Measurement and Reporting

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Measurement and Reporting

This week you will wrap up your learning from this term. You  will assume the role of an evaluator for your workplace or one in which  you are familiar. You will draft a progress report that includes  measures and reports. Your work will describe and assess the plan for  the acceptance and use of an evaluation system and/or scorecard. In  addition, you will choose an evaluation system that you feel is best  suited for the work environment. Your paper will determine the stage of  development for the evaluation system and will provide an analysis and  recommendation plan for improving the evaluation system within the  workplace. In conclusion, summarize how the use of an evaluation is an  essential indicator of organizational health.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write at least 4 pages using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course  material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and  other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward  the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes,  paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference  page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals  found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street  Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo  Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).
Download an example here.