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STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

Hypothesis Testing

study by Ferrei, et al. looked at the effects on brain tissue and neural function caused by various forms of emitted radiation, an...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Gasoline Prices and the Economy

economy. Consumers have to cut back. They pay for the higher gas prices by not doing something else. For instance, a family that ...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: DANVILLE AIRLINES

The problem with genetic testing is that it only reveals a genetic predisposition for a particular disease. David Reigers father h...

The Threat to Democracy from Police Brutality

in this case reduced the problem to "four empirical questions" that, when answered, might shed light upon the issue, the two most ...

Testing Competitive Advantages

simply offering a low price" (Porter, 1985; 120). The premium that the product, or service, can command as a result of this differ...

Concussions in High School Football

Protocols should be in place to assure that students do not go back to playing ball soon after a concussion is experienced. In fa...

Opportunities for Trinity Biotech

ion Ireland, located at Bray and three in the United states located at Jamestown in New York, Carlsbad in California and in Missou...

Should High-Tech Firms Adopt a Sales Orientated Approach to Business?

The writer discusses the different approaches to business that the high-tech firm may adopt, including a product orientation, mark...

Hypothesis Testing and Numerical Expressions

purpose of testing is to determine whether or not the null hypothesis should be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis by...

Parametric Testing and ANOVA

"should not be surprised to observe things that happen only 5% of the time" ("ANOVA", 2011). In other words, a variance with P of ...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

2008). Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that using testing measures to screen for depression is beneficial, as this identif...

Correlation and Statistics

a rise in one variable being perfectly equal to a rise in the other variable would be a linear correlation, while changes in varia...

Group Development/Remember the Titans

is based on a true story of a 1971 recently integrated high schools football team, located in Alexandria, Virginia, coping with an...

The Impact of Reimbursement Strategies on Healthcare Revenue

which was potentially the first ever schedule of physician charges (Jost, 1988). Today the issue is not as simple with a far more ...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

HIGH SCHOOL DROP-OUT RATES IN THE UNITED STATES: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

16-24, who are not enrolled in school and havent earned a high school credential, such as a diploma or General Educational Develop...

EMPLOYEE TESTING AND THE HIRING PROCESS

Overman (2010) agrees, but cautions that "companies that know the differences between job-focused and culture-based personality te...

Prevalence of Cystic Fibrosis

form of CF is the result of a genetic mutation on chromosome 7 that appears in both parents, there may be many cases when one pare...

Mitigating IT Turnover Through Effective Mentoring

information technologies (IT). While this field should be booming, existing as it does at the very epicenter of the digital revolu...

Managing Risk for a new IT/IS Installation

it is entered, unless it requires some alteration for legitimate purposes. General training of the system use will incorporate t...

Team Assessment

optimistic, but as there is not the same analytic aspect seen with Melinda there is the weakness of disorganization, acting before...

What is Psychology?

sensations, and thoughts (Cherry, 2010). As psychology grew and evolved, a various number of "schools of thought" have arisen to...

Problems at Tru-Fit

so it may be argued that there is not a specific motivation to increase the division prices, but with profit targets themselves th...

Bonuses for Bailout Banks: The Ethical Questions

economic status of their businesses. Some experts attribute the matter to a dramatic increase in technological development and ava...

Assessing Guillermo Furniture Investment Alternatives

looks at the net revenue which is produced by investment, and assess is how long it would take for the initial capital investment ...

Business and Marketing Practices

decisions on these types of core values (Krell, 2006, 58). Donald & Goldsby (2004, 13) remark that in resolving ethical issues, a ...

Doing Away with Harmful Traditional Roles

the point that the female sees no other options. This message is one that is still sent by most of society. Non-traditional famil...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...