997 Search Results for The Differences Between Assessments and Testing in Education
As emotionally intelligent employees are reportedly more content, conscientious and committed in the workplace, businesses and organizations are repeatedly advised to recruit and retain these individuals. Abraham (2006), nevertheless, reports that Continue Reading...
Presidential Fitness Testing
National Significance
Obesity and other lifestyle-related health problems have become increasingly fatal epidemics striking America's population in recent years. Though perhaps the most shocking and horrifying statistic Continue Reading...
EC Assessment & Intervention
Mission Statement
Partial Portfolio
Background Information Related to Diagnostic Test
Diagnostic Test -- Developmental Area of Concern
At the Playground.
At Home.
Developmentally Appropriate Instructional Goal Continue Reading...
Intelligence Testing
It is often essential to measure the human intelligence so as to provide special attention to the deficient ones. Being an abstract concept it is absurd to think of expressing its magnitude in numbers. However, expressing in ter Continue Reading...
Organizational Assessment as Impetus for Change at a Vet Center
Organizational Assessment as an Impetus for Change at a Vet Center
Organizational Context. Every type of organization has, or should have, as a major goal, the need to optimize the pro Continue Reading...
This study will look for a hospital which has a wide variation in terms of educational attainment of its nurses. The nursing population of this chosen hospital will then become the participants of this study. Only the currently-employed; full-time n Continue Reading...
Cultural Differences of Adolescent in the United States
The United States, ever since the time when its history began, has been an accumulation of different cultural patterns who took refuge here for independence in expressing the thoughts. Resilien Continue Reading...
In other words: Lead users are individuals who use a product that has a number of unknown needs and who also benefit if they find a solution to those needs. This is unique in that it takes a different approach to traditional market research -- inste Continue Reading...
country's public schools are experiencing dwindling state education budgets and increased unfunded mandates from the federal government, the search for optimal approaches to providing high quality educational services for students with learning disa Continue Reading...
Private Security Employment
Employment testing has emerged as a major component in today's hiring and recruitment processes because many employers are faced with an ever increasing competitive business environment. Employers are increasingly utilizi Continue Reading...
IQ Testing
(Literature Review of comparison of 5th edition of the Binet Scale to the WAIS III)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Wechsler Intelligence Scales III
A vital part of psychology is the assessment of intelligence. Creation of socioecon Continue Reading...
Graham, M. (2007). Art, ecology and art education: locating art education in a critical place-Based pedagogy. Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research, 48(4): 375-391.
This study situates place-based education in the context of cri Continue Reading...
MILITARY DEPLOYED PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDYbyEder G. BennettLiberty UniversityA Dissertation Presented in Partial FulfillmentOf the Requirements for the DegreeDoctor of EducationLib Continue Reading...
60.2% of white inmates were executed that had initially been removed from being under a sentence of death versus 38.9% of blacks that met these criteria as part of the sample. While this cross-tabulation shows there is not a statistically significan Continue Reading...
Type 2 Diabetes among Asian Americans: Effectiveness of a Culturally Tailored Diabetes Education ProgramPICOT question: In Asian Americans with type 2 diabetes (P), does a culturally tailored diabetes education program, including patient-specific die Continue Reading...
Curriculum Development in Nursing Education Knowledge and Skills
Curriculum Development Issue in Nursing Education, Knowledge and Skills
Nurses make use of wide-ranging theories, models, knowledge and skills in nursing practice. Both their skills a Continue Reading...
Diabetes and Special Education in School
Characteristics and Definition of Diabetes
The Centers for Disease Control 2005 survey reports that 21 million individuals or 7% of the total U.S. population have Diabetes. Furthermore, it is reported that o Continue Reading...
Huntington's disease (HD) was the first autonomic dominant disorder for which genetic prediction became possible" (Harper, et al., 2000, Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 567). HD is a disease that occurs due to an inherited disorder leading to the dea Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Act
Both the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are fairly controversial pieces of legislation, particularly in the varying realms of public education that they affect. The former Continue Reading...
Responsiveness to Intervention
Delivering adequate resources to children with learning differences is not some haphazard undertaking. On the contrary, it requires a predetermined plan and the sufficient combination of a number of different entities Continue Reading...
Diet on a University Student's Psychological Well-being
This article provides a research proposal for a study to be conducted on the impact of a diet on the psychological well-being of a university student. The paper proposes conducting an experime Continue Reading...
American Family
In today's high tech digital virtual world understanding the family matrix has never been more difficult. On a daily basis family units are continually bombarded by stimuli that can and do affect their educational, moral, and cultur Continue Reading...
Murray characterizes educational romantics as people who believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive and has little to do with their intellectual capacity. Educational romantics believe th Continue Reading...
Stage 1 or Understanding the Problem
The RUP recommends using business use cases for locating purposes which have two qualities:(1) easy to understand and (2) easy for the client to use. The RUP does not clarify how these "use cases" should be ana Continue Reading...
Metacognition and Academic Achievement in College Students
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METACOGNITION AND ACADEMI
Constituent Elements of Metacognition
Metacognitive Awareness Inventory
Gender differences in metacognitive skills
Relationship to Oth Continue Reading...
prediction so we have to assume that the research question is nondirectional. In this case the research question is that there will be a difference in the rate of people to get the flu depending on whether or not they get the nasal spray or the shot Continue Reading...
transforms correlations among a set of observed variables into smaller number of factors, containing essential information about the linear inter-relationships among the original test scores (Kriegel, Kroger, Sander, & Zimek, 2011). Factor analy Continue Reading...
Now we have examined two extremes in educational thought that have developed over the past century. Teacher centered and student centered philosophies differ significantly in their approach to the student-teacher relationship. Teacher centered phil Continue Reading...
While some suggest that high-stakes testing is an inadequate way of measuring the academic achievement and learning of most students, many also agree that high-stakes testing has severe disadvantages for special education students. Kymes points out Continue Reading...
functional literacy activities? What are some examples?
Functional literacy activities refer to activities that focus on reading or writing in direct connection to actual tasks that can be easily applied or used in the real world. For example, func Continue Reading...
Professional Student Athletes
The Raw Numbers
Eligibility
Advantages of Sport
Research Questions or Research Hypotheses
Selection of Subjects
Assumptions or Limitations
Data Processing and Analysis
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). Wit Continue Reading...
Good researchers tend to pull methods out of a tool kit as they are needed" (2006, p. 54). Notwithstanding these criticisms and constraints, though, most social researchers seem to agree that classification by some type of research paradigm is a use Continue Reading...
K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century
This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem Continue Reading...
p.). For the classroom teacher, an instrument with validity will satisfy these parameters.
Content-Based Assessments
1) What evidence should be provided that learners have mastered content?
When teachers give content-based assessments, they are me Continue Reading...
Large Scale Assessments are tests that are administered to large numbers of students, at the city, state, or district level. They are designed not so much to render individual measurement for the instructor (although this is not true for college bo Continue Reading...
Unit 3
Question
What types of research question(s) can best be addressed through the use of case studies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the case study approach?
The case study approach is favored in many research studies in the so Continue Reading...