Examinations are a fair gauge of a student’s ability. Discuss. Scholastic tests are unjust barometers for students’ aptitudes as they are one-off gauges of understanding of the subjects‚ which may be unfair as psychological factors could come into play. Moreover‚ students with a clearer perception of the standard methods and types of questions will excel better than others‚ meaning that scoring well for an examination will not just be based on ability of application for a subject but rather on
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What kind of a platform business is the online personals market? What kind of network effects (direct‚ cross-sided‚ positive‚ and negative) does it leverage? How structurally attractive is it? The online personals market is a specific niche of social networking‚ and it is a sole-sponsor‚ proprietary platform business. In terms of network effects‚ it could be seen as a one-sided network (users can instigate an interaction‚ or can have someone else instigate an interaction with them)‚ but is better
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TOPIC 2 TUTORIAL SOLUTIONS Albrecht et al Chapter 2 Discussion Questions 2. People can be motivated to commit fraud because of financial pressures‚ vices‚ or because of work-related pressures. As well‚ perpetrators of fraud can be motivated by a perceived opportunity to commit fraud and the ability to rationalize that what they are doing is not wrong. Their motivations are usually combined into the fraud triangle of perceived pressure‚ perceived opportunity‚ and rationalization. 3
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Felder’s prominent work is the Felder-Silverman learning and teaching styles model (1988) and the Solomon-Felder Index of Learning Styles (1991) Sequential learners (linear‚ orderly‚ learn in small incremental steps) or global learners (holistic‚ systems thinkers‚ learn in large leaps) (Felder‚ 1996‚ p. 19). The Four Learning Style Dimensions Felder and Silverman (1988)‚ define four learning style dimensions Sensing and Intuitive Learners The following information on sensing and intuitive learners
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A survey of the arguments used against the examination system revealed the following major criticisms of exams and their effects: Exams inflict needless strain upon students. The fear of exams and the disgrace of failure may well account for many of the suicides‚ breakdowns and lesser nervous ailments occurring among students. Health‚ emotional‚ or merely temperamental factors may give a student an off day‚harming his showing in the results list. A poor range of questions‚ or a bad choice on
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Today‚ stories are an intrinsic part of our societies and culture. Movies‚ books‚ music‚ news media‚ religions‚ architecture and painting‚ you name it‚ and the influence of storytelling is to be seen in all aspects of our life. Defining our values‚ desires‚ dreams and‚ as well as our prejudices and hatreds‚ don’t you want to know how it all began? Well‚ the history of Storytelling is the prime focus of this article. Traditionally‚ the oral stories have been handed over from generation to generation
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An accounting information system provides accurate and timely financial information for internal management purposes. While these systems can include paper manuals and ledgers‚ most systems in today’s business environment are built upon accounting software programs or applications. These systems provide financial or operational reports for business owners to make decisions. An accounting information system can also integrate and fulfill departmental and company-wide objectives. Read more: http://www
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has an affect on everyone each and every day. If the laws and rights in the Constitution was not applicable today‚ there would be no protection for individuals from the government. There would be no right to vote‚ no freedom of speech‚ no freedom to bare arms‚ no freedom of religion‚ or etc. There will be no right to petition or express your voice. All of these rights are applicable today to Americans‚ because of the Constitution of the Unites States. No other countries are provided the rights that
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Affirmative Action Today Recently there have been many issues regarding affirmative action and many politicians have been asking themselves‚ what is the place of affirmative in twenty-first century America? To obtain my own answer to this question a read two articles. One from the Guardian called “Rethinking affirmative action” written by Nicolaus Mills and another from the New York Times title “The Affirmative Action War Goes On”. In “Rethinking affirmative action”‚ Nicolaus Mills claims that
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to Lit – 1st Period 5 November 2012 Racism Today Discrimination against other races is very common in society today. 2007 Yale University did a study showing a black man who murdered a white man is three times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who killed a black man (11 Facts). Some people might think racism has stopped since the Civil Rights Act‚ but discrimination against minority races is still prevalent in society today. The Civil Rights Act was established in 1964
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