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Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

Overview of the TAT Personality Test

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

Pledge of Allegiance, 'Under God,' and Newdow v. U.S. Congress

its adherence to the so-called Exception clause of the Constitution, a clause tested through three separate theories: the Lemon t...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...

Considerations in Standardized Testing

structures, are differentially activated when a story is interpreted. A students racial background and culture are particularly ...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Illustrative Paper on Animal Testing for Medical Purposes

humans suffering a particular disease. Many researchers maintain that animal DNA and human DNA are so similar, that test results ...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

Gender Differences in Online Fashion Spending

not there are differences and the difference patterns seen in the market, with men buying clothes for men is associated with conve...

Use of Statistics

there are two degrees of freedom, so using the table below we can see we need to reject the null hypothesis, with an Alpha of 0.00...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Statistical Test; T-Test

task undertaken by two different samples the same sample undertaking the same test under different conditions, it may also be used...

Applications of the Classic Tests for a Just War

under the just intention of abating evil and promoting good, 4. whether other means of rectification have been attempted and war ...

Are Fuel Prices Correlated with Elections

higher due to inflation. There are many tests we can undertake using this data, but for the comparison of data sets to asses if t...

Research Framework Design

The student may like to expand this to include a time scale or further limitations. With the test and the hypothesis considered ...

The Debate About Standardized Testing

students really learn ("Readers Poll," 2006). The exact statement provided for readers to rate was as follows: "Standardized testi...

Hypothesis Test And Results

This 8 page paper is based on data provided by the student which is used to perform an ANOVA test. The raw data, hypothesis test a...

Standardized Testing, Immigrants And ESL

other authors do not seem to consider in their discussions. In terms of language, for instance, a proficiency test measures the st...

Statistical Testing

The t-test gives as a score of 1.5691772 and the p-value (which is a probability value) is 0.074085. From this result there is a s...

Aspects of High-Risk Pregnancy

out the risks as well as possible termination options (Linscott, 1996). After this general introduction, Linscott discusses the p...

High Level Executives are Overpaid

What have CEOs done for business? Some CEOs have been well worth their salaries. Of course, this is not true in many cases. It s...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

High School Diploma: Tennessee

3 units, states, "All students must complete one of the following: Biology, Biology for Technology, or the equivalent in an integr...

Infant Mortality

account for there reversal in the infant mortality rates seen since the 1980s. This paper will look at the patterns and trend in...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Assessing the Quality of High Heeled Shoes for Babies

and the high heels in the shoes are also very soft, so that as baby kicks out the heels will bend and squash. These shoes are a ...