Quick Response BRAINSTORM

Quick Response BRAINSTORM

Please respond to each of the following questions SEPARATELY

1. This week, you start learning about QuickBooks. Based on your readings and common knowledge, what do you know about QuickBooks? How do you think it makes it easier for a small business to manage their company’s finances? What are you most anxious about over the next five weeks while learning QuickBooks?

2. Select two of the scenarios below. Write one evaluation question and include a rationale for each of the questions.

Write an evaluation question for the following strategy: Provide conflict resolution training for teachers.

Write an evaluation question for the following early objective: Increase the number of teachers trained in conflict resolution.

Write an evaluation question for the following intermediate objective: Improve teacher knowledge of conflict resolution strategies.

Write an evaluation question for the following long-term goal: Decrease the number of student conflicts.

Discuss what differentiates nonexperimental, quasi-experimental, and experimental evaluation designs. What are the most significant differences? Which design do you consider to be the most rigorous and why?

3. Imagine that you were designing a curriculum evaluation to involve a conversation with a principal, a survey of 30 teachers, and one classroom observation. Discuss the data collection method you would employ. Include your rationale for your particular choice.

4. QuickBooks and Excel have made the job of an accountant much easier. Imagine a time when there were no computers, or programs like QuickBooks or Excel. What were some of the challenges an accountant faced trying to manage a company’s finances without software programs? Do any of those challenges still exist today despite the technology?