To appear in: Moutinho and Hutcheson: Dictionary of Quantitative Methods in Management. Sage Publications Principal Components Analysis Introduction Principal Components Analysis (PCA) attempts to analyse the structure in a data set in order to define uncorrelated components that capture the variation in the data. The identification of components is often desirable as it is usually easier to consider a relatively small number of unrelated components which have been derived from the data than
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the school climate Angelina Anne Balasundaram; Mohd Nazir Bin Mohd Yunos Faculty of Education Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Abstract Instructional leadership is a pivotal factor in the principal becoming an effective leader in a school setting and its implications on the school climate has very significant impact on a school. This research is carried to identify whether this role of the principle as the instructional leader is being practised in Malaysian government schools and its
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Beginning a high school day at 7:20AM is too early for students to be fully awake and to succeed academically. An early school start does not allow students to receive the recommended hours of sleep. A lack of sleep can negatively affect the health of high school students. Starting school extremely early in the day prevents students from having the mental efficiency to be successful in morning classes. High schools should change their academic school day beginning time from 7:20AM to 9:00PM. It
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School Uniforms Many public schools are now going to some form of dress code or school uniform for its student’s body. Take a stand for or against a dress code or uniforms. I’m for school uniforms for it’s a great idea for schools to implement a policy on school uniforms because statistics show that students who wear uniforms make better grades‚ then the students aren’t distracted on what others are or aren’t wearing. Students would feel a sense of equality with one another as they are wearing the
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state of school lunches has been a point of debate for many since Michelle Obama’s Healthy‚ Hunger-Free Kids Act signed into law December of 2010‚ giving full authority to the USDA in setting the nutritional standards for all foods regularly sold in school lunch lines‚ stores‚ and vending machines. The law was set to provide additional funding to meet the updated standards‚ however‚ the cost was severely underestimated. Using data provided by Medicaid‚ eligibility for the free or reduced school lunch
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Have you ever thought about how you see high school? I’ve wondered what I will look forward to and what I will dread. There are some excellent and atrocious things to high school. I think it will okay though. I see high school as deeper work‚ more responsibility‚ and more homework. The teachers are a lot harder on you. In high school‚ you get more freedom than in middle school because you’re older. There is harder work because the standards are higher. There is more responsibility because the
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corporate buildings all have armed security. Which is logical‚ but why not in schools? Children and their safety should be more important than the money in the bank or the secrets in some CEO’s office. For some reason‚ certain people just find the idea of arming teachers as an out-of-this-world solution. It shouldn’t be a surprise that school shooters are effective and successful when they meet no opposition from within the school. When in the right hands‚ guns can be a great life saving tool; and‚ when
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many schools around the world enforce uniforms‚ requiring students to wear specific clothing. School uniforms‚ which was first established in 16th century England‚ are a topic of much debate in the public school system of the United States. Many people feel that uniforms reduce competition among students and bring a sense of unity in school. People who are against school uniforms think that they prevent students from expressing themselves and inhibits creativity. Many students dislike school uniforms
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that parents worry about their children in schools? The reason is the increased numbers of school shootings across the United States. The school shootings happen almost twice a week during last year which often end with the killer shoot and kill about a dozen of school students before the shooter were killed by the police’s lethal force. The result can be damage families‚ community‚ and friends. In order to stop the school shootings in the USA‚ the school system must increase their security‚ arming
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Since 2009 kids all over the world have been changed and not by appearance by their diet at school. Michelle Obama has made it her destiny to change everyone’s lunch. Now what make’s her think that she can just but in like the way she already has? Well the fact is‚ is that she wants kids to be more healthy so instead of giving us a normal amount of food which most middle schoolers eat a lot of she decided that she would make us healthier and cut that in half. She also has decided that she would also
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