Respond to at least two different colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways: Expand on your colleague’s posting by explaining additional challenges caregivers might face when caring for individuals with mental illness. Offer a different intervention that might also address caregivers’ challenges. Explain how the local resources your colleague described are similar to or different from the resources in your local area. […]

You are expected to have watched all of the lectures & screenings and to have completed the readings for the week before attending Zoom discussion section with your TA. In Section Discussion Topic: How are the Freeze, FCC policy and the 3 “C’s” connected in setting the the trajectory for the medium? As a pairs assignment: Given that most programming was live the early days […]

In the unit readings from your Psychological Testing and Assessment text, you read about misconceptions regarding test bias and test fairness—two terms that are often incorrectly considered synonymous. While questions regarding test bias have been addressed through technical means, issues with test fairness are tied to values. The text attempts to define test fairness in a psychometric context and provides eight techniques for preventing or […]

In your unit readings, you read about two approaches or models of validity—trinitarian and unitary. In some ways, these two models are competing views of gathering evidence for a test’s validity. In other ways, the two approaches have an overlap of elements. Use your Psychological Testing and Assessment text to read or review the following: Chapter 6, “Validity,” pages 175–199. Information on norms on pages […]

In your unit readings from the Psychological Testing and Assessment text, you read about three sources of error variance that occur in testing and assessment. These include test construction, test administration, and test scoring and interpretation. Additionally, other sources of error may be suspect. You were also introduced to reliability coefficients, which provide information about these sources of error variance on a test (see Table […]

Part 6 (Falkland Islands War): Compose a reflection essay in Canvas and consider any of the following questions in your response: How is it possible that two nations that are political allies of the United States, Argentina and Great Britain, could have gone to war over such a desolate location in the South Atlantic Ocean? Do you agree with the British government’s position that they […]

Part 5 (chapters 9-11): choose one of the following 3 questions and write a detailed response to it in Canvas. Your answer is worth a possible 17 points. (1) What is populism? Provide at least two examples that demonstrate how populism functioned in Latin America. (2) Why did the military stage a coup d’état in Brazil? Once in power, how did they rule the country? […]

Part 4 (chapters 7-8): choose one of the following 4 questions and write a detailed response to it in Canvas. Your answer is worth a possible 17 points (1) How did the relationship between the United States and Latin America change during the nineteenth century (the 1800s, not the 1900s)? (2) Who was Porfirio Díaz? Describe his ruling style. Be sure to include the following […]

Part 3 (chapters 5-6): choose one of the following 3 questions and write a detailed response to it in Canvas. Your answer is worth a possible 17 points (1) Who was the caudillo, and what ideas did he represent? Provide an example of a well-known caudillo in Latin America. (2) Briefly compare liberal ideas versus conservative ideas within the context of Latin America. Which ideas […]

Part 2 (chapters 3-4): choose one of the following 3 questions and write a detailed response to it in Canvas. Your answer is worth a possible 17 points. (1) If the Spanish and Portuguese colonial system was a brutal one in which native Americans and peoples of African descent were oppressed, why did colonialism last for so long? (2) Discuss the causes of the independence […]