. In the lecture notes about higher education, there’s an example showing the net present value of getting a bachelors degree. This includes a box with some text that goes something like this, “Is This Poor Analysis a Result of the Instructors Laziness or His Ignorance? For a fun, in-class exercise, how many problems can you identify with the analysis presented above? There are at least two that I know of, excluding the issues presented below.” A. For the student in question, there is an important cost of attending college that is not included in the calculations, although it is mentioned in the lecture notes. As a hint, the usual assumption is that a student who finishes in four years is going to school full time and not engaged in other things. B. The cost of room and board is included as a cost of attending college. Should it be? C. Oh, yeah, what is the marginal cost of having one more student in a class? Should the analysis of attending college be based on the average cost or the marginal cost of college attendance?

Students’ interactions with universities create large amounts of data. The data is generated in several main areas. Firstly, students provide data as part of their application and enrolment process, including entrance and demographic data. Secondly, students’ interactions with the school website generate data, and thirdly, students’ performance data is collected in the student information system. Universities can use this data in many ways by combining and aggregating the data from these difference sources and analysing it for patterns, trends and causal relationships between certain behaviours and outcomes.
Note: (For this, you will have to google "Learning Analytics" if you don't specifically know what it is.)

Q1. Discuss the benefits that could arise to students from Learning Analytics.

Q2. Discuss the benefits that could arise to a university from Learning Analytics.

Q3. Describe some possible negative outcomes for students from Learning Analytics.

Q4. Do you think the collection and analysis of student-relating data is ethical?

The city of Kansas City establishes a delivery truck that provides service to other departments, all of which are accounted for in its general fund. During its first year of operations the shop engages in the following transactions:

It purchases equipment at a cost of $50 million and issues long-term notes for the purchase price. The useful life of the equipment is eight years, with no residual value.

It purchases supplies at a cost of $8 million. Of these it uses $3 million. In its governmental funds, the district accounts for supplies on a purchases basis.

It incurs $15 million in other operating costs.

It bills other departments for $25 million.

For purposes of external reporting, school district officials are considering two options:

-Account for the vehicle repair shop in an internal service fund

-Account for the vehicle repair shop in the general fund

1. Record the transactions for the print shop assuming (1) the city selected the first option (2) the city selected the second option.

Your daughter just turned 4 years old. You anticipate she will start University when she turns 18. You would like to have funds in a registered education savings plan (RESP) to fund her education at that time. You anticipate she will spend 6 years in university, and it will cost $20,000 per year. She will need the $20,000 at the start of each school year. When she graduates (debt free) you would also like her to have $40,000 for a down payment on a condo or to travel. If the account promises to pay a fixed interest rate (APR) of 6% per year with monthly compounding, how much money do you have to deposit each quarter to ensure you will have enough when she starts university? Assume you will make the same deposit at the end of each quarter until she starts university.

1. A researcher wishes to examine the relationship between wage earned and educational level of workers. For a sample of 4000 workers she has data on hourly earnings (measured in SAR), age of the worker (in years), worker’s gender, years of experience, number of years with the present employer, size of the firm in which the worker is employed, and highest educational qualification (with 4 classifications: no qualification, secondary school certificate, bachelor degree or PhD)

1. Explain how you would set up a model to address the researcher’s key interest.
2. Based on your model, how would you estimate the predicted impact on wages of holding a PhD compared to having a bachelor’s degree.
3. If the researcher uses ln(wage) as the dependent variable, how would the estimated coefficients be interpreted?
4. What general advice would you give the researcher in relation to her work – eg. what econometric issues should she be aware of in conducting this research and interpreting the results?

Review the Client Profile below.

Client Profile: Jamie Summers

Age: 53

Gender: Female

Resting Heart Rate: 90 bpm

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 165 lb

Body Fat Percentage: 35%

Background and Goals: Jamie is a working mother of three teenagers. She has not been consistently active for many years. She was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure, which is likely caused by her high-stress corporate job and physical inactivity. She also has an affinity for processed and sugary foods. Jamie was recently told by her doctor that she needs to start exercising, eating better, and just simply taking better care of herself or else she is on her way to additional health problems. Jamie will be attending her oldest daughterÕs high school graduation in three months and wants to use the event as a goal date in which to make significant progress in her health.

BMI: 27.5

1. As a pulmonary nurse, a significant proportion of your nursing care is spent in dealing with patients who have sleep disturbances, some resulting in the need for a sleep study. The patient with whom you are collaborating is a nursing student who is in his final year of nursing school and is “constantly sleepy.” The student describes his frequent inability to sleep and only getting 2 to 3 hours of sleep per night for the last 4 months. His wife, accompanying him to this appointment, reports he snores loudly and during a large percentage of his sleep time. (Learning Objectives 6 and 7)
   1. Which factors in the nursing student’s life could be contributing to his sleeplessness?
   2. Outline sleep hygiene recommendations that could increase his sleep time.
   3. How would you categorize the patient’s insomnia?
   4. What signs indicate the possibility of sleep apnea?
   5. List appropriate etiologies for sleep deprivation nursing diagnoses for this patient.

Questions for: Civic Disturbance in City Hall/ Sentinel City.

1. Create a report that describes the potential public health effects and environmental hazards related to the civic disturbance.
2. Describe the members and roles of the emergency response team and organizations (public and private) that could be activated in Sentinel City^®.
3. Present an analysis of the risks and benefits of social media responses from the area.
4. Select a healthcare practice setting, such as urgent care clinic, school, or hospital unit (ER, Surgery, Critical Care, or Medical/Surgical Unit). Create two communication messages for social media that would be shared during the response and recovery phases from your practice setting. Explain how you would address family members or the media arriving in your department.
5. Identify at least three evidence-based considerations for each phase of emergency management that should be included in the emergency management plan for your selected practice setting.

1. For e ach variable, decide if the variable is qualitative or quantitative, discrete or continuous and decide the level of measurement (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval or Ratio).   

Two of your employees, Chelsea and Vivian have been working full-time for you since last year. Chelsea is about to start a family and Vivian will be going back to school part-time in the Fall for her accounting degree. Both of them have told you that they need to reduce their working hours, but would like to keep their jobs. Your business is very steady and so you know that you need two full-time staff to be working. You have recently hired one more staff member, Ambika. Your best option that will disrupt your business the least while keeping your current employees happy is:

Select one:

a. Offer job sharing to Chelsea and Vivian.

b. Let Ambika and Vivian work virtually.

c. Offer job rotation to all three.

d. Give Ambika overtime at 1.5 times her regular pay rate.