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Discuss your understanding of qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Then, discuss your understanding of formative and summative evaluations.

Program evaluation

Ethical Formative and Summative Evaluation Plans

As noted in the course overview, you will not only address obtaining a grant, but maintaining one as well. Funding sources are very particular about how you monitor ongoing progress towards proposed outcomes. Part of the grant application and periodic reporting will be your evaluation plan. There are usually two types of evaluation: formative (or ongoing) and summative (or outcome-based).

You will need to use the readings and resources provided in this course to make decisions about how you will show you are making progress. This step is similar to your practice evaluations of client progress.

You have several choices ranging from quantitative measures such as surveys, arrest rates, hospitalization rates, and frequency of use, to more qualitative measures such as exit interviews, focus groups, or listening groups. Triangulation of data sources helps to ensure validity of results. Using three or more data sources (often mixing qualitative and quantitative measures) can be effective.

In a 4–6 page paper, discuss your understanding of qualitative methods and quantitative methods. Then, discuss your understanding of formative and summative evaluations.

Choose a combination of qualitative and quantitative measures for a formative (on-going) then a summative (final outcome) evaluation of each of your eight outcomes.

For example, if you had an outcome that stated that 30-day use of alcohol among adolescents would be reduced by 50 percent, you could use an annual underage drinking survey to plot if a percentage of teens are consuming less alcohol in a 30-day period. This is considered a quantitative method.

You could also gather a listening group of 10–12 adolescents who would be open, honest, and knowledgeable, and ask their perception of alcohol consumption among teens. This is considered a qualitative method. You may choose to use the listening sessions as formative evaluation and pre-and post-survey for summative evaluation. You need to rely on scholarly sources to defend your choices for all items listed above.

Submission Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Develop accurate written communication and thoughts that convey the overall goals of the assignment and do not detract from the overall message. Your paper should demonstrate graduate-level writing skills.

References: 8–12 references to text, peer reviewed journal articles, and/or credible websites (no more than 3 web sources).

Number of pages: 4–6 double-spaced pages. Note: Page count does not include cover page or references. Abstract not required.

Formatting: Use 12-pt, Arial or Times New Roman font; MS Word documents only.

APA style and formatting: Use current APA style and formatting.

Identify and briefly describe the agents of socialization. You can use one paragraph and a bulleted or summary structure here.Describe, in detail, the specific impact that the agent of socialization had within the life of the individual.

Agents of Socialization

In this module, you learned about the importance of socialization, how various agents and institutions play a role in socializing an individual, and how these experiences in socialization impact the individual across their lifespan.

In this assignment, you will apply this information by analyzing the agents of socialization as they impact a specific individual in writing an essay between 500-600 words.

Identify and briefly describe the agents of socialization. You can use one paragraph and a bulleted or summary structure here.

Choose an individual to help you focus on one specific agent of socialization. This example can be a real person, or it can be character from a television show, movie, or book. Describe, in detail, the specific impact that the agent of socialization had within the life of the individual.

What is especially useful and not useful about the classification? What changes would you make to the authors’ classification to make it more applicable to your role as a social worker?

Discussion week 2: Classifications of Life-Span Development

When did you become an adult? Was it the day you graduated from high school? Or, was it the day you moved out of your parents’ or caregivers’ home? Your description of what it means to be an adult and how and when an adolescent transitions into adulthood may differ from that of your colleagues.

The authors of your course text, Zastrow, Kirst-Ashman, & Hessenauer, use the term young and middle adulthood to identify the life-span time period between age 18 and 65. This classification distinguishes this time in the life of an individual from childhood and adolescence and from the later years of adulthood.

Is the authors’ young and middle adulthood classification a useful one? What is especially useful and not useful about the classification? What changes would you make to the authors’ classification to make it more applicable to your role as a social worker?

For this Discussion, you analyze the author’s life-span classification and suggest ways to improve it.

A new classification (or possibly multiple classifications) to replace the authors’ young and middle adulthood classification

A definition of your new classification(s)

Support for your new classification(s). for example, this support may include references to theory and empirical research findings and should reflect the current understanding of biological, psychological, and social development

An implication your new classification might have regarding social work practice

Can food be a source of meaningful intercultural encounters? Use the essential and supplementary readings and/or your own example to address this question.

Migration and social change

Individually written responses of 250 words to each reflection question.

Professor is assessing students understanding of the unit resources, not the general knowledge, so make sure to apply theories and concepts covered in the resources and lecture pods.

Question 1: week 5: Research an example of one of these and write about it using the concepts from the lecture pod and readings:

a) positive intervention by an organization or a government to attend to migrant women’s specific needs;

b) positive example of media representation of migrant women.

Resources:

Use login details provided to view the short lecture pods for week 5 and reference it in the reflection ^^^

Ehrkamp, Patricia (2013) had it with them!” Younger migrant women’s spatial practices of conformity and resistance’, Gender, Place & Culture, 20:1, 19-36.

Question2: week 6: Pick an object in your house that a family member feels a strong attachment to and complete two tasks: a) interview them about it; b) take notes about their memory and use of the object as well as its placement in the house and write about it in 250 words.

Resources:

Back, Les and Keith, Michael (2014) ’Reflections: Writing cities’, in Hannah Jones, Emma Jackson and Alex Rhys-Taylor (ed.), Stories of cosmopolitan belonging: Emotion and location. London: Routledge,15-28.

More resouces link provided in separate file

Question 3: week 7: Can food be a source of meaningful intercultural encounters? Use the essential and supplementary readings and/or your own example to address this question.

Resources:

Khorana, Sukhmani (2018) ’Introduction’, in The Tastes and Politicsof Inter-Cultural Food in Australia. Rowman & Littlefield.

Examine how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have affected pastoral caregivers from the United Reformed Church.

Methodology (Qualitative Research of the impact of Covid-19 upon Pastoral Caregivers)

Examine how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have affected pastoral caregivers from the United Reformed Church.

Discuss your analysis of the material and in particular how it relates to your life experience. First person, avoid summary and do not use quotes. Late Papers will not be accepted.

Sociology documents read and how to relates to your life experience

Professor note and Documents URL below:

Reaction Paper 2 Ch. 2 Social Research

Reaction Papers: You are expected to read all material and prepare a reaction paper of 1-2 full pages (min. 800 to 1200 words) for each reading assignment. These papers should discuss your analysis of the material and in particular how it relates to your life experience. First person, avoid summary and do not use quotes. Late Papers will not be accepted.

Documents URL:

Note: avoid Plagiarism

How did EFL teachers at an international university in Riyadh adapted to online teaching during the pandemic.

Write a 15000 word on the Research Question which has been attached.

State that 400 teachers were sent this survey, however only 65 completed the survey, Make the information as authentic as possible. improve on the areas the tutors has commented on.

Challenges faced by children with autism in the Society and how to promote Ethical and Value base social work w to promote ethical and valuew to:Discuss?

Challenges faced by children with autism in the Society and how to promote Ethical and Value base social work w to promote ethical and valuew to

What does the language used reveal about the speaker’s identity/background and how?

Masters Major project details – Discourse analysis of political speeches by two black MP’s Kemi Badenoch and Dawn Butler

FEEDBACK FROM RESEARCH PROPOSAL:

“This is a very interesting proposal on a very important topic.really like the research questions and approach. However, think the study could be improved if you consider having clearer -more focused – research questions.

‘Salient features’ is an ad-hoc and subjective category.would suggest you try to be a bit more focused. For example, you could focus on the discursive construction of certain ideology/idea by these politicians.

Now that these speeches are available, try to do a strict, more focused, discourse analysis , i.e. one which provides a thorough analysis of specific features.

Also, the second question could be improved if you refocus it like this:

What does the language used reveal about the speaker’s identity/background and how?

The lit review is well-written but could benefit from a more liberal thematic organisation. Currently it is too narrowly focused on specific events. The lit review is supposed to provide a glimpse into the status of the field.

The analysis section could also benefit from a clearer plan. Currently it is a bit random. This seems to have been caused by the rather vague research questions which could easily be fixed.

The annotated bibl is very well-written. However, it would be good if you could try to provide a clearer link between the study by Fairclough and the analysis of the data.”

Write a 15000 word masters with a separate bibliography.

Discourse analysis of political speeches.

1) How issues relating to BAME, and in particular black people’s issues are presented at the house of commons through analysis of speech. e.g. ( see video of two Black MP’s, Kemi Badenoch and Dawn Butler.) Transcripts can be found on the house of commons website.

2) This is an important question because of the widespread controversy and reach of social policy.

3) Some possible answers in the difference between two black women’s method of speaking (one is a tory MP and the other labour) and presentation of their points is that Tories generally attend private schools and have a holistic education – either she attended private school, or it has rubbed off on her from her colleagues over time together with her value whilst growing up.

4) Look into their ethnicities, The tory MP is African (Kemi Badenoch) whilst the Labour MP is afro-Caribbean (Dawn Butler). See video you tube link above debate between the two.

Following books are useful to look at for critical discourse analysis:

Fairclough, N. (1995) Critical discourse analysis: the critical study of language. Longman.

Chouliaraki, L. & Fairclough, N. (1999) Discourse in late modernity: rethinking critical discourse analysis . Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP.

Machin, D. & Mayr, A. (2012) How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction . Los Angeles, [Calif.] ;: SAGE.

Rogers Rebecca. (2003) An introduction to critical discourse analysis . Mahwah, N.J., London: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wodak, R. & Meyer, M. (2009) Methods of critical discourse analysis . 2nd ed. London: SAGE.

Wodak, R. (2009) The discursive construction of national identity. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Press.

Must be 15000 words masters and a bibliography. read the feedback notes above from the supervisor. (See Research proposal attached and the feedback notes above for it)