about 21% continue their education‚ even to the baccalaureate level (Stokowski‚ 2011). This multiple pathway to nursing can sometimes pose as a challenge to aspiring nurses who are not sure which pathway to choose. In making a decision for the educational preparation of nursing‚ one has to know the pros and cons of each entry route so as to facilitate better decision making. The nursing diploma is a 3-year diploma program typically administered in hospitals. This route was once the most popular
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Educational Equity Having educational equity means understanding the changes that education has gone through‚ it means understanding what/ who impacts or changes education policies‚ being mindful of varying perspectives‚ and being fair to all students. We have to examine the achievement of students to understand true equity. Has achievement levels changed within the differing groups? According to Schrag (2004) the gaps in achievement‚ should start to close as the pressure on U. S. schools to achieve
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What Is Educational Evaluation? By Shane Hall‚ eHow Contributor I want to do this! What’s This? [pic]Educational evaluation involves the systematic assessment of educational activities. Objects of evaluation include instructional programs‚ school initiatives and education goals. The growth in federal funding for education and policy-makers’ increased calls for school accountability have contributed to the growth of educational evaluation. Many large school districts have personnel responsible
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PLANNING Thinking and looking ahead Process of establishing objectives and appropriate courses of action before taking action Why plan? To be: a. EFFECTIVE – being able to realize the objectives - “doing the right thing” b. EFFICIENT – being able to spend the least amount of resources in realizing the objective - “doing things right” TYPES OF PLANS: 1. Strategic Plan - focused on the entire organization - top management formulates the objectives
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views in regards to educations standards. As a realist I feel that that re-capitulation is necessary to make the knowledge permanent. One subject should be taught at one time‚ No pressure or force be brought upon the child‚ the drill of cramming should be given up; Things should be
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Educational Philosophies Philosophy Behaviorism Philosophers Beliefs Key Thought BF Skinner Conservatism Edmund Burke Human nature is the product of one’s environment. Change the environment to change the behavior. Reinforce good behavior‚ punish bad behavior Conservation of cultural heritage preserves the wisdom of the achievements of humankind. Behavior evolves within the conditioning influence of the institutional system‚ tradition is the repository of a collective social intelligence.
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student’s competency a portfolio is used to document the evidence. Johnson‚ Mims-Cox and Doyle-Nichols state that portfolio provides a more affluent picture of a student’s abilities and to show growth over time. The challenges of a portfolio are that developing a portfolio is time-consuming (Johnson‚ Mims-Cox‚ Doyle-Nichols‚ 2010). Johnson‚ Mims-Cox‚ & Doyle-Nichols (2010) states that the main purpose of action research is to expand behaviors based on a continuing cycle of goals setting‚ reflection
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com/0957-8234.htm Strategic planning and school management: full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing? Centre for Educational Leadership and Management‚ School of Education‚ University of Leicester‚ Northampton‚ UK Keywords Strategic planning‚ Schools‚ Improvement‚ Leadership‚ Management Abstract Strategic planning‚ in the form of school improvement planning‚ has become the dominant approach to school management in English schools. This has evolved from earlier forms of strategic planning and has significant
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ROSETTE S. DELA CRUZ LEA G. SOMOSO JUNE 1‚ 2014 I. CASE BACKGROUND The school in many underdeveloped countries is a reflection and a fruit of the surrounding underdevelopment‚ from which arises its deficiency‚ its quantitative and qualitative poverty. But little by little‚ and there lies the really serious risk‚ the school in these underdeveloped countries risks becoming in turn a factor of underdevelopment. Richard Jolly‚ Deputy Director General‚ UNICEF said “Investing in people‚ if done right
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Introduction | Life | Work John Dewey (Photograph from Colombia University Faculty Photograph Collection‚ c.1950) Introduction John Dewey (1859 - 1952) was a 20th Century American philosopher‚ psychologist and educational reformer. Along withCharles Sanders Peirce and William James‚ he is recognized as one of the founders of the largely American philosophical school of Pragmatism and his own doctrine of Instrumentalism. He was also one of the fathers of Functionalism (or Functional Psychology)
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