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Multicultural Workforce

This paper discusses why employees consistently fail a test following diversity training. The paper discusses expectancy theory an...

Constructin Industry Fraud in Manhattan

In 2008, Yankee Stadium hired a monitor to check the safety of its buildings. They found irregularities. This led to an investigat...

Virgil as Dante's Father Figure in the Divine Comedy

This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...

Toulmin Argument/Standardized Testing is a Mistake

This essay argues, using the Toulmin format, that standardized testing is a mistake, and provides sources that support this positi...

Issues in BEahvioral Research

There are numerous research designs. This essay discusses just some that are used in behavioral research, such as quasi-experiment...

Foreign Language, Benefits of Learning

This paper pertains to the benefits of learning a foreign language, the future of this field and gap-testing strategies. Three pag...

The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System

This 3 page paper gives an overview of diagnosing disorders of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous systems. This...

A Pennsylvania Appellate Brief

FACTS: * Ginger Meeks is HIV-positive. * Ginger is not ill and shows no symptoms of AIDS. * The local school...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Social Groups and Alcoholism Research

family arguments or fights after drinking? (Usually, often, sometimes, never) Responses to these questions establish a profile o...

Statistical Studies, Validity and Reliability

that is, "causal" questions are those which would compare the type of activity (the cause) with the effect of that cause. This ty...

Treatment Plan for an African American Woman Suffering from Alcoholism and PTSD

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

NY Times Article Critique, Sulzberger (2011)

This essay is a critique of an article pertaining to the restriction that anyone who failed to pass a drug test cannot receive pub...

Determining Statistical Tests

Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...

An Article Critique, Duane and Satre (2014)

This paper presents an article critique of Duane and Satre (2014), which describes the implementation of a collaborative testing m...

Evaluating Web-Based Courses

As more and more higher education courses are offered Online the usability of the design and process are essential. This paper dis...

IT System Contingency Planning Process

The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...

How to Preach Better

There are many suggestions one can find in articles and books about being a more effective preacher. One expert that has stood the...

Educational Psychology

(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Freeman Reviewed

variation of levels of acceptance of the book reflect its difficult subject matter. The Setting There have been volumes bot...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

Children and IQ Testing

caregivers educational level, home environment, socioeconomic status and prenatal exposure to substance abuse, violence exposure w...

Alternatives to Student Learning Assessed

is made. Further, a great reliance on norm-referenced standardized tests has emerged over the last few decades. Standardized norm-...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Evaluation of Aptitude Tests as Assessment Instruments

a brief evaluation of their applicability and effectiveness. General Aptitude Test Battery The General Aptitude Test Battery o...

Test-Taking Skills

considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investi...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

Stress Scale

will inadvertently bring home for the student to share. Here is where the student will discuss plans to reduce both types of stre...