Individual Assignment: Business Decision Making Project Part 1

Business Decision Making Project Part 1 Grading Guide

QNT/275 Version 6

Statistics for Decision-Making

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Individual Assignment: Business Decision Making Project Part 1

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of their ability to apply statistical concepts to business situations to inform data-driven decision-making. The project is a 3-week project, with part 1 in Week 3, part 2 in Week 4, and part 3 in Week 5. In Week 3, students identify the organization, problem, research variable, methods for collecting data, and show mastery of validity and reliability as applied to data-collection methods.

Resources Required

Week 3 videos; Week 3 readings; Statistics Lab

Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft® Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web offering support for Office products.

Grading Guide

Content	Met	Partially Met	Not Met	Comments:
Identified the name and description of the selected company.
Described the problem at that company.
Identified one research variable from that problem. Described the methods used for collecting a suitable sample of either qualitative or quantitative data for the variable.
Analyzed how the data collection method would generate valid and reliable data.
Paper is 1,050 words in length.
		Total Available	Total Earned
		4	#/4

Writing Guidelines	Met	Partially Met	Not Met	Comments:
Organization
The tone is appropriate to the content and assignment.
The introduction provides a sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
Paragraph transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the paper.
The conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points.
Mechanics
The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page, and reference page—is consistent with APA formatting guidelines and meets course-level requirements.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a reference page.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and punctuation.
		Total Available	Total Earned
		1	#1

Assignment Total	#	5	#5
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