LABORATORY TESTING OF HIGHWAY MATERIALS INSTRUCTIONS 1. STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY Certified that this is the bonafide research work of Mr. Albert M. Dintweng and has a Summarized title; Laboratory Testing Of Highway Materials Instructions. Compiled from January 2011 until December 2011. Signature:_________________ 2. DISCLAIMER While utmost care has been taken in the preparation of this instruction report to provide reliable information
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TESTING FOR MACROMOLECULES Describe the positive test for starch. Explain how you know. The positive test for starch is adding iodine solution. In the experiment‚ the starch solution had the most dramatic reaction with the iodine solution. It turned to an opaque bluish-purple solution while other samples all turned to a colour related to orange and yellow other than the vegetable oil. But the vegetable oil was more translucent than completely opaque. Describe the positive test for
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Testing a Theory PSY/201 December 23‚ 2012 Testing a Theory I used the archival research method and naturalistic observation combined in a school project in high school about how different types of music changed the behavior of the 2 different types of birds I had at the moment that which were 2 Finches and a Cockatiel. The type of research methods I use were descriptive research to investigate their patterns of behavior and it was quite interesting because they both liked classical music
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Lainey Sullivan Evaluation Paper Standardized Testing Standardized tests are a common and popular way to evaluate the academic achievements of students‚ teachers and school districts. They are used in many areas such as the army‚ civil service‚ medicine and so on. Standardized tests are most widely used in the field of education to assess the academic performance of students. Two commonly known types of standardized tests in the United States are the SAT and the ACT. The SAT evaluates skills
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Business people face ethical issues every day which can be very difficult to assess. Some types arise infrequently‚ others occur regularly‚ and we are not even aware of it. So‚ now the question is how this could happen? Researchers and psychologists have been working hard on this issue‚ and eventually found the answer on this question. According to the Yale psychologist David Armor‚ “we are deluded by the illusion of objectivity; the notion that we are free of the very biases‚ we are so quick to
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Release date: 27 April 2014 Submission date: 9 May 2014 TUTORIAL ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING (1) Basic Concept 1. State the null and alternative hypothesis for each conjecture : a. A researcher thinks that if expectant mothers use vitamin pills‚ the birth weight of the babies will increase. The average birth weight of the population is 3.0kg. b. An engineer hypothesizes that the mean number of defects can be decreased in a manufacturing process of compact disks by using robots instead of humans
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Standardized testing is the most commonly used and well known method of testing used in the United States and many other countries around the world‚ but can harm educational quality and promote inequality. Standardized testing is used to determine student achievement‚ growth and progress. Standardized tests are tests that attempt to present unbiased material under the same‚ predetermined conditions and with consistent scoring and interpretation so that students have equal opportunities to give correct
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Should animals be used for scientific or commercial testing? From at least 1948‚ animals are being used by the U.S space program for testing aspects of space travel. Animals are used to help in medical treatments‚ determining the toxicity of medications‚ checking the safety of products for humans‚ and other commercial and biomedical uses. Though many say that there is no alternative method for researching a living organism‚ animals are so different from humans that the results are mostly irrelevant
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Is standardized testing the way to go? You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school‚ forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test‚ you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day‚ not getting enough sleep‚ etc
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of the way standardized tests are used to pass or fail students. Students have had to rely on just one test to pass them for the whole semester (FairTest). Although the tests require students to retain information until the end of the semester‚ I believe it is wrong to allow just a single test to decide whether an entire semester’s work will be rewarded will the credit that may have been well earned. Even general standardized tests such as the SAT‚ which almost every high school student
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