Journalist Alexandra Robbins returns to high school to follow nine students as they pass through their years of fierce competition. Robbins combines fascinating investigative journalism and riveting storytelling to provide a moving narrative that explores how our high stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. Robbins purpose is not only to show how carried away our generation has gotten with the desire to succeed but also to highlight and make aware of the pressure that the majority
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Quantitative Article Critique Preface This paper is an academic critique of the article written by Yin-Kum Law (2008) titled The role of attribution beliefs‚ motivation and strategy use in Chinese fifth-graders’ reading comprehension found in Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Educational Research Journal. This article will be broken down by section‚ with each segment being independently evaluated. This paper is a critique of several different aspects of the research study including: data collection
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A Qualitative Article Critique: Older Women’s Reflection on Accessing Care Across Their Breast Cancer Trajectory: Navigating Beyond the Triple Barriers A Qualitative Article Critique: Older Women’s Reflection on Accessing Care Across Their Breast Cancer Trajectory: Navigating Beyond the Triple Barriers This paper will critique the qualitative study written by Peiters‚ et al.(2011)‚ which looks at the journey and barriers older women diagnosed with breast cancer must hurdle to receive treatment
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MODULE 2: RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Vandana G. Kotapally Grand Canyon University: SPE 557 04/25/2012 Abstract Causes of dyslexia or reading disabilities have been hotly debated by researchers and educators. Knowledge regarding the causes of reading disabilities is important as they define the strategies that will used to help students with dyslexia learn. Dyslexia is caused by differences in the information processing patterns of learning disability students. Language and phonological skills
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Article Review and Critique Week One Assignment Strategic Management MIS 44285 Instructor: Dr. Alan Smith Date: February 7‚ 2013 Article Review and Critique: “Knowledge -Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge” By Michael E. Porter (1999) Synopsis This article first introduces there are not specific knowledge workers before. The workers are all thought as manual workers. Peter F. Drucker pointed out two different types of workers in all types of business environments: the
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Research Article Critique Research Article Strengths & Weaknesses Health care is a dynamic and forever changing field‚ and the professionals working within the health care field are not any different. Initial and continuing education is necessary to provide relevant and current nursing care. Critiquing research is one way to expand understanding of a subject‚ and ultimately make changes in practice in response to the current research knowledge obtained from studies. Additionally‚ nurses
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CRITIQUE OF PRIMARY ARTICLE B. Purpose of this study The purpose of this study was to obtain information about the measurement of trace metals (zinc‚ magnesium‚ copper‚ manganese‚ selenium‚ iron‚ nitric oxide) and compare it to the severity of sickling of hemoglobin F. C. How was the research/experiment done? What essential values were measured? There were ninety four people chosen for the study. Fifty- nine of the patients had no episodes 3 months prior to the study. The other thirty-five
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Langer Article Critique Arthur M. Langer (2002). Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education. The purpose of this study was to report on the use of learning journals as vehicles for encouraging critical reflection among non-traditional students and to compare variances with studies among traditional students. An objective of the study was to understand how adult students in a technical computer class responded to the requirements for learning journals.
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Article Critique on REDD+ Paul Tomasello Columbia Southern University BEM 3001: Environmental Law Professor Mitch Weiss REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a financial incentive program to limit deforestation worldwide. REDD+ is funded internationally. REDD+ also has political power from the United Nations and thirteen program countries. This partnership has expanded into twenty-three countries in Africa‚ Asia‚ the Pacific‚ and Latin America.
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Week 3: Article Critique Titchener‚ E. B. (1898). The postulates of a structural psychology. The Philosophical Review‚ 7(5)‚ 449–465. The purpose of this study was for experimental psychologists to use the same principles of division through out the process‚ as it remains a representation of modern psychology as the exact counterpart that is parallel to modern biology. Other determines factors that ware of importance were the scope and the divisions of psychological science in consistence
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