objectives” (Assessment services‚ 2011). A form of Assessment is standardised testing. This kind of test is used to “measure the performance of a group against that of a larger group” (assessment services‚ 2011). Standardized tests are often used in large-scale assessment projects‚ where the overall results of the group are more important than specific data on each individual client. Standardised Testing within Australian education has become an important and controversial issue since the introduction
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Humanity’s Extinction is at Stake The minute air pollution was acknowledged as a problem‚ the human race was endangered. The environment around the world is having a significant decline in its efficiency to provide clean and suitable resources for the world’s population. Solar panels are becoming the best option for researchers to preserve the atmosphere. Solar panels do not emit greenhouse gases‚ which benefit the natural resources to prevail its efficiency. The fight against the environmental pollution
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Fairness has been a major issue here in the United States and education is not shielded from this issue. The National League for Nursing (NLN) believes in core values which involves excellence‚ caring‚ diversity‚ and integrity and thus created the NLN Fair Testing Guidelines for nursing Education. Based on the concept of fairness‚ the NLN would provide all test-takers equal opportunity to demonstrate what skills and knowledge they have gained regarding a specific learning. NLN expanded their support
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scientific writing like lab reports or articles. There is also academic writing used for developing the skills needed to do more advanced types of writing. An example of this type of writing would be low-stakes writing. According to an article Low-Stakes Writing: Writing to Learn‚ Not Learning to Write‚ low-stakes writing is a tool to help students build comfort with sharing and developing their thoughts through writing. It gives a student or the writer the opportunity to develop ideas freely and without any
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Standardized tests have been a burden of students’ life for over fifty years. However‚ it contradicts the goal of the education system. The goal of the education system is to prepare young people to live in a world that is rapidly changing. Trying to create adults who can compete in the global economy through standardized testing‚ will inevitably fail. Students‚ who have grown up in an era of testing‚ will have trouble adapting to the real world and solving real life problems.
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Can transcultural Nursing be applied to African American Men who have sex with men (MSM)? Jacqueline Watson Gonzaga University Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice NURS 700 Debra Smith and Lin Murphy November 9‚ 2014 According to Zander (2007) the term transcultural nursing was first established by Florence Nightingale due to her work in the Crimean war and her work in Australia with the Aborigines. Today; however‚ transcultural nursing care in healthcare focuses upon differences and similarities
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Higher Education in Nursing Should be a Requirement When people get sick‚ they are sensitive about the quality of care they receive. Today everybody looks for advanced health care from highly educated health care professionals. Is there any reality behind it? Could it be the high- education that enables nurses to provide high quality patient care? Although general nursing program provides basic education for nurses‚ higher education will equip the nursing professionals with skills‚ knowledge and
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Lilia Gur Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V 12/12 /2014 In this day and age when medicine becomes more technological and industry driven‚ nursing needs to find its new role in the rapidly transforming healthcare system. In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published proposals about remodeling of nursing in the U.S. - “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change‚ Advancing Health.” This report points out to the need for changes in education‚ expanding practice
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Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education and its use in Nursing Education NUR/427 Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education and its use in Nursing Education Introduction Educators have always asked the basic question “Where do we begin in seeking to improve human thinking?” (Houghton‚ 2004 as cited in Forehand‚ 2005). One of the most famous men in the field of education is Benjamin Samuel Bloom. He was recognized for his work with Ralph W. Tyler known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. At the American Psychological Association
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The evolution of teaching within the nursing profession has been a major component in how nursing care is delivery throughout the health care system (Bastable‚ 2014). Florence Nightingale‚ who has been mostly recognized the founder of modern nursing‚ had devoted the majority of her career to the education of health care workers and was considered the ultimate educator (Bastable‚ 2014). Nursing educators have always provided educated to patients and their families as well as their colleagues. However
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