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For your Midterm Project, you’ll need to create a timeline of 8 major criminal appellate cases that changed the way law enforcement searches and seizures.  The timeline should range at least 50 years, and be saved in Microsoft Word format. 
The timeline should include 1-2 paragraph summaries of each case ( with full citation). 
Completed timeline:  50 points
Completed summary: 50 points

I use TurnItIn to grade your originality/plagiarism. You are allowed 20%. After you go over the 20% your grade drops by one percent for every percent you go over 20%. Think about it, approximately one-fourth of your paper may be obtained from professional sources. The remaining 80% should be in your words.

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As mentioned in this week’s Introduction, computers have propelled many of the changes in psychological testing. Computers facilitate the computation needed for test construction, administration, scoring, and interpretation. Through the Internet, computers also make it much easier to collect test validation data and to administer tests at a distance. Nevertheless, these changes are accompanied by new challenges and problems. For instance, some computer programs are available that score test protocols, write narratives, and make recommendations. A computer-generated report, however, is unable to weigh clinical information in the way that a professional could and can therefore be misleading. When test validation and administration is done virtually, there is less control over the nature of the sample and the conditions of administration. Furthermore, electronic storage and transmission of test information raises concerns about security and confidentiality.

Another outcome of increasing computer technology is that item-response theory (IRT) is becoming increasingly easy to apply. New software and fast and inexpensive computers are readily accessible. This has made possible the development of item banks and computer administration that can be carefully matched to an examinee’s ability level. IRT also allows test items to be compared across languages and cultures.

Increased sensitivity to cultural diversity and disability is another trend. Since the 1970s, there has been a significant awareness of how culture affects and biases test performance. Early responses to this awareness were to “throw out the baby with the bathwater.” For instance, the 1979 California Larry P. v. Riles legal decision banned the use of intelligence tests for placing African-American students in special education classes. An evolving understanding of culture allows us to apply tests more appropriately, selecting test instruments that are consistent with an examinee’s background, interpreting patterns of scores rather than single summary scores, and looking at test results against the background of personal information.

To prepare for this Discussion, select one peer-reviewed journal article from the Walden Library on a current trend in psychological measurement (one mentioned above or a different one). Consider the implications of this trend for future testing, measurement, and research.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post a brief summary of the article you selected and an explanation of how the article characterizes the trend. Finally, explain two implications of this trend in future testing, measurement, and research.

1. Discuss how important is it for companies, such as Nike and Wal-Mart that source extensively from foreign suppliers located in countries where wages are low and substandard working conditions are common to institute supplier codes of conduct and undertake programs to monitor and ensure supplier compliance with these codes of conduct?

2. Would you recommend that a company join the Fair Labor Association and use FLA’s standards and program of factory audits instead of trying to set up its own supplier monitoring and compliance effort?

3. What can a company do to detect and combat the efforts of unscrupulous foreign suppliers to deceive inspection/compliance teams?

Please number each response and provide one space between responses.

Introduce yourself to your classmates and the instructor by creating an elevator speech. This is an excellent way to convey your skills while networking and seeking employment. Typically, an elevator speech is a one-minute summary of who you are, why you are qualified, and what you have to offer the organization or industry. Creating this brief sales pitch will help better prepare you to discuss your career goals whenever the opportunity presents itself. This type of interaction might occur at a networking event, during a job interview, or within a social setting such as a party or a ride in an elevator. It is recommended that you also review the Elevator Pitch, How to Craft an Elevator Pitch (Links to an external site.) and the 30 Second Elevator Pitch and Professional Summaries (Links to an external site.) online resources. Consider the person in your field who you would most like the opportunity to approach. Keep this person in mind throughout the process. It is important to discuss your specific areas of expertise in learning and cognition and how they could be applied to benefit the organization or industry and your future success is this field. Briefly explain any theoretical perspectives that apply to these areas. Then for your introduction to this class, create a script of your speech. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.

The goal of this discussion forum is to offer you an introduction to the field of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is a discipline within psychology that is concerned with the scientific study of the human mind. The mind is responsible for a variety of functions and abilities, including perception, attention, consciousness, memory, reasoning, and decision-making. Most of our mental life is unconscious. If the objects of our attention are equated to the objects of our consciousness, it is reasonable to assume that we are aware of only a limited number of events in our daily lives.

For your initial post, complete the following steps:

• Watch the video entitled, The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain (Links to an external site.).
• Select a “hot topic” of cognitive psychology based on what you have heard and/or seen in the media and your personal interests.
• Look for a report in the media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, web pages of professional organizations, etc.) that refers to the selected topic such as “defendant cannot remember what happened,” “false memories explain UFO abduction stories,” and so forth.
• Describe the content of the selected report and offer your own perspective. Namely, use your critical-thinking skills to examine the extent to which the claims made in the report and the evidence upon which the report relies are to be trusted. Then, discuss the real-life consequences of the evidence reported.

In your post, include a link to the selected report, and explain to the members of the class why you have selected it. Support your points with evidence from at least one peer-reviewed research article. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.

Your current position is an educational consultant of English Language Learners (ELL) and Students with Disabilities in the New Brookhaven School. The teachers you are assigned to work with have taught in the school for five to ten (5-10) years. Each teacher is set in his or her ways. The test scores on achievement tests for neighborhood typical learning students is average to above average. Students with disabilities are known to be excluded from standardized testing and from some classroom activities. Five (5) ELL students have also just arrived at the school from the new community immigrant host program. Parents of the ELL students do not speak English and will need an interpreter to work with the school and communicate with teachers. Two (2) of the ELL students are known for exhibiting behavioral outbursts in class. Several of the students with disabilities also have Behavioral Intervention Plans and are behind academically. Parents of the student with disabilities often complain that their children are not receiving a fair education and are treated differently than their peers. The school has limited technology funding. Your position in the school is to create a learning environment that is educationally sound for the ELL students and students with disabilities.

Write a (8) page paper in which you:

*Summarize a background scenario of the school, teachers, teaching environment, and students. 

*Explain how you would establish and integrate programs for students with disabilities and ELL students. Research and cite two (2) case law findings that impact programs for students with disabilities and ELL students. 

*Analyze how school resources and public school funding could be utilized or re-appropriated for technology and specialized programs for student learning and engagement. Research and cite one (1) case law finding or legislative act that impacts school resources and public school funding allocations.

*Discuss how incidents of behavioral infractions will be addressed.

*Recommend how the needs of students and teachers will be met as it relates to student and teacher freedom and safety.

*Construct a plan to meet the needs of ELL students, students with disabilities, and their parents.

*Explain a strategy for securing technology funding to meet student and teacher technology needs. 

*Analyze three (3) potential challenges to your proposed plan and explain how you would address these. 

* Use at least six (6) peer-reviewed academic resources 

400 Words/ No Plagiarism 

Assignment Details

Teams can exist for a myriad of reasons; however, the development process will always be relatively the same.  Understanding each of the stages is important as it will allow for an understanding of the process that the team must progress through when brought together for a common goal. Discuss the following:

• 1.) Discuss the general characteristics of the 4 stages of team building: forming, storming, norming, and performing.  
• 2.) Discuss a time when you were a member of a team in your organization. How did your team progress through the four stages? What issues arose, and how did your team overcome them?