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Intelligence Tests and the Subjectivity of Results

intelligence is not a singular definable trait, but that intelligence as a whole can only be understood and measured in specific c...

Personality Tests - Their Limited Value

tests in order to assess the potential compatibility of employees that they are considering hiring. However, there is little, if a...

Hypothesis Testing and its Applications

is "statistically significant" or likely to occur by chance. For example, even if treatment A outperforms treatment B in the major...

Nonparametric Testing and ANOVA

that are certain to be useful in statistically assessing complex scenarios in which variance between more than two factors must be...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Developing Psychological Assessments

insofar as Dr. Zak left the questionnaires at each residence and residents did or did not complete the form through their own voli...

Special Education - Case Study

a diverse classroom as well as students with learning disabilities. Parent involvement was another issue mentioned. 2. Speak wit...

California Colleges and Universities

also numerous changes to the accreditation process, some of which have to do with distance education. And, there are special provi...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Psychological Test Sales and Internet Auctions: Ethical Considerations for Dealing With Obsolete or Unwanted Test Materials

the use of psychological assessment techniques by unqualified persons and should themselves not base clinical decisions on obsolet...

Functionalism and Education

means of indoctrinating children and young people with the values that constitute the norm of their society. For Functionalists, t...

Annotated Bibliography - Dual Language Education

& Education Quarterly, 31, 202-229. This paper describes the way in which a "team of urban middle school educators developed a du...

Generalists versus Specialists in the Ongoing Education Debate

something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...

Issues in Rayna Rapp's Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

handicapped or physically handicapped child and would terminate the pregnancy, or that having been forewarned, they would be forea...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

Business Decision Research, Z Tests and T Tests

The alternative hypothesis is the opposite, then, that there is a difference between these two populations based on regionality. ...

Activity Cycles

classroom environment is therefore designed to encourage children to exercise control over the environment and to function with an...

Proposal for Outreach Education in a Community Needs Assessment

Developing effective hospital-sponsored community outreach education programs in upper New York States requires attention not only...

Jamaica Kincaid's 'Seeing England for the First Time' and Columbus in Chains'

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

Physical Education and the Inclusion of Disabled Students

This paper considers the importance of including students who are handicapped in physical education in six pages....

Annotated Bibliography on Gifted Education

Ryan helps one to understand how there is nothing inherently wrong with being smart, unless the individual is a child who does not...

Software Development Lifecycle and Testing's Importance

software product quality is through extensive testing during several phases of the SDLC. However, before examining these phases, i...

Counseling and Values

This essay consists of two pages and discusses value systems in terms of education and counseling....

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Bernard Weiner and Albert Bandura

In five pages the education theories of Weiner and Bandura are discussed....

Multicultural Education

are from a white European history can learn to appreciate others from other nations and cultures. For example, one author notes, "...

The Importance of an Education

dropping out of high school and many may well find, years down the line, that they now want a high school education. One author no...

Internet Education

In relationship to the pros and the cons one author notes that the student can take classes from anywhere, can take classes on sub...

ASSURE

Once this is done the teacher can figure out reasonable objectives which involves the information being taught. An example is prov...

China, Korea, Japan, and Education

In nine pages the Asian system of education is examined in a contrast and comparison of structures in China, Korea, and Japan....