It is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where you will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within your own career.

Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course(Inferential Statistics in Decision-making ) have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment(I am working at the moment). If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

•Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

•Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

•Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course(Inferential Statistics in Decision-making).

•Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

•You should NOT provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

•Submit your assignment by going to the Practical Connection link in the Assignment Folder on Blackboard.

7710 Question 1  

Misrepresentation by Noncertified Individuals

This discussion explores your responsibility to the BACB. Consider the following scenario:

You just started working at a facility that advertises it provides behavior analytic services to children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. You are earning great pay, and your supervisor seems very nice. However, you noticed on your supervisor’s business card that she lists that she is a “Board Certified Behavior Analyst.” However, she does not hold a certification in behavior analysis. You know this is a tough topic, as she has admitted to you she failed the exam twice.

Discuss the concerns and challenges you face in this situation. What does the compliance code suggest you do in this scenario?

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 Unit 8 Discussion Prompt 1COLLAPSE

If I was working for a facility that advertises that it provides behavior analytic services and my supervisor had a business card listing her as a BCBA when I know for a fact she is not, it is my ethical responsibility to report her to the BACB. Code 10.07 Discouraging Misrepresentation by Non-certified Individuals states that behavior analysts must report non-certified practitioners to the BACB and appropriate state licensing board. (Bailey & Burch, 2016)

Because this supervisor is nice and I like the job, this would be difficult. However, it is important to remember that what she is doing is unfair to the client and their families. I would not want to get surgery from an “almost doctor” or represented in court by an “almost lawyer”. The importance of becoming board certified is that clients and families can be assured their behavior analyst has the competence necessary to give the treatment they are advertising. I would give this supervisor a chance to report herself, but warn her that if she does not, I will. Then if I continued working for this facility, I would keep my eyes open. Negligence like that is often accompanied.

Bailey, J. & Burch, M. (2016). Ethics for behavior analysts. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.library.capella.edu

7711 Question 1 Reply to classmate

 
1 hour agoBlake Davis Blake Davis U8D1COLLAPSE

In the first example we have a teacher trying to determine if violent cartoons lead to aggressive behaviors in cartoon children. The experimenters use Alternating-Treatment Designs (ATD) design, which consists of two conditions occurring alternately in hopes to define a relationship between variables (Miltenberger, 2016). This type of design rules out all extraneous values as the type of values would have to be similar across conditions (Miltenberger, 2016). In our fist condition the treatment ATD was designed with A-B-A-B-A-B pattern. The first day, violent cartoons were introduced. The second day there were no cartoons. The data proved that aggressive behaviors occurred more frequently on days where the violent cartoons were introduced (Miltenberger, 2016). The primary benefit to implementing the ATD A-B-A-B design Is controlling particular confounds (Miltenberger, 2016). 

The second example is an ADT done in randomized order, particularly A-B-B-A-B-A-A-B order. Marlow and Colleagues, examine percentage of improvement when treatment A is introduced in comparison to treatment B. This type of ATD may be used when an experimenter is trying to compare treatment efficiency (Barlow, et. al., 2016). 

Alternating-Treatment Design is a useful tool used to not only compare efficiency treatments, but may also be used to show a functional relationship as in the example with cartoons (Miltenberger, 2016). The data displays a functional relationship between violent cartoons watched and aggressive behaviors. ATD may be used for a variety of reasons in the clinical setting. 

Blake Davis 

ABA

Barlow D. H., Nock M. K., & Hersen M. (2012). Single Case Experimental Designs: Strategies for Studying Behavior Change. Capella University. 

Miltenberger, R. G. (2016). Behavior modification: Principles and procedures (6th ed.). Cengage Learning.

  Just because you thought of an interesting research question and have a desire to conduct research does not mean that your research will automatically be supported by faculty or funded by an organization. In order to gain stakeholder approval, you must submit a research proposal. Much like an outline of a paper or a treatment of a movie script, the research proposal contains several parts that begin with a research question and end with a literature review. For this Assignment, you compile a research proposal that includes a research problem, research question, and a literature review. 

For this Assignment, choose between the case studies entitled “Social Work Research: Couple Counseling” and “Social Work Research: Using Multiple Assessments.” Consider how you might select among the issues presented to formulate a research proposal.

Be sure to consult the outline in Chapter 14 the Yegidis et al. text for content suggestions for the sections of a research proposal. As you review existing research studies, notice how the authors identify a problem, focus the research question, and summarize relevant literature. These can provide you with a model for your research proposal.

By Day 7

Submit a 5- to 6-page research proposal stating both a research problem and a broad research question (may be either qualitative or quantitative). Use 6–10 of the most relevant literature resources to support the need for the study, define concepts, and define variables relevant to the question. Include a literature review explaining what previous research has found in relation to your problem and question. The literature review should also include a description of methods used by previous researchers. Finally, be sure to explain how your proposed study addresses a gap in existing knowledge.

Read Douglas Hofstadter’s recent Atlantic magazine article on Machine Translation and write a 1000 word summary and response. There are three languages that the author picks as case studies – French, German, and Mandarin. Pick one of them and discuss the issues that arise in translating this language. If you have reading competency in another language, you could instead conduct experiments similar to the ones Hofstadter conducts on your language of choice and report the results.

Keep in mind that the article is long and 1000 words is not a lot. So your first task is to identify what you think the important ideas are in this article and then decide how to incorporate them into your summary and discussion. Below we have outlined the topics you need to cover; the rest is up to you. Note that the goal of the project is to summarize — so you’ll largely be reporting the views of the author. But towards the end you can give your personal take of the discussion as long as you make it clear that this is your viewpoint. Also note that while you summarizing someone else’s ideas, you still have to do it in your words. You cannot directly take chunks of text from the article. That would count as plagiarism.

Here’s the structure your essay should have:

1. Short introductory paragraph

2. Introducing the issues that arise in translating your language of choice [this could be more than one paragraph]

     (i) What is one example of how translation fails in your language of choice? (explain the phenomenon)

     (ii) What’s another example? (explain the phenomenon)

3. Discussion of why Google Translate is limited in the way it is [this could be more than one paragraph]

     (i) Why can’t Google Translate successfully translate the structures you identified in Part 2?

     (ii) Do you think similar problems will arise in other languages?

     (ii) Do you think all efforts at machine translation are doomed to fail?

4. The final paragraph should wrap things up.

To get some tips on how to write well, you could read the first two chapters of Steven Pinker’s book “The Sense of Style”. They are attached below. Also please use spell checkers and avoid spelling mistakes.

The writing assignment has three parts: (i) the first draft (ii) peer review and (iii) the revised version. For this round (i.e. the first draft), we will grade you on content and the structure of your essay. We will give you feedback on the style and grammar of your writing but will not deduct points.

Due: noon, next Friday, October 5. Assignments should be submitted as PDF files via Moodle. Only PDF files will be accepted. Other formats (Word, RTF) will be returned and your assignment will count as a late assignment!

Application of Standards of Care

Discuss the standard(s) of care to which the parties will be held in this case scenario. How will the standards of care and your state’s Nurse Practice Act be applied in the courts if the case is sued?

Case Scenario

SK, age 61, went to the hospital with what she thought was a bad cold, and was admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia. Following admission, she became increasingly feverish and short of breath, but her family’s calls for help went unanswered. In fact, her daughter was unable to find anyone when she went to the nurses’ station looking for help. The patient eventually stopped breathing, and someone finally responded to the family’s desperate and frantic calls for help. SK was successfully resuscitated, but sustained brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. She was left unable to walk, talk, or care for herself.

Because of nurse understaffing in the hospital, her assigned RN had not assessed her often enough and did not monitor her oxygen level. There were 41 other patients on this unit. Although the hospital’s own staffing standards called for five registered nurses and two licensed practical nurses to staff this unit, only three registered nurses were on duty. Records for the unit in question indicated that the hospital failed to meet its own staffing standards for 51 out of 59 days before this incident.