In her op-ed piece‚ It Doesn’t Test For Success‚ (Creighton)‚ Joanne V Creighton‚ PHD asserts that standardized test scores such as the SAT’s are no longer useful in predicting the potential successes of today’s students. Dr. Creighton‚ who at the time was President of Mount Holyoke College‚ cited the errors in scoring on the SAT for approximately 4‚000 students. She further stated that while the test may have made sense when first developed‚ it no longer presents an accurate portrait of the potential
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variance Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is a generalized form of univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA). It is used when there are two or more dependent variables. It helps to answer : 1. do changes in the independent variable(s) have significant effects on the dependent variables; 2. what are the interactions among the dependent variables and 3. among the independent variables.[1] Where sums of squares appear in univariate analysis of variance‚ in multivariate analysis of variance
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II. BENEFITS OF EXERCISE About 100 B.C.‚ Cicero observed that “exercise and temperance can preserve something of our strength in old age.” Aristotle stressed the need for exercise to maintain “a healthy mind in a healthy body.” In the Misneh Torah‚ the twelfth century Jewish scholar and physician‚ Rabbi Moses Maimonides‚ strongly recommended daily exercise and warned that “anyone who sits around idle and takes no exercise will be subject to physical discomforts and failing strength.” Early in
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doesn’t mean morals are always dependent on religion; as some people believe in autonomy where they believe the principles of morality are based on reason and experience (the morals from society) and not necessarily on religious concepts. Whereas people that believe in heteronomy believe that morality comes directly from god‚ so there for is dependent on it. However some people believe points from both sides so think that morality doesn’t have to be completely dependent on religion but does sometimes
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Overall I enjoyed the counseling the chemically dependent family class. I learned more about family systems approaches‚ and techniques for working with chemically dependent families. Throughout this counseling program we have been learning how to work with individual clients. This class was interesting because it involved the identified client and their entire family‚ while looking at these individuals in a systemic view. Throughout the course we had numerous course assignments to complete. In doing
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Light Dependent Reactions The light dependent reaction of photosynthesis involves the transfer of sunlight energy into two things: The production of ATP Reduction of coenzyme NADP to NADPH NADP – Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate NADPH – Reduced NADP The energy from sunlight is used to excite an electron‚ within a primary pigment‚ to a higher energy level. The excited electron is then donated to an electron acceptor leaving the chlorophyll molecule oxidised and reducing the acceptor
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Are We too Dependent on Computers? Our generation is a huge advocate of computers and technology ‚ our lives are really connected to these electronic devices. Normally a common teenager pass at least 4or 5 hours in front their computers and this happens even with adults ‚ we don’t have control about this‚ we believe that’s okay because we think computers perform our daily activities in a fast way ‚ obviously that’s why we would never think that we are too dependent on our computers. However
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SHC 31 Promote communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young peoples settings. Outcome 1. 1) People communicate for many different reasons in many different ways. Communication can be both verbal and non verbal. Non verbal communication is usually communicated through the process of sending and receiving workless (mostly visual) cues. Examples of non verbal communication are: • Posture • Appearance • Hand movements • Eye movements • Facial expressions • Gestures
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Advance in technology is every one dream of. Technology were needed in our daily life‚ everyone need faster and convenient tool to help them work faster to increase productivity. But when we needed this type of advantage‚ technologies will also bring us many disadvantages. It will make many people who cannot follow technology lost their job or be replace by technology. So that Technology have many advantages and many disadvantage‚ in my essay I will discuss some about it. First‚ technology is good
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1. What are the two groups whose results are reflected by the t ratios in Tables 2 and 3? The group studied was twenty-one elderly women with an average age of 77. Ninety percent of the participants had one or more chronic diseases. Table two represents the programs effects on cardiovascular risk factors and table 3 represents program effects on health behaviors. The t ratios reflected on these tables represents the test results between the pretest and 3 months and again between the pretest and
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