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Integrating Assessment to Support Learning

deficits. In the past, evaluative methods were designed largely to sort students. This definition of assessment requires strategie...

Training Program For McDonald's Franchisees

to the corporate values. Service to customers will be given quickly and respectfully. This inherently means the owners, managers a...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

Lessons of Travel in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...

Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge

(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...

A Career in Multimedia Programming (First Person, Interview Based Essay)

interviewing people who have also had the same major that I will learn what I might expect after graduation. II. The Interviews ...

Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Montessori, Piaget

experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Ogbu and Delpit Article Analyses

and the multicultural education movement are two major factors in todays educational landscape. According to Ogbu, both of these m...

An Article on Higher Learning Curriculum Critiqued

that multicultural education should include the "religious and spiritually based concepts of reality" that are fundamental to othe...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Helping The Shy Student

the next child but do not make any comment or use any other signal to indicate irritation or negativity (Malouff, 2007). In older ...

Hoffman and Rodriguez on Bilingualism

in the form of dialogues that she has between her English self, Eva, and her Polish self, Ewa. One gathers from the context of the...

Academic Day/Meeting with Teachers

The teacher who pointed this problem out to me was very sympathetic and helpful. I had a good impression of this teacher from the...

Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

Limited-Term Employment Contracts : Spain

pay during maternity leave (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Every member of the European Union is subje...

Interview, Moroccan Immigrant

had largely assimilated with each other. In discussing the differences between the US and Morocco, Sada also mentioned the differe...

Importance of Evidence-Based Practice

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

Barbara Ehrenreich and Learning from Men

great writer who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. She is the author of Nickel and Dimed, about surviving on minimum wag...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Contemporary Relevance of Three Plays by Moliere

In five pages this essay examines Moliere's The Learned Ladies, Tartuffe, and Don Juan in an assessment of their contemporary rele...

Kolb's Learning Styles and Speaking in Public

In ten pages this essay discusses public speaking in terms of speech delivery and also incorporates Kolb's styles of learning. Fi...

Learning in Today's Technological Environment

(Calderon, 1991). McGrath and Sands (2004) describe the process that a North Carolina school system undertook in deciding t...

Education on Learning Disabilities Through The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

[Gillys] fault" that her previous placements did not work out, it nevertheless leaves the readers and Gilly with the impression fr...

Learning Organization Power and Leadership

(Senge, quoted in Dervitsiotis, 1998) A learning organisation...

Learning and Metacognition

environment often involves a diversity of instructional strategies as well as "monitoring, analyzing, predicting, planning, evalua...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

Application of Montessori Mathematics to Children Between the Ages of Three and Six

children, materials such as colored rods and beads (Kahn, nd; University of Kansas, 2000). Among other things, young children can ...

Multicultural Learning Community Development

- but perhaps it isnt. Boyer "defined community as an undergraduate experience that helps students go beyond their private inter...

Teaching That is Inquiry Based

standardized testing. However, Buell and Crawford (2001) note that the test does not ask students to justify their choice, "Yet kn...