Blog #22: Final 3-Column Chart

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Blog #21: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Gawen Grunloh, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) The ALEKs website, with the various assessments and practice problems that were explained to me, were my best teaching and learning source for this component. 
(c) Log of my time spent on ALEKs. 
(d) I completed 30 hours of course work on the ALEKs course for Statistics of Behavioral Science, which is outlined here. 

INTERPRETIVE 
I have screenshot of different intervals of myPie progress as well as the attendance report for the course work. My initial assessment was at 18%, my first checkpoint assessment showed that my acquired  knowledge had doubled to 36%, and my second assessment showed an increase to 44%. I consider all of this good considering that I learned all of the material from ALEKs as I went along. 

My Pie chart when I first began the Behavioral Science course. 

My Pie chart at 15 hours, about halfway through my work. 

My Pie chart when I completed the 30 hours. 

My total time spent each day as well as each topic mastered.

My progressed on the assessments in between topic lessons. 

This list shows the total amount of hours I spent on Aleks  as well as the topics that I mastered in that time. 

APPLIED
The course work at ALEKs helped me to understand how statistics work and how to best interpret statistical reports. Probability in populations is a large part of understanding crimes that could be committed within a certain community. Furthermore, this course work gave me a head start on understanding the work that I want to major in while in college; Political Science. 

Blog #20: Three Column Chart

Three Column Logic chart

Blog #19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. I have done my best in the Effective Communicator ESLR. 
2. I believe I have done the best in this ESLR because of my communication with both the teachers in regard to my project ideas and communication with my peers in senior project ideas and ASB related functions.
3. This picture of an extensive email conversation I had with Mrs. Pittman shows how much I had to communicate to figure out my 3 answers as well as the parameters for my Independent Component 1. 

Blog #18: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?2.  Obey chain of command and understand how to process each piece of evidence. 
3.  
a) Evidence is useless if it is not admissible in court.
b) Each type of evidence needs to be handled differently from fingerprints to testimony.
c) Evidence requires signatures from everyone it comes in contact with to avoid being labeled as contaminated. 4.  Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2009. Print.
5.  I plan to study the whole process of taking a piece of evidence from the crime scene to the courthouse to fully understand how meticulous the chain of command is. 

Blog #17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?

2. What methods of interrogation do you use?

3. How is questioning witnesses different from questioning suspects?

4. What do you recommend if a suspect is being difficult with questions?

5. What is your worst case scenario in an interrogation?

6. What is the chain of command for evidence?

7. What are some examples of evidence contamination? 

8. What has been your experience with evidence contamination?

9. What type of evidence do you believe is easiest to contaminate?

10. What type of evidence do you believe is most difficult to contaminate?

11. How do you best tell when a subject is lying?

12. Discuss the various types of evidence and how it is collected 

13. Discuss how the evidence will be examined 

14. Discuss the types of information the evidence can provide

15. What is the mindset of the investigator?

16. Discuss the innovative applications used in criminal investigations.

17. What happens if evidence is lost due an investigator's error?

18. What kind of training does one have to go through?

19. What are some of the challenges when dealing with informants? 

20. How would you determine if a specific informant is the right fit for the investigation? 

Blog #16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is the most essential factor in solving a criminal investigation?
2. Properly collecting and preserving evidence.
3. During a criminal investigation, so much information can be gathered from processing the evidence at the crime scene. DNA analysis can be taken from tissue samples, fingerprints can be lifted off of surfaces, and fibers can be compared. The physical evidence will also never lie where a suspects testimony might. 
4. (Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2009. Print.) A book that goes over the importance of forensic sciences in the United States.
5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by finding some form of online course that teaches the basics of forensic investigation.