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Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Education and Testing

will be reflected at the end of a semester evaluation. In the case of lessons designed through a holistic approach, the developme...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

Parenthood and Its Problems

inflict gentle reprimands. Even within the toddler stage, there are several individual periods of growth where one stage ends and...

New Jersey Law and Genetic Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

California Schools' Drug Testing, Ethics, and Law

no evidence that suspicion is the case, is not overly approved of. However, there are schools where testing and active security is...

Third Grade Student and Childhood Learning Assessment

that it was a test that had also been given to her friend Haifa and that it was important to test more than one person. This seeme...

HRM and its Role in Corporate Strategy

be and should be directly aligned to a companys strategic goals. According to Paauwe, another important part of HRM involved workf...

U.S., Free Speech, and Engel v. Vitale

prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...

Testing and Integration of Computer Systems

network, after all, is to transport and control data, and to connect computers and peripheral drives with one another (Huber and B...

Youth Stress, Test Scores, and a Satire Essay

same score. This group learning program has helped lessen the stress of an introverted student who is able to fade into the backg...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Problems with Testing Software

unfortunate programmer is accordingly assigned to testing, which "is often viewed as being transferred to purgatory" since there i...

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

School Prayer & The Lemon Test

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

Data Analysis; Cross-Cultural Competence and Best Practice Social Work

approaches we can use, such as the paired T-Test, however, in this case as we would usually expect to find a normal distribution a...

Critique of "Computers in Clinical Assessment: Historical Developments, Present Status, and Future Challenges"

which can be found in various forms scattered all through the Internet. "Overall, there is greater potential for resistance...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

Assessments and Research for ESL Learners

This 5 page paper provides an overview of testing methods and research for ESL learners. Bibliography lists 5 sources....

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...

Pizza Operations

from being properly recorded and accounted for. The manager will need to ensure that s/he orders quantities sufficient for ...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

Criterion-Referenced Test

d. Given a group of green, yellow, blue and red blocks, the student will be able to first count the total number, then divide the ...

Auditing Intangible Assets

It is only by auditing that the real value when auditing is undertaken tests need to be put into place to ensure that values repor...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

Are Alternative Assessments Better than Standardized Testing

(ITBS) or the NEWAs (the North West Evaluation Association), individualized assessments that are provided at different times durin...