Explain what academic integrity is, and explain how you are prepared to meet the academic integrity standards at your nursing school

What is the difference between diminishing returns and decreasing returns to scale? What kind of returns to scale are possible in a school? Why?

Please describe Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.

How it may have an effect on the University School Flea Market (non-profit)

Describe the concept of cognitive bias and give an example of where you have seen this occur in your work or school life.

Please compare and contrast two schools of thought in psychology and discuss how each school would view or describe depression.

1. Construct a project charter for any project that you have ever worked on.  It can be for work, for school, or even somewhat fictitious.

An education researcher is interested in students’ performance on a standardised reading test. The researcher believes that if students experience a particular form of positive coaching, then they will be more likely to perform better on the reading test.

This researcher is testing two hypotheses. The first is that the coaching boosts self-efficacy and has an effect on students’ reading test scores. The second is that this treatment effect is moderated by year in school. Past research has suggested that there should not be a main effect for school year. However, to control for this possibility, a 2-way (2x2) factorial ANOVA is being conducted to account for any influence from school year, the treatment, and the interaction of the two main effects.

To test the hypotheses, the research has obtained 28 participants: 14 year-7 students and 14 year-10 students. From each group of 14, 7 students were randomly chosen for the treatment group. After the treatment, all students were given the same test. This test has been used in previous research, has a range of 0 to 100, and measures students’ reading comprehension. (The higher the test score, the more positive the result.)

Use a 2x2 ANOVA with α=0.01α=0.01 to test the the data and evaluate the hypotheses. Results are provided below for each group of students.

( 1a ) What is the F value for the treatment effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 2 decimal place.)

( 1b ) What is the p-value for the F value for the treatment effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 4 decimal places.)

( 1c ) Does this support the researcher's hypothesis that the treatment has an effect on reading comprehension?

• yes
• no

( 2a ) What is the F value for the school-year effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 2 decimal place.)

( 2b ) What is the p-value for the F value for the school-year effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 4 decimal places.)

( 2c ) Does this support the researcher's assumption that school-year does NOT have an effect on reading comprehension?

• yes
• no

( 3a ) What is the F value for the interaction effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 2 decimal place.)

( 3b ) What is the p-value for the F value for the interaction effect?  
(Report answer accurate to 4 decimal places.)

( 3c ) Does this support the researcher's hypothesis that the treatment effect is moderated by school-year?

• yes
• no

( 4 ) Based on these findings, which group can you say had the higher average on the test?

• year-7 students
• year-10 students
• group with no coaching
• group with positive coaching
• year-7 students in the control group
• year-10 students in the control group
• year-7 students in the treatment group
• year-10 students in the treatment group

A local school district cannot explain where all of the money that it receives from the state for operations is going. Although annual appropriations to the school district have been steadily increasing, funds available for school operations and equipment purchases have been decreasing. Consequently, you have been asked by the school board to investigate the situation.

During your interview with the local school superintendent, you discover the following about Jane Brown, the part-time bookkeeper who manages the school district’s finances:

• Jane has total control over the entire process of receiving, recording, depositing, and disbursing the district’s funds.
• Jane has declined offers by the superintendent to hire another part-time person to alleviate some of her workload.
• Jane is very protective of the financial records and, for “confidentiality reasons,” will not allow others to inspect them.
• Jane and her husband, John Brown, seem to be living a very nice lifestyle given their modest employment situations. Jane earns about $30,000 per year as the district’s part-time bookkeeper. John is “self-employed” and reports about $20,000 per year in net income.
• When first hired Jane often complained about how underpaid she was, although she has not complained recently.

In light of the above, you develop the fraud theory that Jane is embezzling funds from the school district. Accordingly, you request access to the financial records of the school district but are denied access due to “confidentiality issues.” Consequently, you must use an indirect method to test your fraud theory. The following information was collected to help test your fraud theory:

1. Exhibit 1 contains an estimate of the Brown’s net worth as of December 31, 2018.

2. Exhibit 2 contains an estimate of the Brown’s net worth as of December 31, 2019.

3. The Brown’s known sources of income during 2019 include:

Jane Brown                   $30,000

John Brown                  20,000

Investment Income            5,000

Total Income                $55,000

4. The Brown’s known expenditures during 2019 include:

Mortgage payments       $25,000

Airline tickets               10,000

Living expenses             30,000

Total Expenses             $65,000

Exhibit 1

Estimated Net Worth for Jane and John Brown

As of December 31, 2018

Exhibit 2

Estimated Net Worth for Jane and John Brown

As of December 31, 2019

Required: Estimate the Brown’s funds from unknown sources using: (1) the net worth method, and (2) the expenditures method. Note that for the expenditures method, increases in assets and pay offs of debt not reflected elsewhere are considered expenditures (e.g., the mortgage balance decreased by $40,000, and Brown's known mortgage expenditure in 2019 was $25,000; thus, $15,000 must also be an expenditure).