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Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

factors that are not within an educators or students control. For example, critics have argued that standardized testing is socio...

Education and Qualitative Content Analysis

In other words, the achievement of goals is clearly a focus of the assessment and testing process. But on an individual level, as...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

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

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...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Medical Testing On Animals

on animal use in experiments for human well being (Singh, 2006). II. IN FAVOR OF Michael et al (1994) attempt to sharpen...

Skills Tests and Licensing for Employment: A Review of Literature

for Registered Nurses, the NCLEX-PN is for licensed practical nurses. 3. The candidate must report any chemical dependencies, cr...

Psychological Testing and Preemployment Law Enforcement Background Screening

job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

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

Totalitarian Model Testing

be found in existence in each. These conditions include: * Domination by a single political party; * Consistent deference to one ...

Test Anxiety and Animal Assisted Therapy

challenging mathematical exercises alternating with periods of sitting quietly, during which further measurements were taken (Alle...

Projective versus Objective Tests

This paper begins with an overview of the history of personality assessment. The writer then explains the differences between obje...

Psychological Testing

by the teacher although legally, the parents can make this referral. In the educational setting, a psychologist would determine ex...

Wireless Router Signal Strength: Testing for Interference

speeds and reduce the utility of internet access. Whenever one connects to the internet wirelessly, one is doing so through what i...

Validity and Reliablity of Tests

that a test of some sort actually measures what it purports to measure. Tests of any kind must have both reliability and validity....

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...