1000 Search Results for Standardized Testing in Education
Not only is a challenge present for Muslim teachers in attempting to standardize this curriculum but as well "this is compounded by the fact that curriculum materials related to teaching about Islam produced overseas - even for Arabic language studi Continue Reading...
DNA Technology in Law and Public Policy
The technologies of DNA science have revolutionized modern criminal law in every respect, from crime scene processing and case investigation to prosecutorial strategy and post-conviction appeals. The lightning Continue Reading...
Although the research tools provided by the ISO 14001 framework are both qualitative and quantitative, this approach is consistent with the guidance provided by Neuman (2003) who points out that, "Both qualitative and quantitative research use sever Continue Reading...
ADD/ADHD
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are both behavioral illnesses that are affecting a growing number of children and teenagers.
Currently, more boys than girls are diagnosed with ADHD. A nu Continue Reading...
Team members should communicate all relevant information to the Project Managers for the University of Arizona Medical Center and the CRM vendor chosen for the project.
Issues and risks should be communicated in writing via the Issues/Risk Log or Continue Reading...
Delphi Study: Influence of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives on Information Systems
Table of Contents (first draft)
Green IT
Current Methods and Solutions
Green IT and energy costs
Green It and Email Systems
Green IT and ICT
Green IT an Continue Reading...
CBVH then continues to work with VESID to assess performance on an ongoing basis, participate in on-site reviews, and provide technical assistance or recommend adjustments to contracts as needed.
In the near century that these agencies have been in Continue Reading...
Factors that affect an organization's capacity and willingness to change need to be examined and exploited. Organizational culture, which is a set of shared values and assumptions that are followed by the members of an organization, plays an import Continue Reading...
(Eljamal; Stark; Arnold; Sharp, 1999)
To conclude, it be said that if we will not be able to master imparting the capability to think in a developed form, our profession, as well as perhaps our world, would be influenced and taken over by someone w Continue Reading...
Alcohol and Highway Safety
Vehicle crashes have been accounted as the leading cause of death in the 15-20-age group of drivers and most of these crashes are alcohol-related. About 1/5 of all U.S. drivers admit to driving while or after drinking and Continue Reading...
marketing -- Test marketing is a way to take a specific group and test the viability of a product or service for that group. This may be done in many ways, through focus groups, home use, trials, short or long tests. There are numerous advantages an Continue Reading...
Though it is important that only fully trained and equipped first responders actively treat serious injury, in some areas there are simply not enough first responders to ensure that all accident victims receive adequate care in a timely fashion.
Th Continue Reading...
Marketing in Healthcare
Catholic Healthcare West
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving parts of Arizona, Nevada and the majority of California. With 42 hospitals it is the largest Catholic hospital syste Continue Reading...
Improving Customer Service on a Medical Surgical Nursing Unit
Quality Improvment Project-Customer service on the nursing unit
The hospital medical-surgical nursing unit is usually referred to as the "catch-all" department for different types of pat Continue Reading...
Consumer Behavior
Three types of needs are biological needs, utilitarian needs and hedonic needs. Biologic needs are those needed to sustain life (shelter, food, water). Utilitarian needs are those that "emphasize the objective, tangible attributes Continue Reading...
e. their self-perception would improve as compared with the experimental groups exposed to the attractively thin supposed competitor); and (3) the effect would be similar with respect to self-esteem and exposure to the images. The secondary hypothesi Continue Reading...
e. between 85 and 115) on a normal bell-shaped distribution.
An abbreviated four-subtest version of the WAIS-III (called the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI)) has been released enabling clinicians to perform a validated verbal, perf Continue Reading...
Dentistry
Critical Success Factors in the Field of Dentistry
The path to becoming a qualified dental professional is partially defined by the medical implications of the chosen career and partially defined by the business administration imperatives Continue Reading...
What It Takes to Succeed as an Entrepreneur: The Self-Assessment (Passion, Self-Discipline, Confidence and Strong Backbone)
Abstract
The debate concerning nature versus nurture remains unresolved, but a growing body of scholarship confirms that like Continue Reading...
Community Health Aides Model
Improving International Healthcare
"International Health-care system...What to do to improve the U.S.'s health system"
Global health organizations have been studying ways to create efficacious care within and across th Continue Reading...
American Meat Packing Corp., 362F.3d 418 (7th Cir. 2004).
On November 15, 2001, 350 workers at the American Meat Packing Corporation (AMPC) showed up for work and were told they had been terminated. Because they were not notified 60 days prior to te Continue Reading...
& #8230;Through language, children acquire a sense of who they are as well as a sense of their speech community" (Sulentic 2001, What Is Language? Section: ¶ 2). In addition, language serves as a venue for a particular people to transmit th Continue Reading...
In order to formulate effective early childhood development interventions, though, it is important to determine what risk factors are involved and what coping skills young children possess. In this regard, Pati and her associates add that, "Identify Continue Reading...
In light of the evidence in this literature review then it is of great import that monitoring of the health of pregnant women is vital in reference to LBW infants not only in the sense of present terms but as well to lifelong health considerations f Continue Reading...
Structural Theory
What is the chain of command in your organization?
In every school system, the primary individual who interacts with students is the teacher. Teachers can monitor student behavior such as withdrawal from peers, failing to complete Continue Reading...
Aptitude
One of the concerns in assessing general intelligence is that there is an over-emphasis upon verbal intelligence. Even if the test is not specifically a verbal IQ test, this is a concern given that fluency in the English language (and the Continue Reading...
Employment Discrimination at Wal-Mart
Foundation of the Study
This study examines the legislative and judicial climate that enables corporations like Wal-Mart to engage in practices that violate workers' rights. The popular consensus is that Wal-Ma Continue Reading...
After three weeks, crying was decreased in both groups, but the Lactobacillus reuteri infants demonstrated the greater reduction, from a mean of 370 minutes of crying per day at the beginning of the study to 35 minutes at the end. The placebo group' Continue Reading...
Licensing and Certifications
PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND CERTIFICATIONS
Under the laws of every state in the United States, certain professions require practitioners to obtain a license issued pursuant to state licensing guidelines.
Accountants, at Continue Reading...
TQM
Total quality management, also called TQM in short, is the process of organizing teams and processes for the purpose of bringing together individuals so that the quality was improved through training and new technology. The importance of this ac Continue Reading...
Parental Involvement on School Performance and Behavior
The concerns raised by a lack of parental involvement in the life of a young child, especially as it relates to schoolwork and behavior, are not new. They have been around ever since schools b Continue Reading...
Marketing Canon: Approaches Based on Principles for Influencing Decision Making in Firms
Operating in several geographical locations, quite a number of firms have many product lines, which many marketing scholars believe are ever confronted by myri Continue Reading...
Epidemiology of Elderly Driving Safety
Annotated Bibliography
Ball, K., Edwards, JD, Ross, LA, and McGwin, G. (2010) Cognitive Training Decreases Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement of Older Drivers. The American Geriatrics Society. Journal Compila Continue Reading...
history of crime measurement as well as the major strengths and limitations of current measurement techniques. I have also included the discussion regarding the importance of crime measurement in criminology. In the end, I have put emphasis on the n Continue Reading...
Civil Rights:
The Ricci v. DeStefano case is a U.S. Supreme Court case that was decided in June, 2009 and raises concerns regarding the steps employers may take in situations where the avoidance of discrimination against one group may imply discrimi Continue Reading...
Staffing Handbook, not an Employee Handbook
Remember that no more than 10% of the completed Handbook can be from borrowed material (so plan accordingly on any borrowed material used in the draft). The majority of the Handbook must be original -- me Continue Reading...
Discrimination
On the topic of discrimination, both the ACA and AACC codes of ethics go into considerable length and detail. However, their respective focus is substantially different, reflecting their underlying philosophical perspectives. For ex Continue Reading...
Health-Care Data at Euclid Hospital Security and Control: A White Paper
Protecting Health-Care Data
The efficiency of the modern healthcare system is increasingly becoming reliant on a computerized infrastructure. Open distributed information syste Continue Reading...
The Herzberg two-plane model that includes an upper plane of "motivator" factors, which are those factors that lead to high job satisfaction are compared to the "hygiene" factors that are enablers of stability in any work environment. Motivator fact Continue Reading...
Meta-Analysis of Nuclear Energy and Waste Disposal in Social Sustainability
A Dissertation Presented using the Meta-Analysis Technique
Komi Emmanuel Fiagbe Gbedegan
Christina Anastasia PH-D, Chair
[Committee Name], [Degree], Committee Member
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