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Evaluation of Aptitude Tests as Assessment Instruments

a brief evaluation of their applicability and effectiveness. General Aptitude Test Battery The General Aptitude Test Battery o...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

Children and IQ Testing

caregivers educational level, home environment, socioeconomic status and prenatal exposure to substance abuse, violence exposure w...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

The Legal Issues Involved in Animal Rights

groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), have won some legal battles. Germany has changed its constitut...

Consumer Goods Company and Marketing Mixes

of cost-effective channels to target prospects outside their place of business (Weeks, 2001). Furthermore, some business-t...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...

Statistical Studies, Validity and Reliability

that is, "causal" questions are those which would compare the type of activity (the cause) with the effect of that cause. This ty...

Treatment Plan for an African American Woman Suffering from Alcoholism and PTSD

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

Microbiologist Study of Cells and Various Techniques

methods of studying cell and cell structures, for microbiologists, are generally reliant on microscopes. Obviously, the cell canno...

Primary and Secondary Reading Instruction Changes, Testing, and Higher Accountability

teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Education and Qualitative Content Analysis

In other words, the achievement of goals is clearly a focus of the assessment and testing process. But on an individual level, as...

Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

factors that are not within an educators or students control. For example, critics have argued that standardized testing is socio...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Convicted Criminals and DNA Mandatory Testing

expenditure of millions of dollars and countless hours of time trying to solve such crimes. Consequently, our legal and criminal ...

Metabolites and Methadone

Once indigested the methadone is metabolised by the liver. This is mostly by demethylation and followed by cyclization (cytochro...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Study Objectives and Testing Bias

and the purpose of these objectives related to the problem as a whole. This can be done in a single paragraph. The study objecti...

Personal Development Strategy

the box, and may be sensitive to criticism (Belbin, 1996). The development of those skills may help to create a very commercially ...

School Testing and Bias

are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...

Insuring Fairness in Testing

continues to exist even today, such attacks are certainly warranted. It is up to those administering tests to insure that t...

Asthma and Food Allergies

authors found a correlation between the anaphylactic reaction and a history of asthma and atopic dermatitis. There are abou...

CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ACQUISITIONS: KRAFT AND CADBURY

seems to be the trend in a variety of industries, thanks to the global recession. In this eat-or-be-eaten environment, one of the ...

Assessing an Investment to Reduce Costs

it will not provide direct revues, but it is expected to save in the region of $500,000 every year in terms of the research and de...