Portfolios have long been used in some professions to showcase professional work and skill. In education‚ portfolios have also been used for assessment‚ including self-assessment (Lankes 1995; Pond et al. 1998). Both career portfolios and career passports reflect this dual focus—students assess themselves in the process of developing a product‚ and the resulting product showcases and documents their experiences and skills. A distinction is sometimes drawn between a portfolio as developmental and
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Portfolio Analysis We currently have 4 holdings in Energy‚ 4 in Materials and 3 in Utilities. Our Energy holdings consists of Buckeye Partners Limited which is a Oil and Gas Pipeline company‚ Valero Energy which is an oil refiner and marketer‚ VanEck Global Alternative Energy ETF which consists of companies that have over 50% of their revenue from renewable sources‚ and we hold the XLE which is our sector SPDR. In Materials we hold the iShares Global Timber ETF‚ The Graphic Packaging Holding Company
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London murders: a predictable pattern? Four stabbings to death in a single day. Ninety murders in 7 months. Shocking figures—or are they? Knife crime makes the headlines almost daily but are Londoners really at increased risk of being murdered? David Spiegelhalter and Arthur Barnett investigate— and find a predictable pattern of murder. Violence in London attracts headlines. After four people were murdered in separate incidents in London on July 10th‚ 2008‚ BBC correspondent Andy Tighe said “To
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1. RESEARCH DESCRIPTION The research study covers the collective information necessary for system and develops functions to be performed by the users. It furnishes idea and concept of the organized procedure to arrive at a comprehensive analysis thus‚ provides a vivid application of the proposed system. It would be an overview of the system with an integration of simplified user-interface based on the gathered information. 2.1 Background of the Study MIND QUEST Tutorial and Review Center
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Angela Cusumano November 28‚ 2010 Portfolio Review Committee University of Illinois at Chicago 601 South Morgan Street Chicago‚ Illinois 60607 Dear Portfolio Review Committee‚ My first semester here at UIC I was obligated to take English 160. I can honestly say I thought I would be easily passing this course. I was used to the 5 paragraph essay in high school and assumed that things would be the same in college. After writing my first project for English 160 I felt invincible until I
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Mr. John was a 70 year old male‚ 170 lbs‚ 5’4" with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He had a smoking history. He was transferred from the hospital to the Nursing home before six months. He had a history of congestive heart disease and osteoarthritis. When I assessed him‚ he had a weak but persistent cough‚ and midsternal chest pain from coughing. He had an elevated temperature and Oxygen saturation was 89%. Other vital signs were stable. He had a dry skin‚ redness‚ and irritation of
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Whitlam Dismissal Essay Assess the causes of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government on November 11th‚ 1975 Gough Whitlam was the first Prime Minister of Australia to be dismissed from office‚ by the then-Governor-General Sir John Kerr. The dismissal was the most dramatic day in Australian political history‚ however the causes cannot be pinpointed to just one reason. Among other minor factors‚ it can be determined that the dismissal of Whitlam’s government was caused by the Senate’s acts of blocking
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helped‚ because I could complete the first two pretty quickly. For Freddie I drew a 3 column T-Table‚ with a drawing of the figure‚ the number of Pegs (in)‚ and the Area (out). I looked for a pattern between the in and the out‚ and quickly found one that made sense‚ and I worked it into a formula. I got X/2-1=Y. Where X is IN (number of pegs) and Y is OUT (Area). This works in all shapes with no interior pegs‚ like Freddie described. I attached this T-Table. For Sally I followed my luck of the 3
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IRSC BAS‚ Inc. Product Portfolio Taylor English Indian River State College IRSC BAS‚ Inc. Product Portfolio The table below will show an updated product portfolio for IRSC BAS‚ Inc. This table will give an overviewed look at what the company should retain‚ discontinue and innovate. The new policies of the company along with the renewed product portfolio will help this company become a forceful competitor in this industry. The innovations will ensure the ability for this company to broaden the market
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abundance of alternate solutions to this problem such as sampling‚stealth assessment‚ multiple measures‚ social and emotional skills survey‚ game-based assessment‚ inspections‚ and performance or portfolio based-assessments. The method I find particularly useful is her idea of Performance or Portfolio based assessment. This allows teachers to monitor students progress over a extended time period so they are truly able to get a well rounded understanding of the students real comprehension of the
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