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You have learned that the Fed has a stated goal of stable prices (inflation) and full employment. In this discussion, we explore the importance of the goals and why the Fed focuses on these two variables above many other possible options.
Discuss the tools available to the Fed to achieve these goals. Some tools are used much more aggressively than others. Discuss why that is and how those tools work. Address how you feel the Fed is currently performing based on the stated goals. Conclude by discussing if you agree with the stated goals and what you might change if you could.

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To Prepare:
• Review the national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the Resources and reflect on the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected for study.
• Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post for the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. (Burnout and Mental Health)
• Identify and review two additional scholarly resources (not included in the Resources for this module) that focus on change strategies implemented by healthcare organizations to address your selected national healthcare issue/stressor.
The Assignment (2-3 Pages):
Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue
Develop a 2 to 3 page paper, written to your organization’s leadership team, addressing your selected national healthcare issue/stressor and how it is impacting your work setting. Be sure to address the following:
• Describe the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected and its impact on your organization. Use organizational data to quantify the impact (if necessary, seek assistance from leadership or appropriate stakeholders in your organization).
• Provide a brief summary of the two articles you reviewed from outside resources on the national healthcare issue/stressor. Explain how the healthcare issue/stressor is being addressed in other organizations.
• Summarize the strategies used to address the organizational impact of national healthcare issues/stressors presented in the scholarly resources you selected. Explain how they may impact your organization both positively and negatively. Be specific and provide examples.
• Using proper in-text citations, the response fully integrates at least 2 outside resources and 2 or 3 course-specific resources.
READING RESOURCES • Broome, M., & Marshall, E. S. (2021). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
o Chapter 2, “Transformational Leadership: Complexity, Change, and Strategic Planning” (pp. 34–62)
o Chapter 3, “Current Challenges in Complex Health Care Organizations and the Quadruple Aim” (pp. 66–97)
Read any TWO of the following (plus TWO additional readings on your selected issue):
• Amalberti, R., Vincent, C., Nicklin, W., & Braithwaite, J. (2019). Coping with more people with more illness Part 1: The nature of the challenge and the implications for safety and quality. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 31(2), 154–158.
• Bangani, R. G., Menon, V., & Jovanov, E. (2021). Personalized stress monitoring AI system for healthcare workers. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021 IEEE International Conference On, 2992–2997.
• Carter, M. W., & Busby, C. R. (2023). How can operational research make a real difference in healthcare? Challenges of implementation. European Journal of Operational Research, 306(3), 1059–1068.
• Dixon-Woods, M., McNicol, S., & Martin, G. (2012, October 1). Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation’s programme evaluations and relevant literature. BMJ Quality & Safety, 21(10), 876.
• Gjellebæk, C., Svensson, A., Bjørkquist, C., Fladeby, N., & Grundén, K. (2020). Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare services. Futures, 124.
• Greco, E., Graziano, E. A., Stella, G. P., Mastrodascio, M., & Cedrone, F. (2022). The impact of leadership on perceived work-related stress in healthcare facilities organisations. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 35(4/5), 734-748.
• Hale, K. (2021). Benefits and challenges of in health care. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 44(3), 309–315.
• Navaz, A. N., Serhani, M. A., El Kassabi, H. T., Al-Qirim, N., & Ismail, H. (2021). Trends, technologies, and key challenges in smart and connected healthcare. IEEE Access, Access, IEEE, 9, 74044–74067.
• Slonim, A. (2023). Top challenges facing healthcare: Back to basics. Physician Leadership Journal, 10(2), 12–14. https://doi.org/10.55834/plj.2064149664
My colleague’s response to my own post
Week 1 Discussion, first respond Hello, Thank you for shedding light on burnout and mental health issues as critical national healthcare stressors. These concerns profoundly affect not only healthcare personnel but also patient safety and organizational sustainability. Burnout, as you described, aligns closely with the challenges experienced in my work setting, particularly those stemming from staff shortages and increased As you explained, personnel shortages and rising workloads are closely related to mental health concerns and burnout, resulting in a vicious cycle that puts the healthcare system under strain. The effects of burnout are noticeable in my job at an adult foster care organization, especially in the form of absenteeism, low morale, and mistakes in patient care. This reflects the difficulties you mentioned, as healthcare professionals are severely strained by understaffing and unreasonable demands (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], 2022). Heavy workloads and a lack of organizational support are major causes of burnout and are major factors in staff shortages. Overworked workers, who are more inclined to quit (Shanafelt et al., 2019), exacerbate employee turnover. Employees in my organization, for example, usually have more patients than they can adequately care for, which wears them out physically and emotionally. My firm has expanded staffing efforts, offered flexible schedule alternatives, and created wellness initiatives to address these issues. Some of the measures you highlighted, such workload management techniques and peer support programs, are in line with these efforts. Furthermore, establishing a culture that accepts obtaining confidential counseling services and other mental health treatment could lessen stigma and promote staff self-care (West et al., 2018). Your investigation demonstrates the profound effects that systemic problems like burnout and mental health disorders have on the provision of healthcare. Addressing these problems calls for consistent organizational attention, which includes actions to enhance staff-to-patient ratios, balance workloads, and create a positive work atmosphere. References National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. (2022). Stress at work. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/stress/ Shanafelt, T. D., Goh, J., & Sinsky, C. (2019). The business case for investing in physician well-being. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(12), 1821–1823. West, C. P., Dyrbye, L. N., Erwin, P. J., & Shanafelt, T. D. (2018). Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet, 388(10057), 2272–2281. • Reply

Please write a 2-page evaluation of the two articles identified. Use the Course Paper Template for this paper guidelines, and make sure that you follow APA 7 for references and citations. Please also review the grading rubric to make sure I receive all points.
Please substantiate your critical analysis with citations from the articles selected.
Note that—at the doctoral level—Please critically review and synthesize research rather than just stating personal opinions.
Use the prompts in the box below to analyze the two articles downloaded below. It is not necessary to address all the prompts in your evaluation; pick out the areas that you feel most comfortable covering. Scholarly Article Analysis Prompts
**Introduction
What were the objectives of the studies?
**Methods
What methods were used to accomplish the purpose (observations, surveys or questionnaires, interviews, case studies, etc.)?
What were the results of each study?
What type of analysis was completed in the study?
**Discussion
How were the results interpreted?
Were the authors able to answer their research question?
Did the research provide new information, a new understanding, or a new research technique?
**Consider the article as a whole.
Reread the abstract. Does it accurately summarize the article?
Check the structure of the article. Is all the material organized under the appropriate sections?
**Establish the significance of the research.
Did the research make a significant contribution to human knowledge?
Did the research produce any practical applications?
What are the social change impacts of this research?
Please be sure to cite the articles. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much!

1st Slide – Problem Statement
A big picture problem or debate in the field – define what we’re talking about – an intro slide. no more than 5 bullets with 3-5 words per bullet for any presentation slide. So what? Why does this matter to us?
2nd Slide – What do the scholars say?
How have scholars (or journalists, practitioners, etc) tackled this topic?
Provide title & Name 3:
Influential SCHOLARS -OR-
KEY AREAS / DISCIPLINES in scholarship -OR-
KEY TERMS / CONCEPTS – if you’re using them – define them!
These in some way help you to argue why your topic and researchable question are significant in a larger conversation (because your work elaborates or extends upon existing studies, adds complexity, counters existing work, etc). BULLETS not paragraphs. no more than 5 bullets with 3-5 words per bullet for any presentation slide.
3rd Slide – Question, Methods
Researchable Question:
Methods (How you answered your question):
4th Slide – Primary Sources
Primary Sources: LIST THEM ALL 5th Slide – THESIS Findings – MINI ASSERTIONS/ THEMES / FINDINGS + EVIDENCE ~4 slides BULLETS not PARAGRAPHS
How do you interpret the data? Themes, subclaims, EVIDENCE
You can present a datapoint or a quote that illustrates a theme or explanation of the finding. These should come from your PRIMARY sources.
This is no the data you obtained & created and/or analyzed.
6th Slide – Implications & Conclusion
Bullets. No paragraphs – this slide is not in “demonstrate by example” format.
Slide 1 If you haven’t already done so in above slides: Do your data & interpretations surprise you? Correspond with the literature? How so or not so? Slide 2 What are remaining questions? What are your recommendations for research and or policy? Remember to bring us back to the so what – not about the issue in general as a problem – but about your analysis of the data obtained through your research – why did it matter? How did your evidence support your claim? 7th Slide – Abridged Bibliography This can be smaller text with 3-8 key scholarship
8th Slide Discussion, questions and answer for group discussion 7 minutes presentation. The attached bibliography needs to be used to complete power point presentation. Bibliography
Avila, Vrindavani, and Jennifer Elyse James. 2024. “Controlling Reproduction and Disrupting Family Formation: California Women’s Prisons and the Violent Legacy of Eugenics.” Societies 14 (5): 73. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050073.
Badmus, Gabriella A. 2024. “Privatization and Flawed Punishment: An Economic Analysis and Critique of Private Prisons in the United States and United Kingdom.” Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 40 (1): 1,129-148. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/privatization-flawed-punishment-economic-analysis/docview/3033329766/se-2?accountid=30552.
Ball, Walter. 2023. Increasing Prison Wages to Dollars Just Makes Sense. February 7. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://www.vera.org/news/increasing-prison-wages-to-dollars-just-makes-sense.
Barens, Edgar. 2013. Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. Accessed October 25, 2024. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3145026/.
Beydoun, Khaled Ali. 2022. “The New State of Surveillance: Societies of Subjugation.” Washington and Lee Law Review 79 (2): 769-845. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/new-state-surveillance-societies-subjugation/docview/2681521913/se-2?accountid=30552.
Brock, Jared A. 2020. As California wildfires raged, incarcerated exploited for labor. November 11. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2020/11/11/california-wildfires-raged-incarcerated-exploited-labor-column/6249201002/.
Browne, Jaron. 2007. “Rooted in Slavery: Prison Labor Exploitation.” Race, Poverty & the Environment 14 (1): 42-44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41555136.
Byron, Chris. 2016. “Essence and Alienation: Marx’s Theory of Human Nature.” Science & Society 80 (3): 375-394. doi:https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2016.80.3.375.
Castree, Noel. 2003. “Commodifying what nature?” Progress in Human Geography 27 (3): 273-297. doi:https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132503ph428oa.
Chennault, Carrie, and Joshua Sbicca. 2023. “Prison agriculture in the United States: racial capitalism and the disciplinary matrix of exploitation and rehabilitation.” Agriculture and Human Values 40 (1): 175-191. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10346-x.
Chrastil, Nick. 2024. Angola prisoners ask to end field work in worst heat. JUne 18. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://thelensnola.org/2024/06/18/angola-prisoners-ask-to-end-field-work-in-worst-heat/.
Fitzer, Sherrin. 2015. Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. February 17. Accessed October 25, 2024. https://thetattooedbuddha.com/2015/02/17/prison-terminal-the-last-days-of-private-jack-hall/.
Gonzalez, Marcos. 2018. “Information Asymmetry In Private Prison Management: Monitoring And Oversight As The Basis For Private Prison Legitimacy.” Public Contract Law Journal 47 (3): 377-398. doi:https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/information-asymmetry-private-prison-management/docview/2110257210/se-2?accountid=30552.
Holston, Kamau Littletree. 2019. A Historical and Contemporary Analysis. April 23. Accessed October 25, 2024. https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/context/interdisciplinary-seminar/prison-labor-in-the-united-states.
Jones, Chris. 2023. “Karl Marx’s moral philosophy and critical views of Western morality.” Verbum et Ecclesia 44 (1). doi:https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v44i1.2877.
Lopez, German. 2018. California is using prison labor to fight its record wildfires. August 9. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/9/17670494/california-prison-labor-mendocino-carr-ferguson-wildfires.
Mason, Margie, and Robin McDowell. 2024. Inmates at Louisiana’s Angola prison sue to end working farm lines in brutal heat. July 25. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/inmates-at-louisianas-angola-prison-sue-to-end-working-farm-lines-in-brutal-heat.
Moser, Ryan. 2023. Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation. November 8. Accessed October 26, 2024. https://daily.jstor.org/slavery-and-the-modern-day-prison-plantation/.
Müller, Markus-michael. 2016. “Penalizing democracy: punitive politics in neoliberal Mexico.” Crime, Law and Social Change 65 (3): 227-249. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-015-9582-6.
Sargiacomo, Massimo. 2009. “Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: Allen Lane, London, 1977, Trans. by Alan Sheridan.” Journal of Management & Governance 13 (3): 269-280. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-008-9080-7.
Scheren, Christopher B. 2024. “Sentence Served And No Place To Go: An Eighth Amendment Analysis Of “Dead Time” Incarceration.” Northwestern University Law Review 118 (4): 1167-1200. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/sentence-served-no-place-go-eighth-amendment/docview/2928642151/se-2?accountid=30552.
Scherrer, Christoph, and Anil Shah. 2017. “The Political Economy of Prison Labour: From Penal Welfarism to the Penal State.” Global Labour Journal 8 (1): 32-48. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313233207_The_Political_Economy_of_Prison_Labour_From_Penal_Welfarism_to_the_Penal_State/fulltext/5a20eb850f7e9b4d19280fe9/The-Political-Economy-of-Prison-Labour-From-Penal-Welfarism-to-the-Penal-State.pdf.
Smith. 2024. “State Constitutional Prohibitions Of Slavery And Involuntary Servitude.” Washington Law Review 99 (2): 523-560. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/state-constitutional-prohibitions-slavery/docview/3105515590/se-2?accountid=30552.
Smith, Michael L. 2024. “State Constitutional Prohibitions Of Slavery And Involuntary Servitude.” Washington Law Review 99 (2): 523-560. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/state-constitutional-prohibitions-slavery/docview/3105515590/se-2?accountid=30552.
Wall, Alison E, Robert A Smith, and Omid Nodoushani. 2018. “Corporate Slavery: Does It Still Exist?” Competition Forum 16 (2): 46-53. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/corporate-slavery-does-still-exist/docview/2369804122/se-2?accountid=30552.
Weber, Benjamin D. 2019. “The Strange Career of the Convict Clause: US Prison Imperialism in the Panamá Canal Zone.” International Labor and Working Class History 96 (1): 79-102. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S01475479190
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Please complete the Fossil Lab Part 1 on Taxonomy, Stromatolites, Protists, Sponges, Corals, and Bryozoans. Next week we will be looking at Brachiopods, Mollusks, Arthropods, and Echinoderms.
Lab Videos at the bottom of this page.
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In this lab, there are questions that you can answer from reading the lab text. There are a few questions that ask you to look at a microscope slide or a fossil specimen(s). I used my Leica EZ4D binocular microscope to take some photos of fossil specimens. The following pics go with the lab activities.
Activity 1.2: Kingdom Protista
Questions 2: Slide picture of diatoms. Sketch three diatoms and identify using Figure 4 from the lab.
Diatoms
Radiolarians
Questions 4: Slide of fossil foraminifera. (a) Sketch any three and label the aperture, suture, and chamber. (b) Determine the generic name of the three forams using Figure 6 from the lab.
Radiolaria
Question 3: Slide of radiolaria. Sketch two different genera and identify each.
Activity 1.4: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Cnidaria
Question 4: Sketch of tabulate, rugose, and scleractinia corals
tabulate01.jpg rugose01.jpg scleractinian01.jpg
Activity 1.5: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Ectoprocta – Bryozoans
Question 1: Identify the three following fossil bryozoans using Figure 27. Ketch and name each specimen and note the position of the zooecium on each drawing by an arrow.
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I have attached my project proposal, he has reviewed it and checked off on it, I have written below his instructions on the actual research paper. Please let me know if you have any questions. Please read the project proposal and create the research paper based around it, include graphs/tables & testing data in the research paper, use graphics as well.
CS 5/7312 (Fall 2024): Course Project
Assignment
Your project is an integral and the most important part of your learning experience in CS 5/7312. It must include both the critical elements of UI design and evaluation (UX), with possibly other elements in the UI/UX process as well. Project related activities will consist of three stages:
A project proposal: due on 9/30/24.
A project progress report due on 11/11/24, or an optional (formal) project presentation to be scheduled for the last 4-5 weeks of classes (with the presentation slides due the day before your presentation).
A final project report: due on 12/5/24.
It can be either an individual project or a comprehensive group project.
The details are given below.
Acceptable project types
The project should be an application of some specific UI design AND evaluation (UX) techniques/models for a new or existing program/product/application/service/etc. Your project should include several of the following important elements:
Usability requirements through ethnographic observations or other requirement gathering techniques, typically directly involving the target users.
Initial design and follow-up design evaluation-and-refinement cycles/iterations following user-centered design (UCD), participatory design (PD), or other UI design frameworks/methodologies and related techniques..
Choice of appropriate interaction styles and detailed design decisions with justification.
Implementation of the UI design.
(Warning: Don’t get bogged down on this! The focus of your project should be on UI design and evaluation, not implementation.)
Evaluation (of design, prototypes, and/or implementation) through expert reviews, usability testing, or other appropriate usability evaluation techniques. Pay particular attention to your concrete, and ideally some quantitative, usability metrics to be used for evaluation.
Identification of problems for further usability improvement and/or for process improvement.
Followup improvement cycles as a second (and third, and …) iteration of some of the above steps.
The most important elements are the design AND evaluation activities performed by you. An acceptable project must include BOTH these elements and related activities, although you may choose to focus on one while only performing limited amount/scope of activities on the other. For example:
For a project focusing on design, such as designing a new system and its UI, design prototypes of different levels of details are expected, and supported by the accompanying evaluation activities that lead to the subsequent refinements/modifications of the initial design. In addition, at least some evaluation needs to be performed to demonstrate its usability.
For a project focusing on evaluation, such as evaluating an existing system, be sure to include some objective/quantitative usability metrics and related data (and analysis of the data). For example, you should not only relying on general survey feedback and/or subjective rating of the UI from expert reviews. Detailed data from usability testing and/or actual usage measurement data that can be used to quantify usability would be appropriate here. In addition, you still need to have some design elements, such as changed and/or enhanced I.S. with justification, design sketches of an improved/modified system/UI, etc. based on your evaluation results.
For a group project, typically consisting of two team members, both the design and evaluation aspects must be covered with significant amount of corresponding activities/results for BOTH. In addition, more elements among the above (and/or with more in-depth treatment of these elements), a larger system, and more detailed/elaborated design/(possible implementation)/evaluation/repeating-the-cycle activities should be included, appropriate for the group. The group size of 3 or more needs special approval from the instructor.
Several other considerations are also listed below:
It’s generally a good idea to consider multiple design techniques, interaction styles, and evaluation methods and actually use a couple from each category in your project to get a hands-on feeling/experience of how different techniques, styles and methods work in practical applications.
Try to be as specific as possible in each of your activities. For example, when you evaluate the usability of your system, consider:
What is/are your specific evaluation technique(s)?
How about other techniques that might be appropriate?
What’s the basis for comparison (baseline)?
What usability metrics are to be used?
How to collection the data needed?
Most importantly, it’s a project where you design/(possible implement)/evaluate (“do”) UI for some system and report the activities/results/findings/etc. Concrete design artifacts need to be produced, and/or quantitative (and qualitative) evaluation results need to obtained. Therefore, a general discussion of or even a comprehensive survey about UI/UX and related topics and activities will not be an acceptable project.
Difference in 7312 and 5312 projects:
For 5312: The minimal requirement is to go through one design-evaluation, or evaluation-design cycle, — this is the requirement for undergraduate students enrolled in CS 5312.
For 7312: It would be an excellent idea to at least attempt part of a 2nd cycle, such as design-evaluation-redesign, or evaluation-design-evaluation (start with evaluation of the original design, and end with the evaluation of the modified/improved design). Of course, I don’t expect a full re-design, or a full re-evaluation. Graduate students enrolled in CS 7312 are required to included such 2nd round of re-design or re-evaluation activities in their projects, in addition to the first design/evaluation or evaluation/re-design cycle required for all students above.
Project proposals
Your project proposal should be around 3-4 double spaced pages (single column) in length, and should include the following information:
an informative title (e.g., “UI Design and Usability Testing of XYZ”, or “Usability Evaluation and Redesign of XYZ”, but not just the generic title like “CS 5/7312 Project”, or “XYZ UI”),
a one-paragraph abstract (at the beginning of the proposal) to give a high-level overview or executive summary of your project (not just the system or its UI),
introduction: clearly identify the problem that you are going to address (typically limited to one or two paragraphs),
brief background information (no more than 1/2 to 1 page),
a well-justified solution strategy you intend to use (most importantly: which design/evaluation techniques? which interaction styles? etc., and why?),
expected results (and data to be collected, particularly to calculate usability metrics for UI evaluation) and related analysis to be performed,
followup actions,
a rough schedule,
In case of a group project, please also pay attention to the following:
Please provide information regarding each team member’s roles and responsibilities.
The amount of work proposed for a group project should be appropriate (proportionally more) for the group size. As stated earlier, both the design and evaluation aspects must be covered with significant amount of corresponding activities/results for BOTH. As a general rule of thumb, if something can be comfortably done by a single student, it is not suitable as a group project.
You only need to submit one proposal, one progress report, and one final report for the project by one team member, with the other(s) submitting a note or a link giving information about who is the submitter of the team. The proposal and report must follow the same instruction as the individual projects.
Please keep in mind that by the time you submit your project proposal, we have only covered less than half of the class material, although an overview of the whole course is given at the beginning of the semester. Therefore, you may make certain modifications to what you proposed later on, but the basic framework, scope, and direction should remain fairly stable.
I’ll provide written feedback to your submitted proposals. You need to address the issues I raised in your final project report. However, in most of the cases, you do NOT need to submit a revised proposal, unless I specifically ask you to do so. (I.e., in the rare case that your proposal is “unacceptable”, I’ll explicitly ask you to re-do/re-submit a revised proposal.)
Progress report
All the students are required to submit a progress report, if you are not doing a presentation (see below) in class or on recording. Your progress report should focus on project progress you made so far, i.e., the main activities and results from your project after the proposal submission/review/feedback cycle. Here are some specifics about the progress report:
Your progress report should be around 3-4 double spaced pages in length, or about 6-8 slides in presentation slide format.
A brief summary of what you proposed earlier should be included, 1/2 to 1 page.
Focus: progress so far, post-proposal stage, including design framework/methods followed, I.S. selected (for design) or identified (for evaluation), data collected from ethnographic observations/surveyors/execution logs/etc., design (prototypes) constructed, usability testing and/or other evaluation activities performed, result analysis, etc.
What remain to be done (progress vs plan/proposal), and when.
I’ll give you written feedback for all the progress reports submitted, which should be incorporated into your final project report.
Optional project presentation
You are highly encouraged to do a project presentation. In that case, you don’t need to submit the progress report described above. Each presentation should last about 15 minutes, with appropriate numbers of slides. The presentation slides need to be submitted the day before your presentation. You need to highlight the problem/solution-strategy/results/analysis for us to get the basic picture, but not necessarily all the details, which would require much more than 15 minutes. One common mistake in the past is too much background information but not enough UI design/evaluation technical information.
The primary purpose of the presentation is to share the results, findings, lessons learned with the rest of the class, and also to receive feedback from the instructor and the class. I’ll also provide some brief feedback to your project verbally (live feedback), and may followup with some additional written feedback, so that you can make some adjustments to your project before submission of the final report.
Project report
The project report should be around 15 double-spaced pages in length, (please don’t use double column format: it doesn’t work as well for project reports), but no longer than 20 pages for an individual project or 25 pages for a group project. For undergraduate students, the report can be slightly shorter, at around 12 pages, but same format and sections, with probably a bit less for the followup round of design-eval or eval-design cycle.
The report should clearly and comprehensively states the background, problem, strategy, activities, results, result analysis, lessons learned, followup actions, and a high level summary (and an abstract at the beginning). The report should include an informative title and a 1-paragraph abstract, followed by individual sections and possibly references and/or appendix. Each section should be clearly marked, preferably using numbered section headings (see, for example, the papers P1-P3 from our research group at SMU available on Canvas/”Files”). Additional material, such as graphs, models, etc. produced, information sources and raw data, customer surveys, etc., can be included in the appendix and clearly marked as such (so it will not be counted towards your 20 or 25 page quota).
Several common mistakes to avoid:
It is supposed to be a “report”, not a set of “presentation slides”. So, limit your use of lists/bullets, and put most of the material/discussions in paragraphs. Similarly, only figures and tables without corresponding discussions do not make a good report.
Your project report must contain UI design/evaluation related technical information. In addition, you need to describe/discuss this information unless it is clearly self-explanatory.
Important figures/tables should be in the report itself, not in the appendix, accompanied by relevant descriiptions/discussions in the main text of the report. On the other hand, you shouldn’t include large numbers of the graphs, models, etc. produced for the project in the report text itself. As I mentioned above, they can be included in the appendix, if you desire, together with other material, such as raw data, customer surveys, etc.
Most importantly, it’s a report about what you did in UI design and evaluation (and other activities) yourself. Therefore, a general discussion of or even a comprehensive survey about UID and related topics/activities will not be suitable. (An unacceptable project. See “acceptable project types” earlier.)
Posted: Sept. 18, 2024. Last update: Sept. 18, 2024.
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A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is an effective tool for making marketing decisions and continually evaluating the marketplace to determine if adjustments should be made to a marketing plan.
For this assignment, you will complete a SWOT analysis. You may do the analysis in the form of an interactive or in the form of a quiz. You only need to complete one version of the SWOT analysis. Then, you will reflect on what you learned from doing the SWOT analysis by responding to some questions.
Prompt
Complete one version of the SWOT analysis simulation. The interactive and the quiz themselves are non-graded tools to help you experience a SWOT analysis. You will be graded based on the Module Six SWOT Analysis Rubric.
SWOT Analysis Interactive
SWOT Analysis Quiz
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Name the SWOT analysis version that you completed. Reflect on your experience with completing a simulation of a SWOT analysis by answering the questions provided below.
Which category (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, or threats) of the analysis simulation was the most challenging for you?
What have you now learned that will help you better identify items that belong in that category in the future?
Which category of a SWOT analysis do you think marketers may tend to overlook most often, and why?
What are at least two potential negative impacts of failing to consider the often overlooked category you’ve just identified?
What to Submit
Submit your assignment as a Word document that contains a 1- to 3-sentence response per rubric criterion. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Module Six SWOT Activity Rubric
Criteria Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
SWOT Analysis Version Names the version of the SWOT analysis that was completed N/A Does not attempt criterion 10
Category Names the SWOT category that was the most challenging in the analysis N/A Does not attempt criterion 20
Learning Summarizes what was learned about the challenging category and how it will help better identify items for that category in the future Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a more accurate or complete description of the category Does not attempt criterion 20
Overlooked Most Often Names the SWOT analysis category marketers often overlook and explains why Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more logical description as to why SWOT analysis category is often overlooked Does not attempt criterion 20
Two Potential Negative Impacts Summarizes at least two potential negative impacts of failing to consider the often overlooked category Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more accurate or complete description of at least two potential negative impacts Does not attempt criterion 20
Articulation of Response Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas 5
Citations and Attributions Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution 5
Total:

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