SBUs C. And D. are the cash cows necessary to fund the growth of SBUs a and B. The dog of the group, SBU E, provides no net cash flow and adds no value to the overall product mix. The European distance learning center's current product mix is relati Continue Reading...
NEBOSH Unit D According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the cost of workplace injuries and disease is in excess of $20 billion dollars per year. Obviously, these figures are alarming and would suggest that Occupational Health and Safety (O Continue Reading...
Business Studies Strengths and Weaknesses of Kraft Foods Kraft Foods is a major U.S. firm that has undergone change in recent years. To assess the firms' current position, as well as look to the potential for future strategies, a common tool is a S Continue Reading...
PSYCHOLOGY Psychology: Senior PortfolioForeword/ IntroductionThere are unexplained things that a human mind can do that still need exploration in the field of Psychology. I am in awe of the type of most unexpected organ of the body can do with the bo Continue Reading...
Authentic Assessment By authentic assessment, we mean all the different forms of assessments/evaluations that show students achievement, learning, attitudes, and motivation on all instructionally applicable classroom works. In this era of accountabi Continue Reading...
Technology in Higher Education Why use Technology in a College Classroom? Author Linda B. Nilson does not posit that technology suits all student needs nor does she assert that technology is helpful to all types of students. But in a survey involvi Continue Reading...
Bias High stake assessments High stake assessments are purposed to improve the achievement of students. They are aimed at holding individuals accountable for their performance in the tests. However, the system is far from achieving its goals. The Continue Reading...
Education The three main types of assessments for the Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance Level 3 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector qualification specifically gauge whether or not a pedagogue understands the three primary compon Continue Reading...
Staff Development and Student Performance Staff Development: An Overview State Standards for Staff Development Progressive Trends in Staff Development Recommended Guidelines for Successful Implementation Georgia's Example It stands to reason t Continue Reading...
Community Colleges in America In 1983 and 1984, a dozen major reports on the United States' schools were published. All stressed the need for "excellence" in education. These reports are the subject of: Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Polic Continue Reading...
There were also notable evaluation pointers, with a constant feedback mechanism used in order to further improve the learning process and the teaching skills. One should, however, note, among issues to be improved in the future, the inability to un Continue Reading...
Of great benefit is the accompanying activity sheets that can be easily copied for use in the classroom setting. The work also goes even further by informing users through a presentation of the most important language skills to be learnt. This is su Continue Reading...
Time to develop and use assessments effectively must be built into the teachers' work week. They are time-consuming, but worthwhile, and should not be administered as an afterthought. The results tell us a great deal about students and ourselves. It Continue Reading...
Vaughn et al. (2003) report that the identification of LD students has increased upwards of 200% since 1977, with explanations ranging from a likely outcome of the growing knowledge field, to LD as a field serving as a sink for the failures of gene Continue Reading...
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts. The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lac Continue Reading...
Learning Objectives for Adult Education Managing and Exploiting the Impact of Classroom Diversity in Adult Arts Education As the American population becomes increasingly diverse, so goes classroom diversity (Cooper, 2012). By the end of the current Continue Reading...
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Learning through Social interaction What personal experiences do you have with assessments? While teaching middle school in San Diego, California, many of my colleagues, encouraged by worried administrators (who feared a loss of funds) were simply Continue Reading...
The strategy must also include making sure curriculum material is not identical between students but allows the student certain creative license to demonstrate interests in and outside of the test materials. The difficulty I see in the field with re Continue Reading...
The issue involves one institution awarding PLAR credits, and when a student then transfers to a similar program at another institution or applies to a higher level program after graduating, the second institution may not recognize the PLAR credits. Continue Reading...
In fact, one of the most important functions of assessments is measuring the efficacy of any given lesson. If most students in the class perform poorly on an assessment, the nature or structure of the lesson might be to blame. McMillan (2007) point Continue Reading...
The third step is creating which is doing. It is taking action on what you find, what you suspect, what you think will make a difference. The last step is confirming. In this stage, you are evaluating your efforts, learning from feedback, and starti Continue Reading...
Adults With Learning Disabilities It has been estimated (Adult with Learning Disabilities) 1 that 50-80% of the students in Adult Basic Education and literacy programs are affected by learning disabilities (LD). Unfortunately, there has been little Continue Reading...
diversity of learning styles and needs represented in a typical 21st century classroom. As the United States continues to see an increase in multi-ethnic, multinational populations, the children of immigrants that bring diverse cultures and ethnicit Continue Reading...
Overall accountability should be much more holistic including both qualitative and quantitative assessment information. Administrators Evaluation of the Success of Assessment and Instruction? Administrators and managers should have a large breadth Continue Reading...
No high-achieving nation tests every child, every year, in the way we're currently doing. They have much more intellectually ambitious assessments [or measuring not just memory but what students can do with knowledge]. -- Ed Finkel, 2010 As the Continue Reading...
Classroom Management, and Organization Plan for a Pre-K Trainable Mentally Handicapped (TMH) class with students ages 3-5. The plan reflects one's leadership and management style in order to develop a comprehensive plan for effective classroom manag Continue Reading...
Dynamic curriculum offers diversity, growth, caring, self-care, development, adaptation, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and a way in which relevance for future practice can be identified. By including all the important concepts, the cu Continue Reading...
21-32; Lyster et al., 1999, pg. 457-467). Chaudron (1986, pg. 64-84) explained that the error correction exercise might not have statistical backup on its constrictive impact but nonetheless has proven to have a beneficial impact on the overall comm Continue Reading...
Communicative Language Teaching the Best Methodology to Prepare Students for the Cambridge First Certificate Exam? Based on its emphasis on authenticity and relevancy to students' lives, it has been argued that the communicative language teaching a Continue Reading...
American public education system has endured many changes in the last few decades. It has gone from back to basics, to whole language learning, and then back to basics again. The system is constantly being scrutinized by the parents who send their c Continue Reading...
S. Bibliography Abdal-Haqq, I. (1995, June). Professional standards development: Teacher involvement. Retrieved July 28, 2009, from ERIC Digests - ED383693: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/fd/a6.p Continue Reading...
Teacher evaluation is a controversial topic. It is often thought by the general public and even some educators that once a teacher rises to a certain level there is little incentive to alter practices based on current research or training and even mo Continue Reading...
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The research of Wofendale (1991) demonstrated the effectiveness of parents who provided support for the learning process of their child and holds that involvement in schools by parents is likely the primary indicator of performance of the child in s Continue Reading...
Nursing Theories Practices Nursing Theories Sister Callista Roy initiated the Adaptation Model of Nursing in 1976. The theory has since then evolved to be one of the prominent nursing theories. The nursing theory defines and explains the nursing ca Continue Reading...
To generalize the results a passing population would need to be studied as well as a larger group over a longer period. One limitation that may have been missing from the study's own assessment of limitations is that the penalization of attending su Continue Reading...
Teaching philosophy is a reflective statement of a teacher's core beliefs about classroom practices, pedagogical approaches, and the purpose of education. A considered and well-articulated teaching philosophy guides instructors in creating an environ Continue Reading...
