Terrelle McCain Bill Morris English 111-07 11 June 2013 The Effects of the SAT on Students The Scholastic Assessment Test properly known as the SAT has become a major test in high school students‚ or college bound student lives. The SAT has become a test that determines the future of many high school students. Some worry about this "important test"‚ as it determines if many will get into the Ivy League college of their parents dream. From the start of middle school‚ teenagers practice for this test
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and the selectivity‚ SAT optional policy has been accepted by more than 850 colleges and universities among the U.S. (College Board‚ 2015). Although rigorous studies have demonstrated that SAT/ACT optional policy has successfully achieved these two goals (Coleman‚ 2011; Epstein‚ 2009)‚ the comprehensive impacts of SAT Optional can be complex. This literature review shows the story of SAT Optional and the logic behind this policy‚ aiming at exploring the impacts of SAT Optional on both applicants
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Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleName Capella University Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleOne of the populations that has a lot of culturally diverse individuals is the military and veterans. In veterans there is a lot of cultural diversity with individuals ranging in backgrounds from all over including African-American‚ Asian-American‚ Hispanic-American‚ and Caucasian-Americans. Veterans suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses including depression‚ PTSD‚ anxiety‚ suicide‚ and substance abuse. PTSD
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In 1926 the SAT also known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test was adapted from and Army IQ test and administered as a college admissions test. The test didn’t catch on until 1933 when the president of Harvard started using the test to assess scholarship applicants because he believed it was an effective measurement of intellectual potential. The other standardized college admissions tests in the US is the ACT. This originally stood for American College Testing. However‚ in 1996 the official organization
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Question: Are people better at making observations‚ discoveries‚ and decisions if they remain neutral and impartial? Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience‚ or observations. Objectivity by researchers has not‚ and probably never will be attained. People will always have biases; some will be created by cultural values and others by personal views. The search for objectivity lies in the realm of philosophy along with the search for reality
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believe one of the main problems in today’s schools is that most educators do not know how to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into their curriculums and classrooms. The lack of culturally responsive teaching hinders the education of the students who are culturally diverse. Culturally responsive teaching needs to become an important part of every curriculum due to the rising amount of diverse students in schools. Unfortunately‚ students of non-white cultures tend to struggle in the classrooms
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Running head: EFFECTS OF CULTURALLY SENSITIVE TREATMENT AND COUNSELING Effects of Culturally Sensitive Treatment and Counseling on Native American Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers ’ Success Table of Contents Page Abstract 3 I. Introduction II. Literature Review
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the teacher education department’s Conceptual Framework‚ writers will write about what Culturally Responsive Teaching is and how action steps they will take to become Culturally Responsive Teachers. Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. (Ladson-Billings‚ 1994). Some of the characteristics of culturally responsive teaching are: Positive perspectives on parents and families‚ Student-centered
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"I like the SAT‚ but I don’t love it. I wish I could find something that was a more fair and accurate measure" (Cloud‚ par.14). The ACT and SAT should not be used as a requirement for college admission. First off‚ there are a plethora of students that are not good test takers and will crack under pressure. Also‚ these tests are unreliable; there are other things like GPA that can measure a student’s performance. Finally‚ these tests are a disadvantage to foreign exchange students and students that
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Culturally responsive teaching is a student-cantered approach to teaching in which the student’ unique cultural strengths are identified and nurtured to promote student’s achievement and a sense of well-being about the student’s cultural place in the world. The differences between a “good teaching” strategies and culturally responsive teaching is the teacher is the facilitator and the students are the teachers. The teacher follows the students lead and let the students learn in a student-centered
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