Select two policies for examination from the list that follows. You can select from other types of income support policies; however, be sure to submit your choices to the facilitator for validation before continuing with this assignment.

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Assignment 2: Income Support Policies

In this assignment, you must examine the philosophical underpinnings of the economic system and its relationship to ethics and social justice by examining income support policies. You will also view the socially constructed ways of developing and distributing resources and implementing societal values. You will examine the “problem of justice” by considering the following:

  • The distribution of goods and services
  • An individual’s share in goods and services
  • The allocation of rights and duties

Research income support policies using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

Select two policies for examination from the list that follows. You can select from other types of income support policies; however, be sure to submit your choices to the facilitator for validation before continuing with this assignment.

  • Social Security
  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Then, compare and contrast the selected income support policies. Address the following:

  • List and describe each income support policy’s target population, means of funding, and intended outcomes.
  • Explain the positions a conservative politician or commentator, and a liberal politician would take on the policy. Address anything they might have in common ideologically and also describe their differences.
  • Give reasons and examples in support of your analysis.

Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.doc.

Summarize the implications of labelling and mislabeling individuals in your assigned age group as a result of testing and assessment.

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Debating Ability Testing

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapters 5 and 6 in the textbook and the required articles for this week, and view the IQ: A history of deceit (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video.

For your initial post, you will present at least two viewpoints debating professional approaches to assessment used in psychology for your assigned age group. Please see the list below for your assigned age group. In addition to the required reading, research a minimum of one peer-reviewed article from the Ashford University Library on ability testing research at is pertains to your assigned age group.

In your initial post, you must

  • Briefly compare and discuss at least two theories of intelligence and the contemporary assessment measures related to those theories.
  • Analyze challenges related to assessing individuals in your assigned age group and describe any special ethical and sociocultural issues which must be considered.
  • Analyze and provide evidence from validation studies supporting and opposing the use of specific instruments with your assigned population.
  • Present the pros and cons of individual versus group assessment of ability.
  • Summarize the implications of labelling and mislabeling individuals in your assigned age group as a result of testing and assessment.

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  • A through E: Preschool-aged children through age 7

Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers, at least of one whom was assigned a different age group than you, by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in this discussion. Be sure to review the assigned articles before constructing your reply.

Which of the assessment instruments presented by your classmate demonstrates the strongest validity, and which (if any) do not show strong validity for the age group being discussed? Were there appropriate age, socioeconomic, language, and/or cultural considerations your classmate did not mention but should have been included in her or his initial post? What ethical consideration(s), in addition to those mentioned by your classmate, might you recommend be included? Provide a rationale for the inclusion of these considerations. Use information from the required resources as well as any other appropriate peer-reviewed articles to support your statements. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST) on Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.

Describe the three most useful sources of information that you will take away from the course

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In your initial post, evaluate the report in terms of readability, design, and content, including the following:

  • Which design elements make it easy or difficult to find and understand information?
  • Does it make clear the focus and rationale of the study?
  • Which stakeholders does it seem to be addressed to? How can you tell? Should it have been positioned to reach other stakeholders as well?
  • Does it clearly communicate sound design and implementation? Describe.
  • Which methods of sampling, data collection, and measurement were used?
  • Are findings presented clearly?
  • Are questions of cost effectiveness of the program addressed? How? Can you think of important questions that were not addressed?
  • Are the interpretation findings and recommendations well supported?

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2 Reflect on what you have learned in the course. Describe the three most useful sources of information that you will take away from the course. Discuss how you will utilize this information in fulfilling your work as a scholar and practitioner in the field of program evaluation.

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3 Consultant

 

For this discussion post, address each of the following:

  • If you had to summarize your learning from this course in just three words, what would they be, and why?
  • What is the most important insight you are taking from this course?
  • What questions do you have about pursuing a career in consulting psychology

Create one 10-12-slide PowerPoint presentation (in addition to a title slide and references slide) outlining an intervention for each case study.

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Read the following case studies:

  1. Case Study: Joshua
  2. Case Study: Desert Viejo Elementary School

Create one 10-12-slide PowerPoint presentation (in addition to a title slide and references slide) outlining an intervention for each case study. One of the interventions must include Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). It is up to you to decide which type of intervention is best suited for each scenario. Include the following in your interventions:

  1. Step-by-step description of each intervention plan
  2. Rationale for choosing each intervention
  3. Community resources that are available in your local community that you would include as part of an intervention for each scenario

Include a minimum of three scholarly references in addition to the textbook.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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Unsatisfactory
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Less than Satisfactory
74.00%3
Satisfactory
79.00%4
Good
87.00%5
Excellent
100.00%100.0 %Criteria 20.0 %Step-by-step description of each intervention planDoes not demonstrate an understanding of the assignment directions; does not describe steps of each intervention plan.Includes limited understanding of the assignment directions. Describes steps of each intervention plan, but the description is irrelevant or incorrect.Provides a relevant, but cursory description of each intervention plan. The information lacks the depth necessary to fully illustrate the steps of the intervention plan.Provides a relevant, thorough description that fully illustrates the steps of each intervention plan.Provides a relevant, thorough description that fully illustrates the steps of each intervention plan and supports the information provided with examples and scholarly references.15.0 %Rationale for choosing each interventionDoes not demonstrate an understanding of the assignment directions; does not provide a rationale for choosing each intervention.Includes limited understanding of the assignment directions. Provides a rational for choosing each intervention, but the rational provided does not support the selection of the intervention.Provides a relevant, but cursory discussion of the rational for choosing each intervention. Discussion lacks the depth necessary to fully support the reasoning behind the intervention selection.Provides a relevant, thorough discussion that fully supports the reasoning behind the intervention selection.Provides a relevant, thorough discussion that fully supports the reasoning behind the intervention selection, and the rationale is supported with examples and scholarly references.5.0 %Community resources that are available in your local community that you would include as part of an intervention for each scenarioDoes not demonstrate an understanding of the assignment directions; does not provide community resources to be included in the interventions.Includes limited understanding of the assignment directions. Provides community resources, but they are not relevant to the interventions.Provides community resources that are relevant to the situation, but fails to clearly link the rationale behind including the community resources in the interventions.Provides community resources that are relevant to the situation and clearly links the rationale behind including the community resources in the interventions.Provides community resources that are relevant to the situation; clearly links the rationale behind including the community resources in the interventions, and supports the selection of community resources with examples and scholarly references.30.0 %Presentation of ContentThe content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information. Includes little persuasive information. Sequencing of ideas is unclear.The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose. Includes some persuasive information.The presentation slides are generally competent, but ideas may show some inconsistency in organization and/or in their relationships to each other.The content is written with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information exhibiting a unity, coherence, and cohesiveness. Includes persuasive information from reliable sources.The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.10.0 %LayoutThe layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings, and subheadings to enhance the readability. The text is extremely difficult to read with long blocks of text, small point size for fonts, and inappropriate contrasting colors. Poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting is evident.The layout shows some structure, but appears cluttered and busy or distracting with large gaps of white space or a distracting background. Overall readability is difficult due to lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background, overuse of bold, or lack of appropriate indentations of text.The layout uses horizontal and vertical white space appropriately. Sometimes the fonts are easy to read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, long paragraphs, color, or busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.The layout background and text complement each other and enable the content to be easily read. The fonts are easy to read and point size varies appropriately for headings and text.The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.10.0 %Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.)Inappropriate word choice and lack of variety in language use are evident. Writer appears to be unaware of audience. Use of primer prose indicates writer either does not apply figures of speech or uses them inappropriately.Some distracting inconsistencies in language choice (register) and/or word choice are present. The writer exhibits some lack of control in using figures of speech appropriately.Language is appropriate to the targeted audience for the most part.The writer is clearly aware of audience, uses a variety of appropriate vocabulary for the targeted audience, and uses figures of speech to communicate clearly.The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.5.0 %Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)Slide errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning.Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader.Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but are not overly distracting to the reader.Slides are largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present.Writer is clearly in control of standard, written academic English.5.0 %Evaluating and Documenting Sources (in-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes, references page listing and formatting, as appropriate to assignment and style)Contains no title slide, no references section, and no correctly cited references within the body of the presentation.Title slide is incomplete or inaccurate. References section includes sources, but many citation errors. Citations are included within the body of the presentation but with many errors.Title slide has minor errors. References section includes sources, but they are not consistently cited correctly. Citations are included within the body of the presentation but with some errors.Title slide is complete. References section includes correctly cited sources with minimal errors. Correct citations are included within the body of the presentation.Title slide is complete. References section includes correctly cited sources. Correct citations are included within the body of the presentation.100 %Total Weightage