This is your final project for this class and should be a plan for your life to keep you well and healthy both physically and mentally.  Each person’s plan will look different but must demonstrate a clear vision of what you want in your life and how you plan to get it.  This is due at the end of Module 5.  Include your name in the […]

Final Research Paper Research the responsibility of a critical thinker in a contemporary society. You may choose any topic that deals with a contemporary social concern. Examine the principles of critical thought in relation to the chosen societal concern, and consider the importance of ethics, moral reasoning, a research-based process to search for truth, and the advantages of information technology in gathering data. Potential social […]

Read the Ford Pinto case that I have posted on the course website. Imagine you are the recall coordinator (the person whose job it is to decide whether or not a car should be recalled for safety reasons) for Ford Motor Company. It is 1973, and field reports have been coming in about rear-end collisions, fires and fatalities. The decision you must make is whether […]

Tomlinson (2009) described differentiated assessment as an ongoing process through which teachers gather data before, during, and after instruction from multiple sources to identify learners’ needs and strengths. In a quality class that is built on the foundation of differentiation, the teacher will infuse a constant stream of assessments (before, during, and after) to help identify student’s needs and to help improve learning.  Use the […]

Creating a Unit Plan Once you’ve gotten to know your students through learning profile inventories that identify individual areas of strength and learning styles, you can design multimodal lessons that incorporate instructional technology that engage the 21st Century learner. This week you will create a three-day unit plan outline that addresses students’ diverse learning styles and multiple intelligences, acknowledges cultural and language differences, and integrates […]

Leaders of health care and health information technology are charged with a vision for growth and improvement. Technology is advancing in health care at an unsurpassed rate. Some health care organizations are very slow to adapt. Meanwhile, other organizations spend the time and resources ensuring that they remain competitive; measuring the risk versus the benefit of new or improved health information systems. Many argue that […]

The first set of the new product is scheduled to ship next week as part of a large-scale promotion. Fred, the product engineer, just came to you looking panicked. He was holding the box in which the product is shipped to the home sales representatives. (The packages going to the end-consumers will be inside the boxes.) He pointed out a blatant spelling error in the outer […]

What I meant was this: In the inconclusive aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, a growing sense of urgency, even crisis, gave rise to a plausible argument that someone had better do something soon to find out who would be the next president. True, a federal statute on the books defined the “someone” as Congress, but the Bush forces got to the Supreme Court first […]

Background: Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for clinical research. Biostatisticians are heavily involved in such trials, from the planning stage (e.g., sample size and power considerations) through the analysis of findings (e.g., estimation of treatment effects). In this assignment, we will examine treatment outcomes in a two treatment, two period (two-by-two) crossover design. In the two-by-two crossover design, subjects are randomly assigned to […]

View the article, Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008.  Click on ‘Download Fund Report (PDF)’ and read Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, and 21. Of these Exhibits, select the three you believe are the most important in terms of current U.S. health policy.  Analyze why you selected your three choices, and […]