To prepare:

• Reflect on this week’s experiences with your team.

Assignment

Complete your journal entry for this week in your Personal Journal, reflecting on your experiences with the team process for this week.

• How is it going?
• What are you learning about yourself?
• What are you learning about the team process?
• What seems to be working well? Not so well?
• How might you continue to support your team’s development and ongoing progress?
• What more may be needed to enhance the team process?
• Share any other thoughts you may have.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts, in which you critique and/or provide suggestions for your colleague’s design (e.g., how to identify a viable comparison team) and to reduce threats to internal validity with this design.

Note: You are not required to respond to a colleague who is on the same evaluation team that you are on.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.

To prepare:

• Review Chapter 10 from your course text listed in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (2016) from this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider how you might develop a program evaluation based on quasi-experimental design.
• Consider the variables and hypotheses you might want to test as part of your program evaluation. Also, what are potential threats to internal validity that might be associated with this kind of program evaluation design?

Post your comprehensive response to each of the following:

• Briefly restate the general nature of your team’s RFP’s program (e.g., school anti-bullying program).
• How might you use a quasi-experimental design to test a question that would be relevant to your program evaluation (e.g., comparing age or gender groups or two preexisting programs)? What is a specific question you could address for your example?
• Describe the specifics of your design for addressing this question. What is your independent variable? What might be a viable dependent variable to answer the question? What hypothesis would you be testing for the proposed evaluation?
• What would be one method you might use to reduce threats to internal validity with this design?

To prepare:

• Consider the following scenario:

You have been asked to conduct an interview with a juvenile who posted on social media that he plans to “merk” (murder) a classmate who he believes stole his girlfriend. Some of his peers saw the posting and alerted their parents who called law enforcement. The juvenile is now detained, charged with felony terroristic threating via electronic media. On arraignment, the judge has denied bail and deemed that he is a danger to others. As such, the judge further remanded him to remain in a detention setting during the process of adjudication. You have been tasked with assessing his level of risk/dangerousness for appropriate facility placement.  

• Review the “Juvenile Interview Case and Template” document in the Learning Resource and use it to consider the level of dangerousness of the juvenile in the scenario and what might be an appropriate facility placement for him.
• Review the Kaltura interactive media resource in the Learning Resources, as you will be creating a video post for this Discussion.

Post your 3- to 5-minute video response to the following:

• What information would you want to review prior to interviewing a juvenile?
• Explain how you would alter your interviewing style to accommodate a juvenile.
• Explain the techniques that you would use to gain trust with the juvenile, set a positive tone, and determine his or her level of dangerousness.
• List 3 or 4 questions that you would ask the juvenile and explain your rationale for choosing the questions.

Note: Your posted video should be substantial, supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA style.