Research Paper

Intelligence

Would you consider yourself intelligent? How would you define intelligence? Measuring intelligence has been a part of the educational psychology discourse for many years. There are many ways to define and measure the intelligence of a person. You will be taking two different intelligence tests: an I.Q. test and a multiple intelligences test. Take the Free I.Q. Testavailable at the IQ test for free website and the multiple intelligences test available at the Literacy Works website. Using this experience along with the information from our reading assignment this week respond to the following questions:

  • How do these two different tests measure intelligence?
  • Which test do you think was more reflective of your intellectual ability? Why?
  • How do you feel about the practice of I.Q. testing?
  • In reviewing your results, what did you learn about I.Q. testing?
  • How does your experience connect with the information from the text on I.Q.?
  • Could I.Q. testing be used as a valid tool in the teaching-learning process? Why or why not?
  • Why are I.Q. tests problematic? Consider diverse student populations.
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Research Paper

Assignment Instructions:
Each student is required to complete an 8-10 page research paper on a current issue facing law enforcement leaders, utilizing at least 8 scholarly references, and written in APA Style. The paper should have 8-10 pages of content, not including the title page, abstract, and reference page. Please identify the issue, provide examples and statistics to demonstrate the extent of the issue, and provide solutions and implementation strategies.
Topic ideas include: recruiting women and minorities into law enforcement, recruiting and retaining Millennials, implementing body-worn cameras, improving hiring practices and processes, reducing unethical conduct by officers, combating the opioid epidemic, improving community relations, implementing community-oriented policing, addressing increasing rates of suicide among officers, etc.

Note that references used for your research need to be government documents and/or websites, weekly course material, and peer-reviewed/scholarly journals. These journals typically have the following characteristics:1. articles are reviewed by a panel of experts before they are accepted for publication;
2. articles are written by a scholar or specialist in the field;
3. articles report on original research or experimentation;
4. are often published by professional associations;
5. utilize terminology associated with the discipline.
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Inclusion Debate

Inclusion continues to be a very heated debate as to whether it is beneficial for student learning; including those with and without disabilities. There is much research that supports and also opposes the practice of inclusion. Educational psychology provides us with the ability to examine inclusion based on the theories of learning and behavior and the continued research that aims to either validate or abandon this notion of inclusion.

For this discussion, your instructor will divide you into two different debate groups based on support and opposition on the topic of inclusion. Read Chapter 4 to gain an understanding of how legislation mandates that, whenever possible, children with exceptionalities be educated in the mainstream education classroom with other students. You want to get a deep understanding of LRE (Least Restrictive Environment). Review the additional links to review the controversy over inclusion to assist in formulating your defense with support from the literature:

Feel free to read additional texts about the topic and be sure to cite.

Based on your assigned position, formulate a defense statement that includes the following:

  • What is inclusion and how does the legislative mandate of IDEIA (Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, formerly known as IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) support its efforts.
  • Based on your research, provide at least three reasons for your position that is supported by the texts. You also want to provide solid examples to support each reason.
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Object Oriented Programming


Weighting: 100%
Instructions:
This is an Open Book assessment. Any resources used in answering the questions should be referenced in the
code in accordance with the coding referencing guidelines discussed in class and set out on the module
Moodle page. All work submitted should be your own. Conferring with others is not permitted.
Answer questions 1 to 4 using the category and functionality assigned to you according to your student
number. Read the instructions for identifying these carefully. Instructions for submission are outlined at the end of the paper.

Questions:
For this assessment you will be assigned a category and an additional piece of functionality according to your student number. Your task is to plan, develop and test an application which enables a user to catalogue a particular category of items.
Each Category has two sub-categories. Details of what information should be catalogued for each category is available in Appendix A. Your application should have a full Swing GUI which allows the user to choose a subcategory and enter information relevant to it.
The catalogue should have functionality enabling the user to add new items, view all items, and search the list by item number. The application should accept the necessary details from the user for their chosen items,
adding them to either an Array of Objects or ArrayList (you may choose your own data structure).

  1. For your given category and functionality, outline the class diagram. Be careful to adhere to
    appropriate syntax and structure and identify suitable data members and methods for each class.
    You may do this either by hand and take a photo, or by using draw.io or a similar application.
    (15 Marks)
  2. Using the Java programming language and the Netbeans IDE, develop the application outlined in your
    using your prescribed categories.
    Your solution must include:
    • a suitable App class (5 marks)
    • a full swing user interface (10 marks)
    • instantiable classes with suitable data members and methods (10 marks)
    • functionality to add a record to the data structure (10 marks)
    • functionality to display all of the contents of your data structure (10 marks)
    • functionality to search the data structure for an item by number (10 marks)
    • functionality to save all records in the data structure to a file (10 marks)
  3. Add the necessary functionality to your application as per your student number
    (10 marks)
  4. Document and run 5 Test Cases for your application
    (10 Marks)
    Submission Instructions:
    • All work must be submitted via Moodle.
    • All work must be submitted using a zipped folder named using your Student ID.
    • The zipped folder should include:
  5. A word document containing the completed Class Diagram and Test Cases
  6. The complete Netbeans project folder
    Page 3 of 3
    Instructions for selecting the correct Categories and Functionality:
    Your category will correspond to the last digit of your Student ID as follows:
    Digit Category
    1,2,3 Book Catalogue
    4,5,6 Car Catalogue
    0,7,8,9 Academic Reference Catalogue
    Descriptions for each category and its attributes are outlined in Appendix A.
    Your additional functionality will correspond to the second last digit of your Student ID as follows:
    Digit Functionality 1,3,5,7,9 Choose an item at random from the list and print the details
    0,2,4,6,8 Find and print the details of the last item on the list
    For example, If your student number is x1912874, then the last digit of your ID 4, so your category would be “4: Car Catalogue”. As the second last digit of your ID is7, you should add the functionality to “Choose an item at
    random from the list and print the details”.
    Appendix A: Category Descriptions
    Book Catalogue
    All books have an id number (i.e. 1), author (i.e. J.K.Rowling), title (i.e. Harry Potter) and cost (i.e.€9.50) but ebooks have a file format (i.e. ePub) and audio books have a narrator (i.e. Stephen Fry).
    Car Catalogue:
    All cars have an id number (i.e. 1), make (i.e. Toyota), registration (i.e. 07D54321) and price (i.e.€10,000) new cars also have a Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) amount (i.e. €500) and second hand cars have current mileage
    (i.e. 24,000km)
    Academic References Catalogue:
    All references have an id number (i.e. 1), author (i.e. Mr. Writer), year (i.e. 2020) and title (i.e. Java for
    Dummies) but book references also have an edition (i.e. 2nd Edition) and place (i.e. Ireland) while Journal
    Article references have a journal title (i.e. Journal of Java Stuff), volume (i.e. Vol 2) and pages (i.e. 29 – 33).
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Wet and Dry Pipe Sprinkler Systems Due

Watch the following video, and then respond to the questions.

Fire Sprinkler Systems Explained (YouTube/11:28)

What is the most widely used and available fire-extinguishing agent?
What are the five classifications for fire?
Explain how foam extinguishing agents extinguish fires.
If employees are required to use portable fire extinguishers in the event of a fire, what if any, training requirements must be met according to the textbook?
Explain the purpose of fire pumps.
What is a sprinkler system called (known as) that has continuous water under pressure?
How many classes of standpipe systems are there?
What effect does the Halogenated System have on the environment?
What classes of fires is a carbon dioxide extinguisher suitable for use and, if so, how does it extinguish the fire?
What is the purpose of a Fire Department Connection and why would it be used?

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