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Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills

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Review the following video and the resources:

LSUcas. (2012, September 25). Bloom’s Taxonomy [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfp3x_qx5IM
Objectives Builder. Retrieved from http://teachonline.asu.edu/objectives-builder/

Teaching to higher order thinking skills requires more extensive learning activities. How might you use Bloom’s taxonomy in developing lessons to teach to the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy pyramid (Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation?). What technology can you use to extend and expand the lesson to involve more cognitive processes?

Cooperative Learning

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Our text states, “Combining computers with cooperative learning strategies promotes greater quantity and quality of daily achievement, more successful problem solving, and higher performance on factual recognition, application, and problem-solving text items than do computers and competition or computers and individualized learning.”

With that in mind, explore the National Education Association (NEA) website and review the Common Core State Standards Tool kit (or another website that offers lesson plans utilizing technology) that has elements that can be adapted to your Final Project lesson idea. Address the following:

Explain how you would rework this lesson to build an atmosphere that encourages participation and cooperation.
How would you integrate technology into the lesson? Stretch your ideas beyond PowerPoint, word processing or graphics programs. Consider online games, science simulation, comic generators, video and voice over the Internet, mobile applications, or other exciting new technologies available for teaching and learning.
How would you develop a cooperative environment around use of the technology you selected

Ashford BUS 630 Week 3 Assignment

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Glasier Health Products

In this case, management needs assistance in evaluating and classifying costs identified within Glaser Health Products in order to implement an activity-based costing system. Please address Questions 1 through 6 at the end of the case. Based on the case questions, you are required to provide a two to four double-spaced written report providing management with the necessary guidance in implementing an activity-based costing system. The written report should be properly formatted according to APA guidelines and demonstrate research and critical thinking skills. Explanations and recommendations should be supported by at least 3 scholarly sources from the Ashford Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook.

For Questions 1 through 3, create a chart to classify and identify a cost driver for each of the costs provided in the text. The chart should be included as an appendix to the written report. Explanations of the classifications and identifications within the chart should be included within the written report, supported by references to the appendix.

Questions 4 through 6 should be addressed in fully developed explanations/instructions as part of your written report. The written analysis should be supported by at least three scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.

Week 3 Written Assignment should:

Demonstrate graduate level work including appropriate research and critical thinking skills.
Be presented as a written analysis (not a question/answer format).
Incorporate case questions into the overall analysis.
Follow APA formatting guidelines including title page, reference page and in-text citations.
Consists of two to four double-spaced pages of content.
Provide at least three scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.

Refrence:

Schneider (2012). Managerial accounting: Decision making for the service and manufacturing sectors. (2012). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Critically Evaluating the Internet

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Review some of the resources available on Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Critical Evaluation Retrieved from http://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html, including these:

But I found it on the Internet!
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
WSI: Web Site Investigator: Information Forensics

Discuss the following:

When considering the five criteria for evaluating web pages, which of the criteria do you feel you used regularly, which will you begin to use more carefully?

Accuracy
Authority.
Objectivity.
Currency.
Coverage.

How important is it to your learners that the websites they are viewing stand up to critical evaluation? How would you encourage them to become more thoughtful of the information they find on the Internet?

Ashford BUS 630 Week 3 Assignment

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Glasier Health Products

In this case, management needs assistance in evaluating and classifying costs identified within Glaser Health Products in order to implement an activity-based costing system. Please address Questions 1 through 6 at the end of the case. Based on the case questions, you are required to provide a two to four double-spaced written report providing management with the necessary guidance in implementing an activity-based costing system. The written report should be properly formatted according to APA guidelines and demonstrate research and critical thinking skills. Explanations and recommendations should be supported by at least 3 scholarly sources from the Ashford Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook.

For Questions 1 through 3, create a chart to classify and identify a cost driver for each of the costs provided in the text. The chart should be included as an appendix to the written report. Explanations of the classifications and identifications within the chart should be included within the written report, supported by references to the appendix.

Questions 4 through 6 should be addressed in fully developed explanations/instructions as part of your written report. The written analysis should be supported by at least three scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.

Week 3 Written Assignment should:

Demonstrate graduate level work including appropriate research and critical thinking skills.
Be presented as a written analysis (not a question/answer format).
Incorporate case questions into the overall analysis.
Follow APA formatting guidelines including title page, reference page and in-text citations.
Consists of two to four double-spaced pages of content.
Provide at least three scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.

Refrence:

Schneider (2012). Managerial accounting: Decision making for the service and manufacturing sectors. (2012). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Critically Evaluating the Internet

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Review some of the resources available on Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Critical Evaluation Retrieved from http://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html, including these:

But I found it on the Internet!
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
WSI: Web Site Investigator: Information Forensics

Discuss the following:

When considering the five criteria for evaluating web pages, which of the criteria do you feel you used regularly, which will you begin to use more carefully?

Accuracy
Authority.
Objectivity.
Currency.
Coverage.

How important is it to your learners that the websites they are viewing stand up to critical evaluation? How would you encourage them to become more thoughtful of the information they find on the Internet?

Biology

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A group of 10 overweight patients have increased levels of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. Based on this limited information and using the scientific method:

I. Develop a question followed by a hypothesis. Then . .

II. Design a brief experiment to test your hypothesis (make sure to indicate a control) and describe predicted results.

Week 5 Final paper PSY330

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Ashford 6: – Week 5 – Final Paper

Integrative Personality Theory

This assignment calls for you to employ what Gordon Allport (1968) called systematic eclecticism. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the section entitled “Convergence of Theories: Eclecticism, Integration, and Unification” in Chapter 1 of your text.

During this course, you have explored seven major models describing the development of personality. Each of these models is based on the ideas of numerous theorists who, while distinct, share commonalities. The course has presented the roles of genetics and environment and has included a discussion of epigenetics. It has also covered definitions of normal and abnormal personality. It is likely you have found yourself drawn to some theories and concepts, but others may not have seemed as relevant to you in describing personality. In this paper, you will create your own theory of personality development by synthesizing the concepts and constructs of all the theories that seem most accurate and appropriate to you and by using those concepts to reflect on your own personality and development.

Identify at least one major concept from each of the seven models of personality studied in the course that resonated most meaningfully with you. Research a minimum of eight scholarly sources related to these concepts in the Ashford University Library to support your statements in the paper. Popular websites and your textbook may augment, but they will not count toward, the minimum number of sources needed for the paper.

The following content and headings must be included in your paper. Please visit the Ashford Writing Center for guidance on how to format headings in APA Style. Also, please take note of the suggestions provided for the length for each section in the instructions below.

Instructions:

Provide a general introduction to the topic of theories of personality. Explain what you plan to cover and describe the direction your paper will take. This section will not feature a heading, and it will be approximately two to three paragraphs.

Major Concepts

In this section, you will present the specific concepts identified from the seven models you think best apply to the study of personality in distinct subheadings. These will be the concepts used as the basis for your personal theory of personality development. For each concept subheading, identify the major personality model from which the concept was taken as well as the theorist associated with that model. Provide an analysis for each of the seven concepts chosen describing how each explains personality as well as the development of healthy and unhealthy personality traits. This section will be approximately four to five pages.

Excluded Concepts

In this section, compare and contrast the concepts you have chosen to include in your theory of personality development with those you have chosen exclude. Reflect on the basic assumptions that define personality and identify three specific excluded concepts from any of the theories studied in the course. For each of the excluded concepts, provide a rationale explaining the various aspects of the concept that make it unsuitable for your use. This section will be approximately four to six paragraphs.

The Roles of Heredity, the Environment, and Epigenetics

Provide your analysis of the roles heredity, the environment, and epigenetics play in the development of personality. Discuss how heredity and the environment might affect personality disorders. This section will be approximately three to five paragraphs.

Assessment and Measurement of the Theory

Reflect on the major concepts you have selected for inclusion and provide a brief description about how those concepts are measured and/or assessed. Review the assessment sections of each chapter and discuss those measures you think are most applicable and effective. This section will be approximately three to five paragraphs.

Self-Reflection

In this section of the paper, review the self-reflection you wrote in Week One of this class and describe how and in what ways your views have changed. Analyze your Week One self-assessment using the concepts that you have included in your integrative theory and describe how your theory explains your personality. This section will be approximately four to six paragraphs.

Provide a brief conclusion that summarizes the ideas presented in your integrative theory of personality. This section will not feature a heading and it will be approximately two to four paragraphs.

Allport, G. W. (1968). The person in psychology: Selected essays. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

The Integrative Personality Theory paper:

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page and references page) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least eight scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Comparing Healthcare Systems

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1) Our environment can negatively affect our health in many ways. Choose an environmental health issue from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health (http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/). Briefly describe the problem and the negative health effects it creates.

What programs are available in your community to address the chosen environmental health problem? How can this environmental issue in your community spread and cause potential problems on a global scale?

2) Do you think that quality would be adversely impacted if the growth in medical technology were to be constrained in the United States? If costs are reduced, and more people could have access, do you think that this is a reasonable trade-off?

3)

i) How does the other country’s system work and how is it funded? Do the funding mechanisms work well in your view? (You might want to look at taxation rates.) Have there been implications to the country’s wider economy as a result of the cost of the system? Are they positive or negative?

ii) What is the ratio of physicians to the population, and how are they compensated? At what levels?

iii) What, if any, delivery shortcomings are experienced?

IV) How is technology distributed? Is the emphasis of the system on preventive care or acute care?

V) How do the cultural aspects of this society play into health care outcomes?

VI) How does this nation’s health care system compare against that of the U.S., in terms of cost, services, technology, and health outcomes?

The country in question is Germany for the 3rd question

RESEARCH PAPER

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Some argue that renewable energy protects the environment and that the government should, therefore, offer subsidies and incentives for manufacturers and consumers who support energy efficiency. Alternatively, some studies indicate that renewable energy sources do not have a positive impact on the environment due to the pollution caused by manufacturing. Based on your research, establish your own position on government subsidies and incentives for renewable energy in a clearly stated thesis. Are renewable energy subsidies and incentives a concern? Why or why not? Explain and defend your position.

Must have a body length of five to seven double-spaced pages formatted according to APA style
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought, well-supported claims, and properly cited evidence.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Must use and cite at least five scholarly sources