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A Study Using the Scientific Method

In order to test this hypothesis, the research team established four 50x50 cm quadrants, with 50 cm between them. Each of these qu...

Psychology: Informal Practice To Bona Fide Science

importance of Lightner Witmer, considered to be the first patient of psychological treatment. As the discipline continued forward...

Science in the Media

a explain how and why this is bad for the environment, including the problem of molecules which take many decades to break down, a...

Atmospheric Modeling and the Scientific Method

to directly observe phenomena that are otherwise too large (such as the solar system) or too small (cellular anatomy) to be viewed...

All About Collaboratories

resolution skills" (Gardner, 2005). Here, conflict is not seen as a problem or difficult but an opportunity to bring out various p...

Meaningful Learning Experiences

brain and how learning takes place supports moving away from a "mechanistic/Newtonian paradigm" that relies primarily on teacher-d...

Scientific Method Philosophy

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

Cells and Journal Articles' Examination

The article presents the reader with some very good presentations in that it is specifically addressing one particular endeavor in...

Overview of Galileo

want to discuss how Galileo studied religion with great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determ...

Scientific Revolutions and the Perspectives of Thomas S. Kuhn

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

Community College Learning and Teaching

funds, federal funds and miscellaneous funds (Association of Community Colleges). The community college system serves a different...

Learning Theories of Maria Montessori

their environment, stating that first the senses, then the education of the mind(Wesissglass 1999, see also Schute 2002). ...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

Drawing Up a Contract for Learning

a clear, understandable and realistic business plan that could be applied to a real life scenario without any adjustment. The deve...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

Nursing Student Learning and EHNE

This research paper pertains to a classroom scenario in which nursing students are having learning difficulties. Then, the writer ...

Assessing Distance Learning Online Class Groups

place. In a face to face scenario there may be first impressions which are inaccurate and also pre-existing prejudices may influen...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

The Use of Computers in Online Education

may decide to spend some years traveling in their twenties and work late into their seventies or eighties. Conversely, they may de...

Early Childhood Education Issues

real-world application; otherwise theyre solving problems for the sake of solving problems; this can lead to boredom, irritation a...

Reflective Learning Model and Patient Depression Treatment

ten years and in raising her son has also incurred several debts which have created stress, these are an issue. Joan needs to work...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Watergate: Lessons Learned

involved many different elements that essentially worked towards eliminating or destroying democracy in America (Lichtman, 2005). ...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

The Role of a Primary School Teacher

intends" (Kyriacou, 1998). The curriculum for the main part of determined by the government, with targets such the literacy and a ...

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

6 Cases and Technology

that companies that imitate the original and enter the market later (de Haviland had a passenger jet before Boeing, but who today ...

6 Articles on Technology

second problem that arises is when one design begins to dominate the market. For instance, what aircraft designer today wants to ...