• This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
• Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

1. Compare differing conceptualizations of the mind and how the mind is studied.
2. Address the influence of internal and environmental conditions on what is recalled from certain kinds of memory/representations (e.g., things remembered rote, such as one’s phone number vs. interpreted things like a mother’s affect last time she was seen).
3. Determine the necessity for a one-to-one correspondence between a specific representation in the mind and a physico-chemical condition in some specific neurons/synapses in the associated brain.
4. Analyze fundamental differences between representations from: (a) Visual stimuli vs. those from speech stimuli; (b) Experienced stimuli (instantiated; things that happened externally, the last pizza you ate) vs. imagined stimuli (uninstantiated; anticipating-imagining something for dinner that you’ve never had before)

Ebook will be given to the chosen one.

Application: Child Observation Project: Part 4—Developing a Portfolio Plan

In your Week 3 Application, you conducted two observations as a part of your Child Observation Project. As you have been learning, the purpose of this project is to help you better understand and develop knowledge and skills related to effective observation and assessment strategies. Therefore, the project does not provide a holistic picture of the development and learning of the child whom you have been focusing your project on. Additionally, observation and assessment knowledge, skills, and data have little meaning in isolation—it is only when they are a part of ongoing assessment that they truly can be used for the intended purposes of supporting development and learning.

Portfolios represent “organized, purposeful compilation of evidence documenting a child’s development and learning over time” (McAfee & Leong, 2007, p. 100). Building portfolios requires careful planning that takes into account appropriate expectations for children’s learning and development and children’s unique developmental patterns and preferences. For this Application, you will have an opportunity to develop a plan for building a portfolio, by describing additional data and related strategies that you would need in order to complete a comprehensive assessment that covers all the developmental areas of one child’s development and learning.

Note: You will not be collecting the data that you identify in your plan.

Plan

• Review Pages 97–101 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning, and begin thinking about the required evidence and individualized samples you might include in your portfolio plan.

• Download and print the form:

• • Portfolio Plan

Implement

• In the left-hand column, list the following areas of development and learning you will be including in your portfolio plan. These include:

• • Large Muscle Development

  • Small Muscle Development

  • Basic Concepts of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Cognitive Development – Thinking

  • Language Development—Oral Language

  • Language Development—Literacy Development

  • Personal-Social Development—Personal Development

  • Personal-Social Development—Social Development

Note: You can use more than one row for each area of development and learning.

• Review Figure 6.1, and identify the types of items that you will select for each area of development and learning.

• In the right column, indicate your plan for selecting items. Include when items will be selected and who decides what items should go into the portfolio.

Reflect

• Review your Portfolio Plan and relate your development of the plan to what you have learned about planning for effective assessments by considering:

• • How implementing the Portfolio Plan could contribute to your knowledge of the child whom you selected for your Child Observation Project.

  • Any additional information, not covered in the Plan, that you feel would add to your growing knowledge of the child whom you selected for your Child Observation Project.

For this assignment, submit:

• Your Portfolio Plan

• A summary of the Reflection citing examples from your Learning Resources to substantiate your ideas and thinking.

Assignment length: 2 pages

Health Information Management: Clinical and Service Quality

Part 1:

Write a 700- to 1,000-word paper that discusses the following:

Imagine you are the supervisor of the health information management (HIM) department in a large outpatient clinic. This department manages patient records. Complaints about your department are becoming more frequent and intense. Some clinic employees have complained that the HIM department takes too long to retrieve patient records. Others have expressed dismay over the rudeness of HIM staff. You decide to talk about these problems with employees throughout the clinic. The clinic’s receptionists respond to you defensively. They tell you that the HIM staff won’t answer the phone and that they want some backup when they are busy with patients.

You talk to the HIM staff and find their stories are just as negative. They say they are being charged with more responsibilities but have no additional help. They also complain that the receptionists transfer calls that they should be handling. The clinic’s nurses are also upset with the HIM staff; they claim the department does not help them locate patient charts, causing long wait times for patients. The clinic’s physicians say they cannot assume additional tasks to alleviate the situation because their days are already chaotic.

Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed references, not including the textbook.

Format your paper consistent with APA 6th guidelines.

Part 2:

Write a 400- to 600-word paper that discusses the following:

If you were the team leader of the group described in the following case study, how would you refocus and remotivate the team toward the improvement goal?

When members were recruited for the improvement project, they were clearly told that the team’s work would be additional to their regular work responsibilities but that they had to treat it as a high priority. Assignments would have to be completed on time, and people would be required to attend meetings. Despite these clear expectations, by the third week of the project, team members started arriving late to meetings. They made excuses for not having completed their assigned tasks and were neglecting to return the leader’s phone calls.

Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed references

Format your paper consistent with APA 6th guidelines.

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