What is assessment and what makes it “good?” Assessment is gathering information to ensure teachers make informed decisions about student progress. Five key components of good assessment are: classroom assessment‚ authenticity‚ formative‚ special needs intervention‚ and benchmarking. These enhance and improve student learning‚ and are outlined below. Good classroom assessment involves ‘of‚ for and as’ of learning. This practice involves teachers using inference and evidence‚ while students
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1) FIRM OBJECTIVES: The standard economic assumption underlying the analysis of firms is profit maximization. Real world firms‚ however‚ might not‚ and many times do not‚ make decisions based on the profit-maximization objective‚ or at least exclusively on the profit-maximization objective. Other objectives include: (1) sales maximization‚ (2) pursuit of personal welfare‚ and (3) pursuit of social welfare. Although firms are assumed to make decisions that increase profit in standard economic
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We cannot know what God is like In most religions‚ there is a creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority‚ more commonly known as God. The problem most people have upon the existence of God is that God has not shown God’s physical being to anyone. This also creates the problem when it comes to knowing what God is like. Most Muslims say that we can know what God/Allah is like through scriptures and messengers (Prophets) which are able to tell us what God is like. The Prophet
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Best Buy was founded in 1966 by the current CEO Richard M. "Dick" Schulze. Based out of Eden Prairie‚ Minnesota the corporation currently has 446 stores and earned over 83 million in total revenue last year. Best Buy carries a wide variety of products consisting of Major Appliances‚ video and audio equipment‚ computers‚ software‚ music‚ and wireless technology. When analyzing this corporation it is important to pay close attention to its current and future services and products‚ any problems with
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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At What Cost? “Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood” (Amnesty International). This is a quote from Augusto Pinochet‚ the ruthless dictator that ruled Chile from 1973-1990. Augusto Pinochet sought to take away power from the political left wing‚ and did so by killing around 3‚000 people‚ sending 200‚000 more into exile‚ and torturing thousands. To some‚ Pinochet was believed to have done what was necessary to strengthen the economy and political stability of Chile. To others‚ General Augusto
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What Makes People Effective? This chapter‚ contributed by Edward E. Lawler‚ outlines the processes and ideas by which an organization can create a virtuous spiral –a symbiosis between individual employees and their organization to work towards achieving everyone’s goals. People in an organization perform well when they are properly motivated. The organization needs to know what motivates its people to be responsible‚ and willing to provide‚ the components it needs to succeed. The capabilities
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What Makes a Good Entrepreneur? The terms entrepreneur‚ manager and owner are very much in meaning yet exhibit different representations of business people who are present at the top management. Entrepreneur is a person who sets up a new organization or enterprise and accounts for accountability on his part of the risks that could come onto his shoulders for one reason or the other. When the discussion is of the for-profit organizations‚ the entrepreneur term replaces itself with founder. (Versi
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an all time low as factories and businesses were shutting down‚ and unemployment was at an all time high. Immediately‚ as Roosevelt stepped into office‚ he started taking initiative by creating the New Deal. The first New Deal took action on what was referred to as the “3r’s.” Briefly‚ it gave relief to the poor‚ provided time and recovery for the economy‚ and started on the reformation
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What Makes a Leader In the three surveys that I took about what makes a good leader‚ all three of the individuals agreed on relatively the same thing. Not one of the survey takers chose the answer neither agree nor disagree or worse. Each answer was agree or strongly agree to the fourteen questions. A leader has great characteristics and the ability to motivate others. In this paper‚ I will go over their results and talk about what makes a good leader. There are three main things that make
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