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Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Proportionality and Australian Law

in alignment with Constitutional standards. It can be argued, then, that the High Courts acceptance of the relevance of proportio...

Convicted Criminals and DNA Mandatory Testing

expenditure of millions of dollars and countless hours of time trying to solve such crimes. Consequently, our legal and criminal ...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Study Objectives and Testing Bias

and the purpose of these objectives related to the problem as a whole. This can be done in a single paragraph. The study objecti...

Correlation Between Scholastic Success and High Self Esteem

goal, how long they will persevered in trying to attain the goal and the amount of resilience they have when they do face setbacks...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Overview of Hemoglobinopathies and Hemoglobin Electrophoresis

elbow, with the help of an elasticised band placed around the upper arm in order to restrict blood supply and make collection easi...

Advertising Effectiveness

for long lashes, but also the aspiration of the target market and the type of lifestyle that is associated with good looking indep...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Nonprofit Organizations and High Turnover of Employees

involved in micromanaging only harm the organization (Schweitzer, 2004). One of the many challenges nonprofits face is a high tu...

Overview of the Fisher Effect and its Accuracy

between 1890 and 1927 was used, and for the UK the period between 1820 and 1924. The result of this examination was the identifica...

High Athlete Salaries

other jobs? A Hollywood movie star can make about $25 million (Fischer, 2003, p.54) per picture and the President of the United ...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Human Resource Management Errors

In four pages HRM errors are discussed in an examination of employee mismanagement by a fast food chain that resulted in a high tu...

Elementary and High School Virtual Computer Field Trips

of Blooms taxonomy had the assignment not limited their access to the Internet. These outcomes were not uniform for all ind...

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

The Legal Issues Involved in Animal Rights

groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), have won some legal battles. Germany has changed its constitut...

Consumer Goods Company and Marketing Mixes

of cost-effective channels to target prospects outside their place of business (Weeks, 2001). Furthermore, some business-t...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Canadian Aboriginal Youth and Suicide Among Canadian Aboriginal Youths: Rates, Causes, and Solutions

for suicide than other groups and these include prison inmates, persons with mental health disorders and Aboriginals. In19...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Systematic Taxonomy and Biodiversity

classify and categorize things, a need first addressed by Linneus when he first devised the binomial system of nomenclature for li...

America and Child Abuse

to mothers drowning their own children for convenience. Society must care for its children. There is a need for the government ...

High Employee Performance, Working Conditions, and Salary

for the employee to feel a sense of self-fulfillment (Accel Team, 2003). * There is a sense of community, of comradeship at work (...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

The Baseball 'Business' from a Sociological Perspective

makes more money for the team, so while a player may command a million dollar salary, the team owners profit much more than he doe...

Unemployment's Importance

is on the way down, and certainly other economic indicators suggest positive changes, there are still many people out of work. Eco...