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Children and Early Formal Educational Instruction

to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...

High Schools and the Need for Metal Detectors

not been privy to the information, another Columbine might have erupted. This is a case in point. Metal detectors are necessary f...

The Boys Scouts in Litigation

they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...

A Research Proposal on Standardized Testing

examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...

4 ANOVA Statistics Questions Week II

In a hypothesis test, level of significance is . The null hypothesis H0 is that there is no difference between employment...

Curriculum and Impact of Standardized Tests

school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...

The Insurance Industry and Testing for Adverse Selection

will or can occur. Objective research seeks to gather all data and then analysis the inclusive data. The initial problem with asym...

Characteristics of Corporate Governance

1998). Furthermore, experiments must be performed in a laboratory and under specific conditions that are detailed by the Home Off...

Statistics and Mean Starting Salaries

and well assume that the first and second columns are starting salaries of public accountants and financial planners, with the lat...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

Overview of the High Rate of Teenage Unemployment

problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...

Microbiologist Study of Cells and Various Techniques

methods of studying cell and cell structures, for microbiologists, are generally reliant on microscopes. Obviously, the cell canno...

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...

Building a New High School in Neshaminy, PA

their replacements say theyll try to stop the loan with a lawsuit if necessary. The three challengers who were guaranteed board se...

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...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

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...

High Rate of Unemployment and What It Means

naturally take its course. A decade later, unemployment was not a concern. The rate had been low during the nineties and in fact,...

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....

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

The Legal Issues Involved in Animal Rights

groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), have won some legal battles. Germany has changed its constitut...

Consumer Goods Company and Marketing Mixes

of cost-effective channels to target prospects outside their place of business (Weeks, 2001). Furthermore, some business-t...

Repercussions of Advertising Rates That Are Too High

it over the brink. Advertising expenditures sharply declined, and they remained rather scarce for some time. Advertising has rec...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

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...

High Employee Performance, Working Conditions, and Salary

for the employee to feel a sense of self-fulfillment (Accel Team, 2003). * There is a sense of community, of comradeship at work (...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Social Groups and Alcoholism Research

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