SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Integrating Assessment to Support Learning

Essays 1051 - 1080

Don't Bother Me, Mom, I'm Learning by Marc Prensky

unknown 20 years ago (Exclusive interview, 2001). The world has changed dramatically, but education has not kept up with it; in fa...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

Portfolios, Grading and Assessment Plus an Annotated Bibliography

analyzing portfolio contents. The point of this text is to help instructors in training students to be self-assessors, which are c...

Models of Instruction for Educating Patients

of media in group instruction (Mensing and Norris, 2003). When people can share how they handle actual effects of an illness, ever...

3 Articles on Public Relations Issues Between Schools and Communities Summarized

is all too often overlooked (Ediger, 2001). When courteous responses between school workers is not relayed, the public at large w...

Don't Bother Me, Mom, I'm Learning by Marc Prensky

medical procedures, work in a lab-in short, the skills developed by the games translate directly into the "real world" (Prensky, 2...

Baudrillard and Weil: Two Concepts of Consumer Society

attempts center "on the system of objects in the consumer society ... and the interface between political economy and semiotics" (...

Is The Use Of Racial Categories In Educational Achievement Antiquated?

In todays western world there is equal access to education for all races, and may be argued as outdated and implying that there co...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Assessing An Alternative To The Use Of Interactive Voice Response Systems

will be a number of calls placed through each system to assess the length of time it takes to reach certain point of the conversat...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Crime Theories: Comparison

enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Cooperative Groups For Non-Native English Speakers

of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...

Marketing Coca-Cola's "Georgia" Coffee Drink

Coca-Cola products are available in virtually every county in the world now, but company leadership recently has discovered that i...

Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory

174). Slide 3 - Leiningers Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory ? Madeline Leininger agrees: ? Nursing is synonymous w...

Teamwork: Looking Back While Looking Ahead At Management Teamwork

ongoing quest to make the workplace a more effective environment, it has also become an ever-changing one in relation to its modif...

"Children Placed At Risk For Learning And Behavioral Difficulties" - Brief Analysis

be learned about keeping children with the potential of being categorized as at risk out of the statistical pool by prescreening a...

Assessment of Feasibility for a Project

Fees per year 36000 This gives us a total a total of Figure 3 Total Income per year for tank 1 at 2,000 m3 Rental per year 48,00...

Capital Budgeting; NPV and IRR

discount rate discounted cash flow Accumulative total 0 -500,000 1 -500,000 -500,000 1 85,000 0.952381 80,952 -419,048 2 150,000 0...

"Deception Point"

Point", however, isnt limited to the message that our government is capable of deceiving the American people but that certain fact...

In Favor of Abortion

at the moment of birth, then there is no ethical dilemma with abortion. The ethics of the matter come down to a definition, which...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

An Experience in Critical Thinking

their introduction to "A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology" Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby (editor) obser...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Assessing a Potential Development Area

In terms of access there is easy access, Northampton itself is just on a major motorway, the M1, this is undergoing widening at ma...

Expository Writing - Lesson Plan

writing needs to be clearer or more interesting. Teach students to consider these questions: Does the reader need to know somethin...

Reading Assessment - Nonreader

gets frustrated easily and wants to give up. At the same time, John wants to read books. Also available were the Stanford 9 Achie...