Standardised Testing Name: Institution: Abstract This paper explores two published books that touched on pros and cons of standardized testing in schools. Popham‚ (2001) and Sacks‚ (1999) suggest that through pros a student will have to pass certain tests to determine that he or she has acquired proficiency in various fields of study. According to the two authors‚ in cons the students who have mastery of the content‚ don’t show in the test; it mostly promotes teachers to teach tests and evaluate
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Analysis of High Turnover Rate Introduction High turnover rate of minorities and female employees has become a serious issue in the United States. Even though many ethnic races form this country‚ male Anglo-Saxons dominate the majority of the workforce. It is not uncommon for minority and female employees to leave their company after only working for a few years. Why has this behavior become a trend? In order to stop this trend‚ companies must ask themselves several questions. For example‚ what
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Nations‚ drug trafficking refers to illegal drugs sold and distributed. This happens in the United States as well as in other countries; the main concern with transnational drug trafficking for the United States is illegal drugs being transported. In from other countries the states the sales of them also draws large amounts of money into other countries. Because illegal drugs such as marijuana‚ and cocaine‚ are in demand in the United States‚ trafficking in drugs is a very common and lucrative transnational
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LECTURE OUTLINE – DRAFT 2 [pp. 3-4 are new] NB MIDTERM EXAM SUNDAY‚ OCTOBER 20‚ 2013 CONCLUDE LECTURE 4 THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL SHARPE MODEL’S APPLICATION TO PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT THE MODEL’S ASSUMPTIONS [ARE THEY REALISTIC?] ESTIMATING THE MODEL PARAMETERS RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES IMPROVING THE MODEL SHARPE VERSUS NAÏVE DIVERSIFICATION [BODIE Appendix 6A +] REFERENCE: BODIE 6th ed.‚ CHAPTER 9‚ SECTIONS 9.1-9.5 AN APPLICATION OF THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL A Disciplined
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Significance of the study This study is significant in such away‚ freshmen criminology students of Naval State University would learn and be corrected the part in which improper practices and wrong doing about the usability of cell phone. Students of naval State University particularly taking up Bachelor of Science in Criminology would possess great knowledge‚ guidance and additional awareness trough this research. This proposed study is beneficiary among freshmen criminology student of Naval
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Pros and Cons for and against the Euro In the table below a number of arguments for and against a single European currency have been compiled. For the success or failure of the single European currency much depends on the size of the effects described below. Do the gains from reduced transaction costs‚ the disappearance of exchange rate instability‚ and greater price transparency outweight the losses from the cost of introducing the new currency and possible macroeconomic adjustment costs? Judge
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time periods. The two stories both have their pros and cons of the society that is being portrayed in the text. The pros of the societies in the stories are found more in “The Voter” than in “Tribal Scars”. This mainly has to do with the fact that the society in Achebe’s story was based in a more recent time which allowed for the society to be more far and democratic and this would be the most noticeable pro throughout the stories. Another pro for “The Voter” would be that almost all of the
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term structure of interest rate we need to elaborate how interest rates function and how they are determined. Interest rates are a vital tool to all the macro-economic policy objectives of a government such as control of inflation‚ investment as well as employment. Interest rates refer to the price paid by deficit agents for borrowing funds from the surplus agents. A line that plots interest rate at a set point in time is the term structure or yield curve. Interest rates which may be short term or
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Central Banking (FIN10908) Hong Kong Linked Exchange Rate System Hong Kong Linked Exchange Rate System Introduction Hong Kong’s Linked Exchange Rate system is a currency board system‚ which requires both the stock and flow of the monetary base to be fully backed by foreign reserves. It is the exchange rate system implemented in Hong Kong to stabilize the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar (HKD) and the United States dollar (USD). This means that any change in the monetary base is fully
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should affect present and future exchange rates. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons imports a year’s supply of French champagne. Payment in euros is due immediately. ANSWER. The euro should appreciate relative to the dollar since demand for euros is rising. b. MCI sells a new stock issue to Alcatel‚ the French telecommunications company. Payment in dollars is due immediately. ANSWER. The spot value of the dollar should increase as Alcatel demands dollars to pay for the new stock issue. The future value
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