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Basic Skills Initiative

2007). These are considered the foundation skills for success in college level education (Illowsky, 2007). The BSI itself is inten...

'Use Students' Names to Build Basic Reading Skills' Analyzed

the qualities of words, students can better analyze other words for themselves. Concept 2. Begin with sounds, specifically ...

Overview and Critique of Comprehensive Test Of Basic Skills

In five pages this achievement test is considered in an informational overview and critique with such issues as administration, de...

Iowa Test of Basic Skills Analyzed

if they find any errors. If they do find an error they must identify the line, or, they can simply mark "no error" if that is wha...

Listening Skills and Improving Them

to be asked to summarize the speakers message (Boyd, 2004). B. Look at the speaker, rather than allowing gaze to wander to a wall,...

Overview of DIBELS

following paper offers a brief overview of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), identifying its charact...

Workplace Skill Improvements for Students

In twenty five pages this paper examines the importance of teaching students skill basics that will serve them well in the workpla...

Child Development and Semantics

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the process through which children acquire language. This paper relate...

Quality Initiatives of Rosenbluth Travel Agency

IT systems meant that Rosenbluth enjoyed huge expertise in the industry -- and could develop systems on request that could be tail...

The Transformation of Ballot Initiatives In California

16 pages and 13 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of ballot initiatives in California. This paper s...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

Organizational Performance Enhancements

principle inherently includes value creation, developing alternatives, and continual learning (Matheson and Matheson, 2001, p. 49)...

Learning Center Ideal

socially. The greater the overall interaction the better the prospects for economic improvement (Lewin-Epstein et al, 2003). Onc...

Needs Assessment & Findings

up and shut down a computer; use of the mouse, navigate within windows; open a program; move between windows; select and use a pri...

Hand-Washing - Importance, Practice and Barriers to Best Practice

and by 1867 Joseph Lister had introduced to role of antiseptics by his practice of spraying surgical instruments with carbolic aci...

Injections

terms of treatment and immunisations. However, this refers to the actual treatment and the delivery of the liquid, but not the eff...

Survey Project, Importance of Creativity

This essay relates the details of a proposed survey study that focuses on the importance of teaching creativity/critical thinking ...

A DESCRIPTION OF ECONOMICS

What are the roles of government bodies that determine national fiscal policies? While the president and Congress adjust federal s...

Earthquakes

best known of the divergent boundaries is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge" which is a submerged mountain range that gores from the Artic Oc...

Astronomy Questions

reflectors (Strobel, 2006). The type of telescope is determined by the "objective," which is the "part of the telescope that gathe...

About Mutual Funds

1976 by John C. Bogle (Woodward, 2007). Its now called the "Vanguard 500 Index Fund" and it is the largest mutual fund in existenc...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Admissions Essay for Optometry School

technology has become a beneficial tool in the early diagnosis of degenerative ocular diseases, and this is one measure that optom...

Corporate Change and Survival

the cutter is outside. Therefore, the contact is by the bills and letters and through the customer service centres. The problems m...

Critical, Functionalist, and Interpretative Communications Approaches

In six pages three basic communications approaches are defined and clarified....

Function of Political Institutions in Combating Epidemics

This research paper examines the significant role that governments take in battling epidemics, which occur both domestically and i...

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

A Textbook Synopsis, Notes on Economic Geography

Eight pages of notes relating to important concepts in a basic Economic Geography textbook. Topics are in a global perspective...

Writing Skills' Workshop Petition

a 2000 report by the Wall Street Journal noted that 80 percent of businesses surveyed believe their employees biggest problem is w...

Employers and Employees Benefits for the Gaining and Use of Workplace Skills

be education or experience. The value to the employers of specific skills is easily apparent for specialist jobs, practical skil...