Question: A LASA is a substantive assessment intended to measure students' performance against the selected course objectives and/or program outcomes within a course. LASAs are completed by all students across all Argosy University campuses and delivery formats without exception. Each LASA assignment contributes to a significant portion of the overall course grade and is assessed by faculty using the rubric designed for that assessment. These are individual assignments, and students earn individual grades. LASAs are not intended to assess students on every topic covered in the course but just on the key course objectives and/or program outcomes.
AssignmentProgram OutcomeCourse ObjectivesAssessment TypeScoring Tool
LASA 1: Interview Report
For this assignment, you need to identify and interview an administrator of a local nonprofit human services agency of your choice and write a 6- to 8-page report.
Directions: The report should contain:
• A list of all questions asked during the interview, along with their answers, addressing a typical day at work for the administrator.
• Analysis and examples regarding administrative challenges that are encountered on a daily basis by the administrator. Include challenges with regard to staffing, budgetary decisions, strategic planning, and alignment with the organizational mission.
• Evaluation of the political implications of the administrators work.
• Explanation of opportunities for collaboration that the administrator encounters. Specify how and by whom.
• Evaluation of future trends in the field of human services Discuss with relation to managed care, govemmental policy, funding, technological advances, and appropriate access to services.
Include a title and reference page and apply APA standards to the citation of sources including the use of in-text citations and full references.
Your report should rely upon at least three sources from additional professional literature. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks: peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov).
LASA 2: SWOT Analysis Report
In this assignment, you need to select a human services agency of your choice and conduct a SWOT analysis. Tasks:
Create a 10- to 12-page report, including the following:
• Analysis of the agency's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for future growth, and threats to its viability (SWOT)
• Application of appropriate organizational theories into the SWOT analysis of the agency
• Proposal for a new initiative along with 1-3 recommendations toward its implementation
• Identification of stakeholders and 1-3 strategies to use to advocate the approval of the new initiative
Include a title and a reference page in your report and apply APA standards to the citation of sources, including in-text citations and full references.
Your report should rely upon at least five sources from additional professional literature. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov).
In this course, two major assignments or LASAs make up 56% of your total class grade.
In the first LASA assignment, you are required to identify and interview an administrator of a local nonprofit human services agency of your choice and write a 6- to 8-page report. In the final LASA, you are required to select a human services agency of your choice and conduct a SWOT analysis. Your final report should be approximately 10-12 pages in length.
To ensure that you have carefully reviewed and planned how you will approach these major requirements, your final assignment in Module 1 is to review the descriptions of these requirements below and create a time line for accomplishing each of them during this course. See the rubrics listed at the end of the LASA descriptions.
Tasks: Create a 1- to 2-page paper by responding to the following:
• Carefully review the description of each of the critical projects, prepare a time line for completing all parts of them, and submit that time line to your instructor as described below.
• Identify the activities you will perform to complete the specified tasks. Describe these activities and state when you will complete each of these activities.
• In APA format, list the resources and information you will need to complete the tasks.