TOPIC: Asking good Questions

USE: ARTICLES

You will be assigned to a Professional Learning Community (PLC) group that will investigate a Special Topic. 

Make sure to complete the following steps: 

1. Read and research the topic assigned to you. Your research may include professional articles, official websites, books, videos, pictures, etc. Sources such as Wikipedia will not be accepted because they are not reliable. 

2. prepare a  PowerPoint presentation to share the information you have discovered about your special topic with the rest of the members in this course. 

3. Upload your PowerPoint 

Below is an example of the power point I will need using articles instead of websites.

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to develop a rubric for emergent reading skills in four year old children. 

Directions: 

For this assignment, you will : 

1. Design a developmental rubric for emerging reading skills in four-year-olds following the guidelines below. 
2. Find benchamrks (you'll see them listed under the four objectives) for beginning readers to develop the characteristics for different stages of development. First study the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds. Click here to List five benchmarks of the Emergent Reader (section F) (pages 6-7) and use them as your goals. 
3. Organize the rubric into three levels. 
4. Next, determine what the child will be able to do to accomplish each level of the rubric. 

 Ethics in Research - discussion 1

Ethics plays an important role in conducting of research. While the individual researcher is responsible for his/her ethical practice, any research sponsored by an organization, university, or government program has a review process guided by a code of ethics.  Besides the code of ethics, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) plays an important role in monitoring research.  Your task in this discussion is to examine the origins of the IRB and analyze how the Review Board guides or monitors research.  In your 250 word post answer the following three questions:

• What does the IRB do to protect a research participant from harm?
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• One of the reasons for the existence of the IRB has to do with screening research applications. What is the basis for such screening?
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• The IRB provides the guidelines for ethical research practice. What would the researcher res