Based on your choice of design, what might be some shortcomings or possible confounds?

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For this assignment, you are being asked to prepare an APA-style research proposal on a topic in psychology. The objective of this assignment is to encourage you to think about a problem, phenomenon, or treatment of interest to you that can be tested through an empirical approach, and apply the concepts we’ve discussed all semester to design a strong research proposal. Proposals must include the following components:
1) An Introduction (i.e., literature review): This section provides the background literature and rationale for your proposed study. It should include summaries of studies related to your topic (i.e., that support the rationale for investigating your topic) with proper APA-style citations. This section should be about 4-6 pages.
2) Statement of Purpose and Hypotheses: At the end of your Introduction section, you should include a final paragraph that includes a statement describing the design and purpose of your proposed study, as well as your hypotheses (i.e., what you expect to find). For example, you might state something like: “Past research has shown … but the reasons for … remain unclear. Therefore, the purpose of the current proposal is to examine … in a (experimental or observational or survey or quasi-experimental or longitudinal, etc.) study”. You will end this section by making specific predictions: “I hypothesize that …”
3) Proposed Methods: This section of the proposal includes 3 subsections: Participants, Measures, and Procedures. The Participants section includes information about how participants will be recruited; eligibility criteria (inclusion/exclusion criteria); # of participants expected to participate; # of males/females, age range, etc; incentives for participation. The Measures section includes information about questionnaires participants would complete or equipment that they would use in the course of the study. Questionnaires should include a reference and a description of the important elements (e.g., reference to their utility/validity/reliability for the intended purpose, # of items, how it is administered; etc). If assessments involve an interview, these questions would be described here. The Procedure section includes a description of how the study would be conducted. This includes instructions to participants, how independent variables (IVs) will be manipulated, how dependent variables (DVs) will be measured, randomization procedures, descriptions of treatment, how often participants will be assessed, debriefing procedures, etc. This section should be about 4-6 pages.
4) Proposed Results: You are not collecting data for this assignment, so you have no results to report. However, in a proposed analysis section, you restate your hypotheses and explain the analyses you would use to test your hypotheses. You want to be specific about the type of analysis and which variables would be involved for each hypothesis. For example, you might say something like: “To test the hypothesis that … an Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was conducted with xxx as the independent variable (levels: xxx), xxx as the dependent variable, and xxx included as covariates.” This section will be rather brief, probably >1 page.
5) Potential Limitations: Although you should try your best to design the best possible study, remember that no study is perfect, and every choice we make as researchers can limit our internal or external validity. At the end of your paper, you should include some of the possible limitations of your research design. Based on your choice of design, what might be some shortcomings or possible confounds?
6) References: References must be primary, scholarly sources (largely empirical papers/journal articles) from the past 10-15 years. Plan to include at least 5-10 references. Please follow APA style for referencing.
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Some important notes:
1) Be sure to check out the guides on Blackboard for writing a good Introduction and Methods section. These guides will give you lots of important guidance, and if you follow them step-by-step, you will have a great proposal in no time!
2) Please follow APA style in terms of structure of the paper as well as referencing. Your textbook has good examples of APA style, and I have put some guides on Blackboard. Other resources for this include the websites I posted on Blackboard and the APA manual, which is on reserve in the library.
3) The articles you read as part of your literature review will provide additional guidance in terms of what to include in the different sections of the proposal and how the sections of your proposal should be structured.
4) Research proposals must be typed in 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. In terms of the page limit, most papers should be at least 10 pages in lenght (10 pages of text, not including references), but may be longer in order to accomplish all of the goals of the proposal outlined above.
5) Grading: Proposals will be graded on 1) content (accura

.Summarize the key knowledge, skills and abilities that you believe are required for this position, based on information from O*Net and other sources.

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The Weston Family Practice Clinic is an outpatient facility that serves residents of suburban Denver. The clinic was started by the husband and wife team of Dr. Eric Weston and Dr. Emily Weston-Green. The two physicians opened the practice shortly after graduating from medical school at UCLA and completing a residency at University Hospital in Denver, Colorado. The couple decided to stay in Colorado because of the wonderful climate, the beautiful environment, and the supportive community they found for holistic family practice medicine.

When the couple first opened the clinic, they hired a nurse, two nursing assistants, and an office clerk to support them in their practice. Now, after seven years in operation, the clinic has grown appreciably, and the staff has expanded to include a third physician, Dr. Carl Anderson, two nurse practitioners who independently treat patients with minor health problems, three nurses, four nursing assistants, and four office clerks and a billing/insurance clerk.

While Dr. Emily Weston-Green has been the head medical officer at the clinic, Dr. Eric Weston has managed the office’s administrative and financial services. However, as the clinic has grown, the couple has recognized that they need to hire an Office Manager to oversee all non-medical aspects of the clinic. Their vision is that the new Office Manager will allow Dr. Eric Weston to concentrate on building the practice through affiliations and cooperative partnerships with other health care clinics, while Dr. Emily Green-Weston concentrates on maintaining a high level of patient service quality at the existing clinic. The couple hopes to add two additional physicians to the practice over the next five years, along with the necessary medical and office support staff to support the growing practice. There is additional office space available within the building that houses the existing clinic, so expansion in the same location would be extremely convenient and cost effective.

The new Office Manager will be responsible for overseeing the work of the five clerks who are responsible for office support services such as scheduling appointments, processing patients, requisitioning outside tests, x-rays and lab work, completing paperwork, billing insurance companies on behalf of patients, managing account receivable, maintaining medical records, and filing. The Office Manager will report to the chief physician, Dr. Emily Weston-Green, and will interact regularly with the Supervisor of Nursing Services, and the other nurses and physicians, as well as with administrative and health care personnel in other medical offices and clinics.

As an outside advisor, you have been asked to help the Weston Family Practice Clinic hire the new Office Manager. Using the resources of your Scott and Reynolds (2010) textbook, assigned journal articles, the O*Net website (http://www.onetonline.org/ (Links to an external site.)), and at least three additional academic sources, conduct a job analysis for the new Office Manager position and develop an assessment strategy for evaluating the qualifications of potential candidates for the position.

In a paper of at least 1750 – 2100 words (or 5 -7 pages) in length (excluding title, abstract, and reference pages), address the following:

a.Summarize the key knowledge, skills and abilities that you believe are required for this position, based on information from O*Net and other sources. (Note: you do not have to do an exhaustive job analysis or construct a full competency model.)

b.Based on the critical knowledge, skills and abilities you have identified for the Office Manager position, outline an approach for assessing potential candidates for the position. Include in your assessment approach the use of at least two formal assessment instruments, as well as other assessment approaches you believe would be valid ways of determining performance capabilities of candidates.

c.Support your approach by discussing the strategic link between competency modeling, assessment, and the organizational objectives of the Weston Family Practice Clinic.

What are examples of organizational or leadership practices that support humans as the most valuable resource?

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Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

  • If people are an organization’s most valuable resource, then a major role of a leader is to attract smart and talented people as well as raise the intellectual level in the organization. Based on your experiences and research, do most leaders approach human resources in this way? What are examples of organizational or leadership practices that support humans as the most valuable resource? What are examples of organizational or leadership practices that suggest humans are not the most valuable resource? Leadership lessons you can learn?
  • Development-minded organizations engage people and allow them to contribute to a winning team. In contrast, command-and-control hierarchies are typically misaligned, with one-way communication downward through the organization. Drawing from your experience and research, discuss specific examples of each approach (developmental versus command/control) to leadership. What are the possible outcomes of the different approaches? How does each impact the climate and culture of the organization?
  • One reason that leaders resist the idea of coaching is feelings of inadequacy. In other words, they don’t feel qualified to be a coach, usually because they aren’t sure they have enough subject matter expertise to provide the necessary answers. Does a coach need to be a subject expert (an expert in each function, process, or topic)? What advantages and disadvantages for coaching might be associated with being a subject expert? Instead of subject expert, what other term(s) might be a better description of a coach?
  • Consider any coaching that you have received that has been helpful to you in your career. What difference did it make? How would you describe both the results (actual changes to habits, roles, etc.) and the impact (psychological/emotional transformations)? Can you identify any missed opportunities because you did not receive coaching at a critical time? Leadership lessons you can learn?
  • Your response should be only 1 page

Identify or cite positive and negative aspects of test materials that minimize potentially offensive content or language. Explain.

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Evaluation of Test Materials and Procedures

In Unit 2, you selected one standardized test that has relevancy to your academic and professional goal and focused on the first four elements of the Code for selecting a test. In Unit 5, you focused on the fifth element of the Code, which involved analyzing the evidence for technical quality of your selected test.

In Chapters 7 and 8 of your Psychological Testing and Assessment text, you have been learning about test utility, test development, item analysis, and using tests in a variety of settings and with a variety of test takers. In this assignment, you will apply those concepts to your selected test for the Code’s sixth, seventh, and eighth elements. The Code (2004) states that test users, “(6) evaluate representative samples of test questions or practice tests, directions, answer sheets, manuals, and score reports before selecting a test; (7) evaluate procedures and materials used by the test developers, as well as the resulting test, to ensure that potentially offensive content or language is avoided; and (8) select tests with appropriately modified forms or administration procedures for test takes with disabilities who need special accommodations.”

For this assignment, locate a minimum of five resources (a minimum three peer-reviewed journal articles) pertaining to your test’s construction, item development, procedures utilized in construction to minimize offensive content, and provisions of modifications and accommodations for test takers. You will not be required or need to have a copy of your test to complete this assignment. You may use many different types of references and sources to obtain this information about your test. These references may include journal articles, literature reviews, MMY reviews, and publisher websites.

Information gathering and evaluation of these elements may require a keyword search within each relevant review and research article. It may be helpful to do keyword searches within those documents with the following words: format, fair, fairness, bias, appropriate, accommodations, modifications, and computer or computer assisted. Subsequently, this particular assignment requires a deeper search and provides a broader range of sources to fulfill the minimum references. In almost all cases, you will be able to locate some level of information on these elements.

For some newer test editions, literature may be scarce. Refer back to the Lists of Tests by Type document to see which tests are approved for supplementation with articles that address earlier editions of the tests. If the “Combined Review Allowed” column is marked “Yes,” you can supplement your review with articles addressing the designated prior version of the test.

Note: In future courses, you may use the Capella library’s Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles outside of the collection, but you should not have to use the service for this course. In the event that you cannot find articles covering a newer test edition, please refer to the List of Tests by Type document in the resources. Note which tests have been designated as acceptable for searching prior test editions.

If you are struggling with locating sufficient information about a particular test in regard to an element in this assignment, then you will need to cite the references or reviews involved in your search and identify this element as problematic for your selected test as it lacks sufficient documentation in the literature for this code or standard.

Compose your findings into a paper using the following outline (please use these headings):

1. Title page (required).

2. Abstract (optional).

3. Introduction: Identify the standardized test you selected in Unit 2, and its stated purpose.

4. Test items and format.

o Identify type or format of test items.

o Identify formats of the test that are available (including alternate forms, audio, computer, et cetera).

o Identify the types of scores obtained from the test. (Include information about norms.)

o Evaluate and identify or cite positive aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

o Evaluate and identify or cite negative aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

o Summarize the quality and appropriateness of the test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

5. Fair and appropriate materials.

o Identify or cite positive and negative aspects of test materials that minimize potentially offensive content or language. Explain.

o Identify or cite if the test allows appropriate modifications or accommodations. Explain how or why it does not allow such modifications or accommodations.

o Cite at least one AERA standard for Supporting Documentation for Tests (see Chapter 7 of your Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing text) that are implicated in either the positive or negative aspects of your selected test.

6. Use of technology.

o Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporated with your selected test to address test items and format.

o Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporate with your selected test to address fair and appropriate materials.

7. Synthesis of findings.

o Identify any major strengths you identified for your test in terms of test items and materials.

o Identify any weaknesses, even if they are relative, regarding your test in terms of test items and materials.

8. Conclusions and recommendations.

o Evaluate your selected test based on the strengths and weaknesses, and advantages and disadvantages of the test items, materials, and their appropriateness.

o Make at least three recommendations about improvements that could be considered to improve the test, if applicable. Cite standards (AERA) to support each recommendation.

9. References (required, use current APA format and style).

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

· References: A minimum of five references (a minimum of three peer-reviewed journal articles among the five).

· Length of paper: At least five pages (not including title page, abstract, or references).

Reference

Joint Committee on Testing Practices. (2004). Code of fair testing practices in education. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/fair-testing.pdf