scale. While they measure an individual’s knowledge of a particular subject‚ it can be argued that their results are at times misleading. When it comes to education this is evident amongst the mass amount of students that take these tests through the year. Standardized tests are not the best way to measure a schools academic performance because they can not determine a teachers effectiveness due to the varying needs and abilities of students. Standardized tests are not the best measure of a students
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Is IPO rating a good measure for investment decision? -- Ankur Maheshwari New issues of stocks that are sold for the first time are called Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). These issues are marketed and sold through underwriters (brokerage firms). In general‚ IPOs have provided investors with a wild ride with regard to returns. Onelife Capital IPO‚ listed on 17th October has provided 80% return within a week. Many investors have also been burned in the IPO market. Taksheel Solutions Ltd IPO
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Standardized Tests Really Measure Intelligence? Some may beg to differ when people say the SAT or ACT are not fair to everyone. Not everyone may test well‚ so these tests are not an accurate assessment of someone’s intelligence. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ the SAT first stood for the Scholastic Aptitude Test‚ then the Scholastic Assessment Test; now it does not stand for anything. The SAT is a college entrance exam for high school students‚ and it measures strictly mathematical and
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“Discuss what is meant by the statement that ‘Security measures must be commensurate with the threat’”. 2. INTRODUCTION This assignment will address the questions directed which are broken down into two parts‚ and they are: 1. Identify the main purpose of security management from my perspective. 2. Discuss the statement “Security measures must be commensurate to the threat”. While both of the above elements of the question complement each other‚ without understanding the main purpose of security
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Victory Kamau Miss French U.S. History 24/01/2016 Lincoln Essay “The greatest measure of the 19th century was passed by corruption‚ aided and abetted by the purest man in the world”. This quote was said by Thaddeus Stephens‚ when he was with his African-American mistress after the debate (Lincoln). The quote illustrates Abraham Lincoln’s and others’ arm-twisting and political maneuvering in January 1865 to secure passing of the 13th Amendment‚ which‚ when ratified by three-quarters of the
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changes can lead to drastic outcomes; he conveys this through direct characterization‚ irony‚ and symbolism. Dahl directly describes Mary Maloney as the pregnant wife who undergoes most of the severe changes in the story. These changes all end up having pretty extreme outcomes. For example‚ when her husband randomly informs her of what we infer to be a break up in their relationship‚ that shatters her perfectly ordered life and she became a murderer. This is the main change in the story and it also has
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carbon energy to low-carbon energy. China is a large developing country. Economic development over-reliance on the consumption of fossil energy resources‚ resulting in increasing carbon emissions‚ environmental pollution is increasing and other issues have seriously affected the quality and efficiency of economic growth and sustainable development. Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress clearly stated: the construction of ecological civilization‚ the basic formation of energy saving resources and protecting
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Sen. Dick Gordon: "PNoy‚ Abad Could Have Been Indicted for Bigger Charges" One amongst the country’s most significant lawmaker‚ Senator Richard "Dick" Gordon disclosed the truth throughout an interview with certain media outlets that former Pres. Noynoy Aquino (PNoy)‚ former Budget Secretary Butch Abad might have been indicted for bigger charges specifically malversation and also graft and corruption. Based on Sen. Gordon while cooperating with the judgment of the office of the Ombudsman to indict
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falling on one side of the centerline When the process is in statistical control‚ find the false alarm probability (Type-I error) for each case. The corresponding probability measures are obtained from the Normal table as P(3 " Z) = 0.00135 P(2 " Z) = 0.02275 P(1 " Z) = 0.1587 Solution: ! i) Use the Binomial distribution to ! calculate the probability measures. ! 3! 3! P(Y ! 2 n = 3‚ p = 0.02275) = (0.02275)2 (1" 0.02275) + (0.02275)3 = 0.00153 2!1! 3!0! Type-1 Risk considering both
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During the past century‚ abortion has been one of the most passionately debated subjects of controversy in the United State. Since the early decades of the 20th century‚ abortion was used as a measure of limiting families to a manageable size. In the past‚ due to the lack of knowledge‚ many families usually gave birth to a lot of children that they could not afford to raise‚ which is why abortion was abused in early times as an extreme measure of birth control to avoid further poverty to families
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