Scenario
: There is a Top Secret intelligence report that a terrorist organization based in the Middle East is planning to plant a dirty bomb in the inner harbor of major American city in the next 48 hours. The report has not been officially released or the classification reduced. You (the student) are the Chief of Police of this major metro city and do not have a security clearance at this time. The inner harbor is a major tourist attraction, a major shipping port and home to many international shipping companies, trade zones and military and federal government facilities.
You have heard the report exists but have not seen it. As the Police Chief of (you choose the city e.g. Baltimore, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle etc) you have many questions about the report and many different agencies you will want to coordinate with. You will identify the real Homeland Security, LE and Intelligence organizations within the jurisdiction of the city you have chosen.
Requirement:
Write a minimum 1000 word paper (double space, 12 Font, New Times Roman) explaining how you would deal with this yet unseen report.
What actions would you take upon hearing of this report?
What Federal, state, local or government agencies would want to contact?
What questions would you want to ask about this report?
If it were true who would you want to share it with? Can you share it? What factors (e.g. legal, operational, public safety) might impede sharing this information?
Address
at least ten
of the concepts listed below within your paper:
Dissemination
Differentiate between intelligence and information
Intelligence products
Strategic versus tactical intelligence
Information sharing
Jurisdiction
Security classifications
Public safety
Intelligence roles
Federal versus local, state, and/or tribal
Target identification
Media/Hollywood portrayals
Database security/security of data
Value of intelligence
Domain awareness
Intelligence gap
Collection plans
Reliability, viability, and validity
Security clearances
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Project #1 Personal Reflection (10)Consider an opinion that you .docxdessiechisomjj4
Project #1: Personal Reflection (10%)
Consider an opinion that you hold dearly. Write a brief reflection on the genealogy of your opinion. This can include personal experience, upbringing, social influence, media analysis, philosophy, anything that’s helped you form your opinion.
Purpose: I want you to start thinking about your process as a thinker. We can’t improve our processes in the future without understanding what we’ve done in the past.
Length: 1-3 pages
Format: MLA, 12 point Times New Roman font, 1 inch margins
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Project 1 Chinese Dialect Exploration and InterviewYou will nee.docxdessiechisomjj4
Project 1: Chinese Dialect Exploration and Interview
You will need to cite references whenever you get the information from an article or from some online resources. In the written report, you need to include the following:
Title: An Exploration of [Dialect Name (spoken
where
)]
1.
Introduction
Introduce the geography of the dialect and which particular dialect variant you are focusing on. Give basic introduction about how many people are using this dialect and its current situation. Provide a map to indicate the dialectal grouping and the location of the speakers of the dialect.
2.
Linguistic Features of [Dialect Name (spoken
where
)]
Explore the following topics and introduce the
differences between this dialect and Standard Chinese (Mandarin)
in an organized and systematic way.
·
Syllable structure
·
Initial consonants
·
Finals (Rhymes)
·
Medials
·
Basic tones
·
Tone changes (optional: you get additional points if you explore this one)
·
Lexical or syntactic differences
To be able to do this section, you need to find resources online or from the library that reliably analyzed a dialect and systematically introduces this dialect or a dialect closely related to it. At the end of this linguistic description, summarize the speech features of speakers of this dialect when s/he uses Standard Chinese. What features do you expect a speaker of this dialect may carry into Standard Chinese? Are the differences going to be drastic enough to be detectable?
3.
Method:
In this section, you introduce the linguistic and social background of your interviewee(s).
1.
Informant Background:
Personal profile (gender, age, relevant linguistic and educational history, family background) [Have your interviewee fill out a linguistic background form provided by Prof. Lin]
2.
Setting (time and location of the interview, how was it documented?)
4.
Findings: Sociolinguistic aspect of the dialect according to the interview
You will present the interview results in an organized way. You should discuss the following issues related to the dialect:
·
What is the status of the particular dialect in relation to Mandarin? Discuss the issues related to diglossia (high versus low varieties). What are the social functions of the dialects? When do people use them and when do they not use them but opt for other languages and dialects? Compare the different uses of different dialects or speech variants.
·
Ask your interviewee his or her experiences with “accents”. How do people sound if they have accents? Do people using the dialects carry a special accent speaking Mandarin? How are people with accents perceived? Are there social stigma, attitudes, and identity issues associated with the dialect? How are people speaking this dialect usually perceived? Why do you think there are these social meanings that go with the accented speech?
·
How has this dialect changed in recent years, which may be associated with the above social political properties?
5.
Online.
Project 1 (1-2 pages)What are the employee workplace rights mand.docxdessiechisomjj4
Project 1 (1-2 pages)
What are the employee workplace rights mandated by U.S. Federal law?
Briefly discuss at least two controversial issues concerning workplace rights (other than monitoring e-mail). Provide real-life examples to illustrate your answer.
In addition, discuss the issue of workplace privacy. Specifically, do employees have the right to expect privacy in their e-mail conversations, or do companies have a right and/or responsibility to monitor e-mail?
Project 2 (1-2 pages)
Draft a performance action plan for a company to follow when providing discipline in response to complaints of sexual harassment. Use the Library or other Web resources if needed.
Please submit your assignment.
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PROGRAM 1 Favorite Show!Write an HLA Assembly program that displa.docxdessiechisomjj4
PROGRAM 1: Favorite Show!
Write an HLA Assembly program that displays your favorite television show on screen in large letters. There should be no input, only output. For example, I really like The X-Files, so my output would look like this:
All this output should be generated by just five
stdout.put
statements.
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Program must have these things Format currency, total pieces & e.docxdessiechisomjj4
Program must have these things
Format currency, total pieces & exit or ok button to go back; comments; tooltips;
Piecework C
Modify Piecework B to a multi-form project, adding a Splash form and a Summary form. Be sure to
retain your Piecework B program as you will need it later. Add a slogan and logo that the user can
display or hide independently, based on toggling and
displaying a checkmark in the menu choices; program
should start with slogan and logo being displayed and the
menu items checked. Add program version number, a
graphic, and an OK button to About box; About box should
display as modal. Splash should display project name,
programmer name, and a graphic. Change the Summary
data from a message box to its own form (also modal).
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Professors Comments1) Only the three body paragraphs were require.docxdessiechisomjj4
Professors Comments:
1) Only the three body paragraphs were required. The introduction and the conclusion were not to be included in the Unit 6 paper. They should be saved for the Unit 8 paper when the thesis will be moved to the end of the introduction.
2) You paper is already over the length limit, so nothing else can be added. Some parts could be deleted, for example: "
Samimi and Jenatabadi (2014), point out that" and "
In another article, Sandbrook and Güven (2014) asserted that
." Those phrases add nothing to the paper and are distracting. You would have to explain who they are, so eliminate that phrase and others like it.
3) Keep in mind that your paper is not a literature review. It is an essay in which you are to explain your topic clearly and concisely. Also keep in mind that your topic is one that is difficult to understand and you are not writing for economists or for those with Ph.D.'s. Write in a manner that your average reader can comprehend. Explain concepts clearly in non-jargon type language. Clarity is your goal.
4) The Federal Reserve Bank information at the end of the introduction is not cited.
5) Bullet points should not be used in this paper. Everything should be integrated into the paragraphs using transitions.
6) Subtitles should not be used. This is a short paper, 2 - 2 1/2 pages double spaced, and they are not needed.
7) What does this mean: "
Globalization makes it possible for huge organizations to comprehend economies of scale
"?
8) Do not use the word "we."
9) Since you are discussing globalization, you must explain which country you are discussing. For example, when you say "federal policy," do you mean the United States?
My draft of paper:
Thesis statement:
Globalization has influenced practically every facet regarding today’s lifestyles.
Globalization
Globalization
refers to the action or process of global incorporation as a result of the interchange associated with world perspectives, goods, concepts, as well as other facets of tradition.
Improvements in transportation (like the steam train engine, steamship, aircraft engine, as well as container ships) in addition to telecommunications infrastructure (such as the development of the telegraph along with its contemporary progeny, the world wide web as well as cellular phones) happen to be significant aspects of globalization. Therefore, it creates new interdependence associated with monetary as well as social functions.
Samimi and Jenatabadi (2014), point out that a
lthough a lot of scholars place the beginnings connected with globalization within contemporary days. Some trace its heritage a long time before the Western Age regarding Discovery as well as voyages towards the New World, others even to the 3rd centuries BC
(Samimi, & Jenatabadi, 2014)
.
Large-scale globalization started out in the 1820s. Back in the Nineteenth millennium as well as in the
early
Twentieth century, the connection of the globe's financial system.
Program EssayPlease answer essay prompt in a separate 1-page file..docxdessiechisomjj4
Program Essay
Please answer essay prompt in a separate 1-page file. Responses should be double-spaced, 11 point font or greater with 1-inch margins.
Based on what you’ve learned about the NYU communicative sciences and disorders master’s program through your application process, please name two faculty members whose research or fieldwork you are most interested in and why.
Ist
• Voice and Voice Disorders
• Neurogenic Communicative Disorders
• Dysphagia
Professor Celia Stewart is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She provides classes in Voice Disorders, Interdisciplinary Habilitation of the Speaking Voice, Multicultural and Professional Issues, and Motor Speech Disorders. She maintains a small private practice that specializes in care of the professional voice, transgender voice modification, neurogenic voice disorders, and dysphagia. She has published in the areas of spasmodic dysphonia, transgender voice, dysphagia, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease.
2nd
• Perception of linguistic and talker information in speech
• Relationship between talker processing, working memory, and linguistic processing
• Development of talker processing in children with both typical and impaired language development.
Susannah Levi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She examines how information about a speaker affects language processing. Her past research has looked at whether people sound the same when speaking different languages and whether being familiar with a speaker’s voice in one language, helps a listener understand that speaker in a different language. Her current work expands on this to examine whether children, like adults, also show a processing benefit when listening to familiar talkers. She is also exploring whether language processing can be improved for children with language disorders using speaker familiarity.
Dr. Levi received her doctorate from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, completed a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences at Indiana University. Prior to coming to NYU, she taught at the University of Michigan. She is currently the Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders.
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Program Computing Project 4 builds upon CP3 to develop a program to .docxdessiechisomjj4
Program Computing Project 4 builds upon CP3 to develop a program to perform truss analysis. A truss consists of straight, slender bars pinned together at their end points. Truss members are considered to be two force, axial members. Thus, the force caused by each truss member - and the internal force in each member - acts only along it’s axis. In other words, the direction of each member force is known and only the magnitudes must be determined. To analyze a truss we study the forces acting at each individual pin joint. This is known as the Method of Joints. We will call each pin joint a node and the slender bars connecting the nodes will be called members. The previous project computed a unit vector to describe the vector direction of every member of a truss structure. To analyze the structure a few other key inputs must be included like the support reactions and external loads applied to the structure. With all of this information, you will need to make the correct changes to the provided planar (2-D) truss template program to be able to analyze a space (3-D) truss. What you need to do For a planar truss, every node has 2 degrees of freedom, the e1 and e2 directions. Therefore, for every planar truss problem, the total number of degrees of freedom (DOF) in the structure is equal to 2 times the number of nodes. We will consider the first degree of freedom for each node as the component acting in the e1 direction. So for any given node, i, the corresponding degree of freedom is (2·i)-1. For the same node, i, the corresponding value for the second degree of freedom, the component in the e2 direction, is 2-i. This numbering notation can be modified for a space truss. The difference with the space truss is that every node has 3 degrees of freedom, one degree for each of the e1, e2 and e3 directions. The degree of freedom indices are extremely crucial in understanding how to set up the matrices for the truss analysis. For this computing project, you will first need to understand the planar truss program and the inputs that are needed for that program. The first input is the spatial coordinates (x, y, z) of the nodal locations for a truss. It is convenient to label each node with a unique number (also known as the “node number”). Each row of the nodal coordinate array should contain the x and y coordinates of the node. We will use the matrix name of “x” for all nodal coordinates. Please note that “nNode” is an integer value that corresponds to the number of nodes in the truss and must be adjusted for every new truss problem. For Node 1 this matrix array input looks like: x(1,:) = [0,0]; Once the coordinates of the nodes are in the program, you will need to input how those nodes are connected by the members of the truss. In order to describe how the members connect the nodes you will also need to label each member with a “member number”. This connectivity array should contain only the nodes that are joined by a member, with each row containing firs.
Project 1 Resource Research and ReviewNo directly quoted material.docxdessiechisomjj4
Project 1: Resource Research and Review
No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper. Resources should be summarized or paraphrased with appropriate in-text and Resource page citations.
Project 1 is designed to help prepare you for the final project at the end of the semester. You will notice that, for your final project in this course, you will be asked to trace a crime or criminal incident through the adult criminal justice system, from initial arrest to the eventual return to the community following incarceration. As you work on the final project, you will encounter numerous decision points or stages in the system. Project 1 will assist you in preparing for your final project by introducing you to topic research. You may then use the results of this project to support your final project paper.
Project 1 Assignment:
Using the designated topic listed below (see, Topics), you will search the UMUC Library Services databases and the Internet for resource material that explains, clarifies, critiques, etc. the topic.
1. Your Resource Research and Review project must contain four (4) outside sources (not instructional material for this course), at least two of which must come from the UMUC Library data base.
2. Locate books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. You may conduct your research with the assistance of a UMUC librarian, reviewing your own personal materials on the topic, using the Internet, visiting an actual library, etc. and reviewing the available items. Then, choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.
Note: You can connect to Library Services by using the Library link under RESOURCES in the Classroom task bar, or link directly to the UMUC Library Guide to Criminal Justice Resources link in CONTENT
3. Type the reference “citation” information for the book, article, or document using the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting standards. (There are links to APA format standards under Library Services.)
4. Each reference is to be followed by the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Creating an annotated bibliography calls for a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research.
5. Write a concise annotation (150 words) for each reference that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book, article, or document. This must include:
a) briefly, in your own words, describe the content of the article
b) compares or contrasts the work with at least one other article in your research review
The topic: Issues with evidence (DNA, eyewitness testimonies, direct vs. circumstantial, etc.)
Format
The project paper should begin with an introductory paragraph and end with a concluding paragraph
Each annotation should contain approximately 150 words
Double space, 12 pt. font, 1” margins
Cover pa.
Professionalism Assignment I would like for you to put together yo.docxdessiechisomjj4
Professionalism Assignment
I would like for you to put together your current resume or update one that you have previously created. Refer to the attached curriculum vitae as an example to assist with the completion of this assignment. A curriculum vitae, or CV, is typically a longer version of a resume which includes conference and journal publications, research, and awards. CVs are usually 2-3 pages, compared to a resume which should usually be limited to a single page. Since most of you will not have publication or conference presentations at this point in your academic career, please leave that section out and submit a more traditional single page resume.
Education
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2008
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Experience
Engineering Technician, 2014-Current
Engineering, Manufacturing, and Commercialization Center
Applied Physics Institute
Western Kentucky University
Instructor, 2014 - Current
Electrical Engineering Program
Department of Engineering
Western Kentucky University
Grosscurth PhD Fellow, 2012-2014
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
J.B. Speed School of Engineering
University of Louisville
Graduate Research Assistant, 2011-2012
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
J.B. Speed School of Engineering
University of Louisville
Electrical Engineer, 2009-2012
Applied Physics Institute
Western Kentucky University
Research Associate, 2008-2009
Applied Physics Institute
Western Kentucky University
Research Assistant, 2005-2008
Applied Physics Institute
Western Kentucky University
Publications
Craig Dickson, Stuart Foster,
Kyle Moss
, Anoop Paidipally, Jonathan Quiton, William Ray, and Phillip Womble,
Stochastic Modeling for Automatic Response Technology with Applications to Climate and Energy,
at the 8
th
Kentucky Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2012
Jeffrey L. Hieb, James H. Graham, Nathan Armentrout, and
Kyle Moss
,
Security Pre-Processor for Industrial Control Systems,
at the 8
th
Kentucky Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2012
Jeffery Hieb, James Graham, Jacob Schreiver,
Kyle Moss,
Security Preprocessor for Industrial Control Networks,
at the 7
th
International Conference on Information-Warfare and Security, Seattle, Washington, March 2012
Kyle Moss,
Phillip Womble, Alexander Barzilov, Jon Paschal, Jeremy Board,
Wireless Orthogonal Sensor Networks for Homeland Security
at 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, May 2007
Barzilov, P. Womble, I. Novikov, J. Paschal, Jeremy Board, and
Kyle Moss
,
Network of Wireless Gamma Ray Sensors for Radiological Detection and Identification
at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, April 2007
Alexander Barzilov, Jeremy Board, .
Professor Drebins Executive MBA students were recently discussing t.docxdessiechisomjj4
Professor Drebin's Executive MBA students were recently discussing the benefits of a chart of accounts. Following is a transcript of the discussion. Most of the comments were correct, but two students were off base. Assume the role of Professor Drebin, and identify the two students whose statements are incorrect. Record your answer in Blackboard.
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Professional Legal Issues with Medical and Nursing Professionals .docxdessiechisomjj4
"Professional Legal Issues with Medical and Nursing Professionals" Please respond to the following:
* From the scenario, analyze the different and overlapping general roles of physicians and nurses as they apply to professional credentialing and subsequent patient safety and satisfaction. Determine the major ways in which these overlapping roles may help play a part in health professional credentialing processes and conduct, and identify and analyze the ethical role these influences play in health care.
Analyze the major professional roles played by physicians and nurses as they apply to physicians’ conduct in the medical arena and to nurses in the role of adjuncts to physicians. Evaluate the degree and quality of care that physicians, nurses, and medical technologists provide in their primary roles, including, but not limited to, patient safety and satisfaction as required in 21st Century U.S. hospitals.
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Prof Washington, ScenarioHere is another assignment I need help wi.docxdessiechisomjj4
Prof Washington, Scenario
Here is another assignment I need help with. I know the scenario is the same as before but now we need to come up with the project management plan. The Scenario is
You have been asked to be the project manager for the development of an information technology (IT) project. The system to be developed will allow a large company to coordinate and maintain records of the professional development of its employees. The company has over 30,000 employees who are located in four sites: Florida, Colorado, Illinois, and Texas. The system needs to allow employees to locate and schedule professional development activities that are relevant to their positions. Sophisticated search capabilities are required, and the ability to add scheduled events to the employees’ calendars is desired. The system needs to support social networking to allow employees to determine who is attending conferences and events. This will promote fostering relationships and ensure coverage of conferences that are considered of high importance.
Once an activity has been completed, employees will use the system to submit the documentation. The system should support notifications to management personnel whenever their direct reports have submitted documentation. The system should also notify employees if their deadline to complete professional development requirements is approaching and is not yet satisfied.
Project Scope Management Plan
For the given scenario, create a project scope management plan that will detail how the project scope will be defined, managed, and controlled to prevent scope creep. The plan may also include how the scope will be communicated to all stakeholders.
Project Scope
After you have the project scope management plan developed, define the project scope.
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Prof James Kelvin onlyIts just this one and simple question 1.docxdessiechisomjj4
Prof James Kelvin only
It's just this one and simple question
1. This week we begin focusing on PowerPoint. When you create a PowerPoint presentation, there are many elements included such as: theme, transitions, images, font, color, content layout, etc. List and explain four guidelines you learned about how to create a successful PowerPoint presentation. Additionally, describe some common mistakes that are made when PowerPoint presentations are created.
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Product life cycle for album and single . sales vs time ( 2 pa.docxdessiechisomjj4
Product life cycle for album and single .
sales vs time ( 2 pages not less with chart for each album and singles
Album
introduction,
growth
, maturity
, decline .
Singles
introduction,
growth
, maturity
, decline
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Produce the following components as the final draft of your health p.docxdessiechisomjj4
Produce the following components as the final draft of your health promotion program written proposal;
1. Introduction to the Program project.
2. Epidemiological and Needs Assessments Summary
3. Risk Factors, Goals, Objectives and Educational Plans
4. Marketing Plans and Proposed Budget
5. Evaluation Plans
6. Leadership Needs and Collaborative Strategies
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Produce a preparedness proposal the will recommend specific steps th.docxdessiechisomjj4
Produce a preparedness proposal the will recommend specific steps that could potentially reduce (mitigate) the loss of life and property resulting from you climate impact or natural hazard. The proposal should target a specific person, agency, municipality or organization responsible for emergency mitigation efforts. Seven sections should be labelled as indicated in bold and address the following:
Specifically Identify and state who is the intended audience for your proposal (Target audience)
Identify and describe the climate impact or natural hazard (Hazard)
Identify and explain the risk associated with your specific geographic location (Location)
Describe the atmospheric and geologic conditions or processes that give rise to the impact or hazard (Earth processes)
Describe ways in which human and environmental processes contribute to the impact or hazard (Human processes)
Discuss past impact/hazard events and mitigation or communication policies and their effectiveness (Past events/policies)
Recommend ethically and socially responsible ways to improve current mitigation and communication policies (Proposal)
Make sure and answer according to the bolded labels (Target audience, Hazard, etc.) Responses should be brief, except for your Proposal recommendation. If you have completed the Milestones as directed the majority of this information should already exist!
1. The preparedness proposal should focus on COMMUNICATING the science information to the target audience
2. The proposal MUST include at least two data sources supporting your recommendations and be represented in a graphical format
3. The proposal must be double spaced, size 12 font
4. The proposal must list references/citations where appropriate
1.5-2page.
China Gansu
mudslides. Read mileston I write fist. here will have the information you need use in that paper.
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
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1. Step 1: Engage Stakeholders
The first step in the CDC Framework approach to program
evaluation is to engage the
stakeholders. Stakeholders are people or organizations that are
invested in the program, are
interested in the results of the evaluation, and/or have a stake in
what will be done with the
results of the evaluation. Representing their needs and interests
throughout the process is
fundamental to good program evaluation.
Typical Stakeholders in Public Health
Key stakeholders for evaluations of public health programs fall
into three major groups:
• Those involved in program operations: Management, program
staff, partners, funding
agencies, and coalition members.
• Those served or affected by the program: Patients or clients,
advocacy groups,
community members, and elected officials.
• Those who are intended users of the evaluation findings:
Persons in a position to make
decisions about the program, such as partners, funding agencies,
coalition members, and
the general public or taxpayers.
2. Clearly, these categories are not mutually exclusive; in
particular, the primary users of
evaluation findings are often members of the other two groups,
i.e., the program management or
an advocacy organization or coalition. While you may think
you know your stakeholders well,
these categories help you to think broadly and inclusively in
identifying stakeholders.
Potential Stakeholders in Public Health Programs
• Program managers and staff.
• Local, state, and regional coalitions interested in the public
health issue.
• Local grantees of your funds.
• Local and national advocacy partners.
• Other funding agencies, such as national and state
governments.
• State or local health departments and health commissioners.
• State education agencies, schools, and other educational
groups.
• Universities and educational institutions.
• Local government, state legislators, and state governors.
• Privately owned businesses and business associations.
• Health care systems and the medical community.
• Religious organizations.
• Community organizations.
• Private citizens.
• Program critics.
• Representatives of populations disproportionately affected by
the problem.
• Law enforcement representatives.
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Why Stakeholders are Important to an Evaluation
Stakeholders can help (or hinder) an evaluation before it is
conducted, while it is being
conducted, and after the results are collected and ready for use.
Because so many public health
efforts are complex and because public health agencies may be
several layers removed from
frontline implementation, stakeholders take on particular
importance in ensuring that the right
evaluation questions are identified and that evaluation results
will be used to make a difference.
Stakeholders are much more likely to support the evaluation and
act on the results and
recommendations if they are involved in the evaluation process.
Conversely, without
stakeholder support, your evaluation may be ignored, criticized,
resisted, or even sabotaged.
In reviewing the long list of stakeholders that might be
generated in the three generic categories,
use of some or all of the evaluation standards will help identify
those who matter most.
Use of results will be enhanced if you give priority to those
stakeholders who
• Can increase the credibility of your efforts or your evaluation
• Are responsible for day-to-day implementation of the
activities that are part of the
4. program
• Will advocate for or authorize changes to the program that the
evaluation may
recommend
• Will fund or authorize the continuation or expansion of the
program.
In addition, to be proper/ethical and accurate, you need to
include those who participate in the
program and are affected by the program or its evaluation.
The worksheets at the end of this chapter are intended to help
you identify key stakeholders. For
example, in using the worksheets with the Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention (CLPP)
program, we identified the stakeholders in the sample worksheet
1A (see Table 1.1). Note that
some stakeholders appear in more than one column; these are
not exclusive classes of
stakeholders so much as four ways of thinking about
stakeholders to ensure we were thinking as
broadly as possible. Second, note that not all categories have
the same number of stakeholders.
Indeed, for a simple project, there may be very few stakeholders
and some categories may have
none at all. The sample worksheet 1B (see Table 1.2) helped us
identify the perspectives and
needs of these key stakeholders and the implications for
designing and implementing our
evaluation. Note in the CLPP example that while all
stakeholders may applaud our efforts to
reduce EBLL in children, several stakeholders put priority on
outcomes that might or might not
agree with our priorities. For example, private physicians are
most interested in “yield” of their
5. screening efforts, while Congress cares about cost-
effectiveness. Note that advocacy groups, in
addition to specific outcomes that may be priorities for them,
also have some preferences related
to data collection—expressing a preference for methods other
than surveys. All of these insights
are helpful at the start of an evaluation to ensure that the
evaluation goes smoothly and the
results are used.
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Table 1.1
CLPP Example: Identifying Stakeholders
Who are the key stakeholders we need to:
Increase credibility of
our efforts
Implement the
interventions that are
central to this effort
Advocate for changes
to institutionalize this
effort
Fund/authorize
continuation or
expansion of this
6. effort
Physician associations
Community
associations
State and local health
departments
Housing authorities
Advocacy groups
Maternal and child
health groups
Physician associations
Community
associations
Legislators and
policymakers at federal
and state levels
CDC
Private industry
Court system
Table 1.2
CLPP Example: What Matters to Stakeholders
7. Stakeholders What component of intervention/outcome matters
most to them
1 Physician associations Sufficient “yield” of EBLL children to
make their screening
efforts “worth their time.”
Clear referral mechanisms that are easy and work.
2 Community associations Cleaning up housing in their
neighborhood.
Support for families with EBLL children.
3 Housing authorities No additional monetary and time burden
for toxic clean-ups.
4 State and local health
departments
Efforts lead to improved health outcome for EBLL children.
5 Advocacy groups EBLL is seen as a housing problem and not
a “failure” or
example of bad child-rearing by poor families.
No survey data collection with families.
6 Congress and policymakers Efforts lead to improved health
outcomes.
“Cost-effectiveness” of the effort.
What to Ask Stakeholders
Throughout the evaluation planning process, you will be asking
some or all stakeholders the
following questions:
• Who do you represent and why are you interested in this
8. program?
• What is important about this program to you?
• What would you like this program to accomplish?
• How much progress would you expect this program to have
made at this time?
• What do you see as the critical evaluation questions at this
time?
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• How will you use the results of this evaluation?
• What resources (i.e., time, funds, evaluation expertise, access
to respondents, and access
to policymakers) might you contribute to this evaluation effort?
The Role of Stakeholders in an Evaluation
Stakeholder perspectives may influence every step of the CDC
Framework. Obviously,
stakeholder input in “describing the program” ensures a clear
and consensual understanding of
the program’s activities and outcomes. This is an important
backdrop for even more valuable
stakeholder input in “focusing the evaluation design” to ensure
that the key questions of most
importance will be included. Stakeholders may also have
insights or preferences on the most
effective and appropriate ways to collect data from target
respondents. In “justifying
conclusions,” the perspectives and values that stakeholders
bring to the project are explicitly
acknowledged and honored in making judgments about evidence
9. gathered. Finally, the
considerable time and effort spent in engaging and building
consensus among stakeholders pays
off in the last step, “ensuring use,” because stakeholder
engagement has created a market for the
evaluation results. Stakeholders can be involved in the
evaluation at various levels. For
example, you may want to include coalition members on an
evaluation team and engage them in
developing questions, data collection, and analysis. Or consider
ways to assess your partners’
needs and interests in the evaluation, and develop means of
keeping them informed of its
progress and integrating their ideas into evaluation activities.
Again, stakeholders are more
likely to support the evaluation and act on results and
recommendations if they are involved in
the evaluation process.
In addition, it can be beneficial to engage your program’s critics
in the evaluation. In some
cases, these critics can help identify issues around your program
strategies and evaluation
information that could be attacked or discredited, thus helping
you strengthen the evaluation
process. This information might also help you and others
understand the opposition’s rationale
and could help you engage potential agents of change within the
opposition. However, use
caution: It is important to understand the motives of the
opposition before engaging them in any
meaningful way.
This emphasis on engaging stakeholders mirrors the increasing
prominence in the research
community of participatory models or “action” research. A
10. participatory approach combines
systematic inquiry with the collaboration of diverse
stakeholders to meet specific needs and to
contend with broad issues of equity and justice. As noted
earlier, The Study of Participatory
Research in Health Promotion, commissioned by the Royal
Society of Canada, has published a
set of guidelines for use by evaluators and funding agencies in
assessing projects that aspire to be
participatory.25 The guidelines emphasize that traditional ways
of conducting health research in
populations must adapt to meet the educational, capacity-
building, and policy expectations of
more participatory approaches if the results of the research are
to make a difference.
25 Green LW, George MA, Daniel M, Frankish CJ, Herbert CP,
Bowie WR, et al. op cit.
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Standards for Step 1: Engage Stakeholders
Standard Questions
Utility • Who will use these results?
Feasibility • How much time and effort can be devoted to
stakeholder engagement?
Propriety • Which stakeholders need to be consulted to conduct
11. an ethical evaluation, for example, to ensure we will
identify negative as well as positive aspects of the
program?
Accuracy • How broadly do we need to engage stakeholders to
paint an accurate picture of this program?
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Checklist for Engaging Stakeholders
Identify stakeholders, using the three broad categories
discussed: those affected, those
involved in operations, and those who will use the evaluation
results.
Review the initial list of stakeholders to identify key
stakeholders needed to improve
credibility, implementation, advocacy, or funding/authorization
decisions.
Engage individual stakeholders and/or representatives of
stakeholder organizations.
12. Create a plan for stakeholder involvement and identify areas
for stakeholder input.
Target selected stakeholders for regular participation in key
steps, including writing the
program description, suggesting evaluation questions, choosing
evaluation questions,
and disseminating evaluation results.
Worksheet 1A
Identifying Key Stakeholders
Category Stakeholders
1 Who is affected by the program?
2 Who is involved in program operations?
3 Who will use evaluation results?
13. Which of these are key stakeholders we need to engage to:
Increase credibility of our
evaluation
Implement the interventions that
are central to this evaluation
Advocate for changes to
institutionalize the evaluation
findings
Fund/authorize the continuation
or expansion of the program
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Worksheet 1B
What Matters to Stakeholders
14. Stakeholders What activities and/or outcomes of this program
matter most to them?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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EVALUATING APPROPRIATE ANTIBIOTIC USE
PROGRAMS
Step 1: Engage Stakeholders
Stakeholders for appropriate antibiotic use programs may
include:
Those involved in program operations:
15. • Program managers and staff
• Local, state, and regional coalitions interested in reducing
inappropriate antibiotic use
• State and local health departments
• Funding agencies, such as national and state governments
Those served or affected by the program:
• Physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other
healthcare providers
• Healthcare systems and the medical community
• Managed care organizations and healthcare delivery
organizations
• Healthcare insurers and insurer organizations
• Schools and educational groups
• Universities and educational institutions
• Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs)
• Childcare providers and organizations of childcare providers
• Community organizations
• Consumer advocacy groups
• Patients and the general public
The intended users of the evaluation results will vary with each
specific evaluation, and often the
users comprise a subset of the individuals and groups listed in
the prior two categories. Hence,
the many potential users of a specific evaluation’s results might
include:
• Program managers and staff
• Local, state, and regional coalitions interested in reducing
inappropriate antibiotic use
• State and local health departments
• Funding agencies, such as national and state governments
16. Why Stakeholders Matter
Evaluations of appropriate antibiotic use efforts, like
evaluations of other public health efforts,
will benefit greatly from the involvement of diverse groups of
partners and stakeholders. When
appropriate antibiotic use programs are planned and
implemented by coalitions, coalition
members should also be engaged in the planning and
implementation of the program’s
evaluation. Target populations such as patients and providers
should be involved in program
evaluation to ensure that the evaluation focus meets their needs
and that the evaluation is ethical.
Engaging target populations in planning evaluation activities
will also help ensure that the
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evaluation is feasible and accurate. For example, patient
questionnaires will yield much better
information on patients’ knowledge and attitudes if groups of
patients have reviewed the
questions to make sure they are clear and understandable.
Similarly, providers will be far more
likely to complete a questionnaire if they have helped design a
plan for implementation that does
not disrupt clinic flow.
Often, groups of stakeholders will define program success
17. differently; therefore, it is important
to understand stakeholders’ different interests and expectations
from the start. Worksheet 1B can
help you determine which components of the program and which
outcomes matter most to
various stakeholders. Epidemiologists and other health
department staff may assume that a
“successful” program would result in reductions in antibiotic
resistance rates or slower increases
in these rates as compared to a control group. Managed care
organizations and other health
delivery organizations may look to reduced costs as a measure
of success (e.g., decreased
prescriptions for antibiotics or decreased number of office
visits) in addition to improvements in
quality of care. Health educators often look at changes in
knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors as
indicators of success, especially when these intermediate
outcomes are quicker to change or
easier to measure than more long-term outcomes.
The Role of Stakeholders in Program Evaluation
As discussed earlier, stakeholders can be involved at various
levels of program evaluation.
Stakeholders can contribute to the program description, suggest
or choose evaluation questions,
and disseminate evaluation results. Including stakeholders can
inspire a change in focus during
program planning or program evaluation. For example, a group
of healthcare providers may cite
high patient demand for antibiotics when describing the problem
of antibiotic resistance and
inappropriate antibiotic use. Their definition of the problem
might lead to a program based on
18. educating consumers about the risks of overuse of antibiotics.
If consumers were involved in
efforts to define the problem, the resulting program could look
quite different. Consumers may
say that their medical providers don’t listen to their complaints
or explain their diagnosis and
treatment and that they feel rushed by short office visits. While
consumer education would still
be an important component, consumer input to the definition of
the problem illustrates the need
to examine the structure of office visits as well as provider
skills in communicating with patients.
Stakeholders can also play an important role in crafting
evaluation tools. Healthcare providers
can provide useful insight when drafting and selecting
evaluation questions for participants in
provider education components of appropriate antibiotic use
programs. Finally, stakeholders can
play key roles in disseminating evaluation results. For example,
professional medical societies
and managed care organizations can distribute evaluation
findings to providers through
newsletters, mailings, and other contact with members.
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