To MOOC or Not to MOOC
The Calderonia Technical Institute (CTI) offers degrees in math and business. CTI was established in the early 1900s under the patronage of Kester Calderon who made a fortune in steel and automobile manufacturing. The institute is well known for the rigor and content of its course offerings and is accredited by many of the reputed international agencies. Currently, 1000 students are admitted to the institute every year who come from all over the world.
With the spread of Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) technology, the institute recently became interested in evaluating its benefits for students. One of the core courses that all students are required to take at CTI is STAT 021. Even though the best and brightest faculty teach the course in small sections, the institute’s president strongly feels that the student learning performance can potentially be further enhanced by providing a MOOC as a supplementary resource in addition to the current regular lecture classes. The chairman of the curriculum committee at the institute also thinks that MOOC can be helpful in improving students’ overall understanding of statistics concepts and provide practical problem-solving skills since computers can generate a variety of questions through simulation and adapt to individual student level and speed of learning.
Upon an investigation, CTI came across a MOOC marketed by SoftStat Inc. that may be a good fit for its students. SoftStat is a silicon-valley based educational software company that recently came out with a program that supplements student learning in statistics. On further inquiry, the company representative visited the campus and made an impressive presentation to CTI administrators showing the various capabilities of the software and its potential benefits.
Last semester, the SoftStat offered 30 free licenses for students at CTI to try out the program. CTI created a section of STAT 012 consisting of 30 randomly selected eligible students. The class was conducted with the usual lecture format (that is without using a MOOC) until the midterm examinations were concluded. However, for the second half of the course, the students were asked to use the MOOC as a supplement to the lectures. Table 1 shows the midterm and final exams scores of each student. The campus president wants you to first analyze this data and conclude if there was any statistically significant increase in student scores with the use of the MOOC. Unless there is such a significant improvement in the scores, CTI doesn’t want to pursue the MOOC technology for the time being.
On the other hand, if the results indicate the MOOC was effective in enhancing student learning, the campus plans to license the software so long as the improvement in scores justifies the cost of licensing the MOOC. It has been determined that for each point score increase in the final, the student stands to improve his/her salary potential by $250 when they graduate and join the workforce. SoftStat quotes $1000 as license fee for each student.
Your task is to prepare a consultant’s report of about 4-5 pages (including Excel output). You will be graded according to the following criteria: i) Recognition of the statistical problem in the case and identification of the appropriate statistical method to be applied, ii) Ability to analyze the raw data in Table 1 using Excel, iii) Accuracy/interpretation/ explanation of the results to CTI management, and iv) Overall quality of writing, organization, presentation of the report.
Statistical Table.xlsx

In one page, please:

• define cultural responsive teaching and/or culturally responsive pedagogy
• explain why culturally responsive teaching is needed in a math class
• explain how research about the use of virtual manipulatives in mathematics is being culturally responsive

Please note that the focus should be elementary mathematics and it is strongly encouraged that the authors listed below are quoted.

Gay, G. (2000). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers: Successful teaching for African-American students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1995). Making mathematics meaningful in multicultural contexts. In W. G. Secada, E. Fennema & L. Byrd (Eds.), New directions for equity in mathematics education (pp. 126-145). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1997). It doesn’t add up: African American students’ mathematics achievement. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 67, 255-267.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2000). Principles and standards for school mathematics. Reston, VA: Author.

Tate, W. F. (1995). Returning to the root: A culturally relevant approach to mathematics pedagogy. Theory into Practice, 34(3), 166-173.

Tate, W. F. (2005). Race, retrenchment, and the reform of school mathematics. In E. Gustein & B. Peterson (Eds.), Rethinking mathematics: Teaching for social justice by the numbers (pp. 31-40). Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools Publication.

Assignment: When looking at “Variations in Sexual Behavior” chapter (14), how much or what would you be willing to compromise as it relates to your beliefs, situation,experiences, etc. with a partner. Are there behaviors that one may use that are“deal breakers” or can such behaviors be used to increase you and your partners sex lives.

The assignment must be typed. Purpose of the assignments is to explore one’s thoughts in hope to discover something about one’s self that he/she may not have been aware of after discussing a particular chapter in the textbook. assignment must be typed; double spaced, and must be 400-500 words in length.

Hello, please I need help in my ethic philosophy 2306 essay writing of about 1000 words. I’ll appreciate a good job from any of the tutor that wiould assist me in this work. Below are the instructions to the assignment.

Before doing this assignment, make sure to review the two Moral Frameworks The Good– which is Utilitarianism (Morality based on Good or Bad Consequences)– and The Right– which is Deontology (Morality based on Duty and Rights). Information on both is in Burnor & Raley, Ch. 6, 7 & 8.

For this assignment we will use a thought experiment like the Trolley problem we discussed in class.

Suppose you are a train conductor on a runaway train. The train heads straight for five men who will not have time to get out of the way, and your train will kill them. But! You notice there is a track going to the right, and you have just enough time to pull the lever and turn onto that track. There is one person on that track who will die just as assuredly as the five would if you stayed on their track. Should you head to the right?

You will write an essay of approximately 1000 words which describes what you think John Stuart Mill (or Bentham) would recommend that you do in the train scenario, what Immanuel Kant would do in the train scenario, and what you would do in the train scenario and why you would choose to do that. This paper requires that you use in-text citations for any quotations you include and that you create a references page citing all of the references that you quote in the paper. You may use MLA style citations (a guide to these can be found here).

Use the following guidelines to structure your paper. This is a kind of fill-in-the-blanks guide to writing this paper. Include the sentences in bold italic word for word in your paper. You will need several of your own sentences in addition to those provided below.

Introduction (1 or 2 paragraphs):

Your introductory paragraph should have the following (not necessarily in this order).

A. Thesis statement- You should state what you think is best to do in the situation described by the scenario. I think I should___________________. Fill in the blank with either divert the train to the right killing one person or not divert the train to the right even though this will result in the death of five people.

B. Background for the thesis. This should include mentioning that you will be evaluating what Utilitarianism and Deontology say about this thought experiment and a brief description of the thought experiment.

C. Plan of the Paper. It might help your reader to tell them how your paper will go. Something like: “I will begin by describing what John Stuart Mill would have me do in this situation. Next, I will contrast that with what Kant’s moral theory

Body Part I:

• John Stuart Mill would probably want me to ____________________,

• because _[explain one or more of the primary principles of Utilitarianism and how he would apply it to the train scenario to decide what I should do].

• As he says, “[pick a quote from your text that illustrates that specific principle]” (cite it too) and explain what the quote means in your own words,

• His reasoning here plants him firmly within the Moral Framework called “The ____________,” where morality is judged by looking at _______________________________

[Hint: the first blank should be either “good” or “right” and the second blank ought to be “consequences of our actions” or “what we have a duty to do.”]

Note: Mill largely agrees with Bentham and its probably the case that the higher v lower pleasures distinction is not relevant to this essay.

Body Part II:

• On the other hand, Kant reasons from framework called “The ___________,” where morality is measured by considering _________________
• [Hint: the first blank above should be either “good” or “right” and the second blank ought to be “consequences of our actions” or “what we have a duty to do.”]

• Thus, he would most likely tell me to ___________________

• For one thing, Kant’s moral theory requires us to follow the Categorical Imperative: [pick one of the formulations of the CI and offer Kant’s statement of it]” . (cite it too). (I’m asking for the principle of ends or the principle of universal law).
• What Kant means here is ______________________

• So, you can see that he is primarily concerned about _________________________ and he would probably conclude that I should ________________.

Body Part III:

• Personally, I think I should _______________________

• Even though I might share some of the values underlying _________’s position, like __________________________,

• I nevertheless would decide to _________________________________

• because __________________________________.

• My reasoning here seems to fall under the framework called “The __________” (or neither) because I am primarily focused on _________________________________

Conclusion:

Briefly summarizes your paper and reminds the reader of your thesis and how your argued for it.

No page requirment each instruent has to be at least half a page

The country & region where the instruments comes from

The structure and material

The type of music that is played on the instruments

The socio-cultural meaning of the instruments

Personalize each short essay briefly by writing about why you chose this
instrument and why it was/is interesting to you, etc. (open to interpretation)

Use CMS (Chicago Manual of Style) for listing sources only
needed at the end of each short essay.
o Last name, first name, period (on top left corner of first page of the paper)

Single spaced (Times 12)
o Divide into 5 clear sections, with appropriate headings in BOLD