High/Scope Information Paper on Preschool Assessment by Ann S. Epstein‚ Ph.D.‚ Director‚ Early Childhood Division Lawrence J. Schweinhart‚ Ph.D.‚ President Andrea DeBruin-Parecki‚ Ph. D.‚ Director‚ Early Childhood Reading Institute Purpose of Paper This paper addresses the many questions the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation has received about testing four-year-olds. Our reasons for sharing this paper with early childhood practitioners‚ policymakers‚ and parents is three-fold: (a)
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Informal assessment Informal assessment provides us with immediate feedback during the teaching session‚ allowing us to improve our teaching‚ both spontaneously and later upon reflection. Informal assessment at its most informal is a way of evaluating “how things are going” during a lesson‚ and at its most formal can point out needs for future assessment‚ and give you a strong sense of the learning culture of your students states Radcliff C (2007). When teaching‚ I am continuously assessing learning
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completed the highly-qualified assessment and in-service programs. The Special Education program evaluation consist of four schools (two middle schools and two high schools) with students with disabilities with a demographic of 85% Caucasian students‚ 10% African American students‚ 1% Asian students‚ and 4% Hispanic
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Several components make up a comprehensive geriatric assessment. These include looking at the client’s medical‚ psychological‚ social‚ and environmental well-being. In addition‚ with the elderly patients‚ the nurse should evaluate for an increased falls risk‚ skin integrity‚ and the ability to independently manage their ADLs (Cary & Lyder‚ 2011). Prior to the assessment‚ it would be helpful if the nurse could review past medical visits as well as note any chronic diseases and their management. The
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registered nurse Introduction National competency standards for registered nurses were first adopted by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) in the early 1990s. The ANMC was a peak national and midwifery organisation established in 1992 to develop a national approach to nursing and midwifery regulation. The ANMC worked in conjunction with the state and territory nursing and midwifery authorities (NMRAs) to produce national standards – an integral component of the regulatory framework
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decisions on their patients care. Intuition is a basic piece of nursing science that becomes possibly the most important factor when healthcare providers get to oblivious learning without restraint or speculation. One can also assume that intuition is also based on their overall experiences and knowledge acquired during their nursing practices. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the article based upon the concept analysis on nursing intuition towards the description of method used‚ and the application
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personality assessments to test personalities. Testing personalities is much like testing intelligence and because it measures something that is intangible and invisible it can be quite the difficult task. There are different theories of personalities and different methods of assessing those personalities; however some methods of assessment are shared between theories. The four theories are psychodynamic‚ humanistic‚ trait and social learning and all have different roots. The methods of assessment are projective
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Nurse Educator The AACN Preferred Vision of the Professoriate in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2008) states that “courses in the nursing program will be taught by faculty with graduate-level academic preparation and advanced expertise in the areas of content they teach.” There is national recognition‚ however‚ of the growing shortage of nursing educators to fill faculty and other educator roles within the healthcare delivery system. Master’s programs that prepare graduates for nurse
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entirely make or break an experience. This is as true in clinical experiences as it is in life. My experience in my senior year clinical preceptorship was without a doubt unique but I feel its uniqueness was in what I made of it‚ something every nursing student can do for themselves. If there is one lesson to gain from reading about my experiences it should be that the success of a clinical is entirely what the student makes of it. My first day I walked into the ICU and almost ran right back out
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excellent nursing care (Srivastava‚ 2007). However‚ health care provider’s roles and responsibilities in meeting health care needs of the clients in consideration to cultural perspective and diversity are getting more challenging and complicated due to increased number of people from a group of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society‚ which‚ in turn requires health care providers to acknowledge and understand variations of cultural healthcare beliefs‚ values and practices. Transcultural nursing is essential
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