Week Four: Policy Evaluation (15 Points)
Readings Review Ch. 4–5 of the Cooper et al. text.
Review Ch. 6–7 of the Fowler text.
Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Participation Participate in class discussion.
Wed, April 20th, 2011 1
Discussion Questions Respond to weekly discussion questions.
Sat, April 23rd, 2011 2
Individual
Policy Evaluation Summary Your business or school struggles under two federal policies. Several members of management have come to you, as chief policy advisor, with complaints. You decide to evaluate the policies and offer general recommendations for improving the policies to help remedy the concerns.
Develop a general framework for evaluating a policy. Points might include but are not limited to the economy, demographics, political climate, or ethics.
Choose two federal policies and apply your framework to each. Visit www.ed.gov for examples. You may use one of these policies for your Week Eight assignment.
Access the Policy Evaluation Worksheet and the Policy Framework Worksheet on the student website.
Complete both worksheets as you evaluate the policies against the framework.
Write a 350-700-word policy evaluation summary to inform management of the implications each policy holds for your organization or industry.
Support your findings with the framework analysis from your Policy Framework Worksheet and the conclusions you formed on the Policy Evaluation Worksheet.
Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit the policy evaluation summary and worksheets to your Learning Team forum. Sun,April 24th, 2011 15
Individual
Weekly Reflection Each week in this course, you will engage your thoughts and abilities as a scholar, a practitioner, and a leader to advance your knowledge and personal academic agenda. These weekly reflections help you position yourself as a reflexive thinking scholar, practitioner, and leader. Consider saving these weekly statements, which serve as a critical reflection upon your growth as a scholar, practitioner, and leader throughout the program.
Create a reflective and applied statement describing how the week’s learning has affected your thought processes, development, and professional disposition. This statement should reflect your personal learning process—challenges, moments of discovery, life experiences, and interactions. You may also include questions for the course facilitator regarding material that may still be unclear in your reflection. Ideally, you will use these reflections throughout the course and the program to document your development as a scholar, practitioner, and leader, and to reflect critically on the changes that occur during this process.
Format any citations and references in your reflective statement consistent with APA guidelines.
Reply to the thread designated for Weekly Reflections, and post your response in the body of the post, not as an attachment. Mon, April 25th, 2011 1
