I ’ll be honest. Standard deviation is a more difficult concept than the others we ’ve covered. And unless you are writing for a specialized‚ professional audience‚ you ’ll probably never use the words "standard deviation" in a story. But that doesn ’t mean you should ignore this concept. The standard deviation is kind of the "mean of the mean‚" and often can help you find the story behind the data. To understand this concept‚ it can help to learn about what statisticians call normal distribution
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Standard deviation can be difficult to interpret as a single number on its own. Basically‚ a small standard deviation means that the values in a statistical data set are close to the mean of the data set‚ on average‚ and a large standard deviation means that the values in the data set are farther away from the mean‚ on average. The standard deviation measures how concentrated the data are around the mean; the more concentrated‚ the smaller the standard deviation. A small standard deviation can
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from the School Educational System in America? The standardized test issues have always been one of the most important issues in the educational system of a country. Standardized test is a test for which norms on a reference group‚ ordinarily drawn from many schools or communities‚ are provided (Van Kollenburg‚ Susan E.‚ 2002). In simpler terms‚ standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of students’ performance. A very large amount of students graduate every year from schools all over
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children are provided schools to attend. However‚ the quality of one school compared to another is undoubtedly unfair. Former teacher John Kozol‚ when being transferred to a new school‚ said‚ "The shock from going from one of the poorest schools to one of the wealthiest cannot be overstated (Kozol 2)." The education gap between higher and lower-income schools is obvious: therefore‚ the United States is making the effort to provide an equal education with questionable results. The United States
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recognize mistakes in reasoning (commonly called fallacies)‚ most students see those mistakes principally in the reasoning they already disapprove of rather than in their own reasoning. They develop some proficiency in making their opponent’s thinking look bad. Liberals see mistakes in the arguments of conservatives; conservatives see mistakes in the arguments of liberals. Believers see mistakes in the thinking of nonbelievers; nonbelievers see mistakes in the thinking of believers. Those who oppose
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would seem‚ more on a leap of faith than on grounded research. Consequently‚ this research seeks to examine the use of Multiple Intelligence Theory within a six-month teacher development project in a faculty of twenty teachers at a private language school in Vancouver‚ Canada. Initially the development project sought to initiate‚ foster and track knowledge transfer within the faculty by grouping teachers with contrasting Multiple Intelligence profiles and encouraging peer planning‚ observation and
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Overview of Phil. Educational system Three government organizations handle education in the Philippines. These are the Department of Education‚ Culture‚ and Sports (DECS)‚ the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). In 1999‚ the Department of Education‚ Culture and Sports‚ which governs both public and private education in all levels‚ stated that its mission was "to provide quality basic education that is equitably accessible to
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Vulnerable Population: The Poor “A vulnerable population is a group or groups that are more likely to develop health- related problems‚ have more difficulty accessing health care to address those health problems‚ and are more likely to experience a poor outcome or shorter life span because of those health conditions.” (Maurer & Smith‚2009‚ pp. 533) Poverty is linked with marked deprivation of well-being of an individual due to inability to meet basic needs. It could be due to lack of income or
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design of the mind. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ. Peklaj‚ C.‚ Kalin‚ J.‚ Pecjak‚ S.‚ Valencic Zuljan‚ M.‚ & Puklek Levpuscek‚ M. (2012). Perceptions of teachers’ goals in classroom‚ students’ motivation and their maladaptive behavior as predictors of high school math achievement. Studia Psychologica‚ 54(4)‚ 329-344. Powell‚ K.C.‚ & Kalina‚ C. J. (2009). Cognitive and social constructivism: developing tools for am effective classroom. Education. 130(2). 241-250.
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WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY College of Education Graduate School Zamboanga City Course Title: EDAD 203 (ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY) Course Professor: DR. ALICIA T. BALDECANO TOPIC: UNIT 4: DEVIANCE‚ SOCIAL PROBLEM AND SOCIAL CONTROL 1. What is Deviance? Deviant Behavior? 2. Competing Explanations of Deviance: Sociology‚ Psychology and Sociology 3. Types of Deviation: Theories and Causes of Deviance 4. Function of Deviance 5. Social Foundation of Deviance
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