Jillian Young EDU 530: Adv. Techniques in Instruction and Assessment Root Causes of Student Achievement Problems Due: March 1‚ 2011 Descriptive Section: This is an average American fourth grade class. Most students complete their homework every night‚ are proficient in Reading and Math‚ and come from stable homes. There are a few advanced students‚ and a handful of low-performing students. I asked their teacher to identify the root causes to the lack of performance in her-lowering performing
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Though there is support from psychological concepts for the implementation of merit pay increasing student achievements‚ there are also opposing arguments as to why merit pay would not help increase student performance. For example‚ educators cannot control who is assigned to their classes‚ and the motivation and ability of the students varies every year (Ramirez‚ 2011). The ability varies because of the different backgrounds the students come from which affects their intelligences‚ learning capabilities
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Stephanie Li Professor Pines Rhetoric 101 8 October 2011 Word Count: 1394 Rodriguez’s Transformation: Developing a “Sociological Imagination” In his essay‚ “The Achievement of Desire‚” Richard Rodriguez informs readers that he was a scholarship boy throughout his educational career. He uses his own personal experiences‚ as well as Richard Hoggart’s definition of the “scholarship boy‚” to describe himself as someone who constantly struggles with balancing his life between family and education
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Assessment is a number of different methods which are used to evaluate performance and can be used measured against set criteria. I use formative assessment throughout the process so that every time I interact with the candidate I assess their achievement of LO to guide the learning process which informs my decision about the next stage of learning and assessment. When I worked though the plan with candidates and that together we feel that all LO have been covered I conduct a final summative assessment
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hero. Virginian. George Washington is one of‚ if not‚ the most famous people in history‚ however there is more to him than what meets the eye. There were social‚ economic‚ and cultural influences on George Washington that affected his lifetime achievements. George Washington was born February 22‚ 1732 to Augustine and Mary Bell Washington. Augustine was a “wealthy planter”(Burn 19) and owned a “plantation sometimes called Pope’s Creek”(Middlekauff 8). “Boys of Washington’s status---he was the son
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This report is based upon the book "Katharine Hepburn: American Women of Achievement." Kathern Hepburn was born on November 8‚ 1909 in Hartford‚ Connecticut. She found her love for acting in college at‚ Bryn Mawr College1. Hepburn was an actress of the 20th century cinema‚ often referred to as a legend. When she was younger she always played roles in plays of strong women who dealt with men as equals. In her family she was one of the 3 girls out of 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. Katharine tried
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Achievements of Albert Einstein in his life * Einstein showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light. Einstein went against the grain and totally dismissed the "Old Physics." He envisioned a world where space and time are relative and the speed of light is absolute (at the time‚ it was believed that space and time were absolute and the speed of light was relative). * He asserted the equivalence of mass and energy‚ which would lead to the famous
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. By Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press. 2002 Synopsis of the book. Chomsky examines and explores the use of propaganda in the mass media. His focus remains on the "elite" as he would call them‚ or the corporations and politicians that control the mass media in our country. He speaks of how the U.S. government used propaganda in order to gain support for our country’s involvement in wars from Wilson’s presidency to Bush Sr.‚ and now
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Why was Stalin able to achieve total power in the USSR by the end of the 1920’s? Stalin’s rise to power was due to many different factors. Firstly‚ on Lenin’s funeral day Stalin had given the wrong date to Trotsky which meant that Trotsky never turned up. Stalin took great advantage of the ‘Lenin Levy’ and how they worshipped Lenin. Stalin had written a short book which had summarised all of Lenin’s ideas and plans. From the side of the new Bolsheviks‚ this showed Stalin as the ‘true heir’ or natural
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How did Charlemagne Build and Govern his Empire? Charlemagne was one of the most successful rulers of his time period. How did he build and govern his empire the way he did? He used a combination of his personal charisma and intelligence‚ the feudal system‚ the Church‚ and war in order to create the greatest Empire since the time of the Romans. His dislike of corruption‚ and his power in battle all contributed to his success as Emperor. Charlemagne himself was the key to his own success. He himself
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