...Scores are always represented with whole numbers (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 are the only possible grades). Because these grades do not represent percentages, but instead correspond with specific rubric requirements, one could theoretically answer 90% of questions on a given exam correctly, but still get a 5 if the 10% they missed represented crucial problems that corresponded to the 6 and 7 grade mark-bands. Additionally, each subject has slightly different ranges that correspond with different grading boundaries, making it difficult to compare IB grades with other education systems. In the MYP, a student takes several classes that are each graded on the 7-point grading scale, including a First Language, a Second Language, Humanities, Math, Science, Physical...
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...ant to know what it takes to get into Columbia University, which had a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? We just got a clue thanks to Peter Jacobs at IvyGate, who discovered an online folder where students who were accepted into Columbia's class of 2017 are sharing their Common App essays. Columbia is one of hundreds of colleges that accept the Common App, a standardized undergraduate college application. One of the most daunting parts of the application is the essay, where applicants are asked to write up to 650 words about nearly any subject under the sun. Unfortunately, the Google Drive folder was deleted shortly after we discovered it. But we picked out a few noteworthy opening paragraphs, below, and you can read more about what was in the essays over at IvyGate. The 'life as a movie': Google Drive The dramatic opening: Google Drive The hipster paradox: Google Drive The extended resume: Google Drive The romance novel: Google Drive SEE ALSO: 25 Colleges Where Students Are Hot And Smart Ads by Google Ivy League Math TutorsAll tutors Ivy League. Stat, Trig, Geometry, Algebra. Free Lesson. manhattanivyleaguetutors.com Recommended for You 17 Celebrity Before-And-After Plastic Surgery Disasters 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success -- By The Numbers 23 Secrets To Booking Cheap Flights Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Julie Zeveloff on Twitter. Ask Julie A...
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...Many individuals believe that proposal essays are written to convince readers that certain problems exist. Others feel that they are written to allow the reader to view a particular problem in an alternative way. However, proposals are created to address problems and try to provide solutions, while creating emotional responses within the reader. In Why Not a Football Degree?, written by William F. Shugart II, there are many solutions to the specific problem, such as, specific degree programs, lengthening deadlines, and offering other ways to earn payment. Shugart inserts the idea that many violations occur with the rules established by the NCAA, which is also known as The National Collegiate Athlete Association. In order to help reduce the...
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...Alternative Assessment An assessment in which students create an original response to answer a certain question. Students respond to a question using their own ideas, in their own words. Examples of alternative assessment are short-answer questions, essays, oral presentations, demonstrations, performance assessment, and portfolios. Other activities included in this type are teacher observation and student self-assessment. * Components of Alternative Assessment a) Assessment is based on authentic task that demonstrate students’ ability to accomplish communication goals. b) The teacher and students focus on communication, not on right and wrong answers. c) Students help the teacher to set the criteria for successful completion of communication tasks. d) Students have opportunities to assess themselves and their peers. Performance-based Assessment Performance assessment ( Mueller, 2010) is an assessment in which students are asked to perform real world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills. It is a direct measure of student performance because the tasks are designed to incorporate context, problems and solution strategies that students would use in real life. It focus on processes abd rationales. There is no single correct answer; instead students are led to craft polished, thorough and justifiable responses, performances and products. It also involved long-range projects, exhibits, and performances...
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...is better, Alternative or Traditional Education? Is sanction school the better formula for what's to come for our youngsters or is traditional/conventional training the better course for our kids. Research have demonstrated that scholars who went to contract schools for a long time have indicated a change scholastically superior to state funded school understudy in math and proficiency (Fryer, 2012). Research takes a gander at sanction schools vs. state funded schools in a cluster of states, including Florida, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Charter school scholars overshadow their standard state funded school associates. Students in New Jersey enlisted in urban sanction schools take in altogether all the more in both math and perusing contrasted with their conventional state funded school associates. More and more the weight is shifting more towards charter schools. The data is showing that it seems that students are really getting a better education in charter school system. Should parents consider taking their children to charter schools? This is a question that I hope will be answered during the essay? April Browne is a 3rd grade charter school teacher in a Newark charter school; this is from the interview from February 2014. What do you see as the future of charter schools? Browne stated that in the beginning it was positive but now as years have passed it have been challenges. Overall the look is good and positive. Do you think...
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...Introduction WELCOME The TPR Plan Welcome to The Princeton Review! We’re delighted that you chose us to help you prepare for the GMAT. This course provides two important benefits: • A review of the content tested by the GMAT • Test-taking strategies to help you maximize your performance The Quantitative (or Math) section of the GMAT tests concepts from high school arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The Verbal section measures your reading, grammar, and logical reasoning skills. The Analytical Writing Assessment essay tests your organization and writing skills. The Integrated Reasoning section tests much of the same content that you see on the Math and Verbal sections but does so using question formats that often display data in charts or tables. You have seen most of these topics previously, in high school or elsewhere. However, you probably haven’t used these skills in quite some time. This course will review these areas and introduce you to a few topics you may not have seen before. In addition to reviewing the material tested by the GMAT, you will learn testtaking strategies to help you best use your knowledge within the format of the test. You will learn the traps the test writers set for you and learn how to avoid them. You will learn how to use the multiple-choice format to your advantage. We’ll cover everything you need to know to meet the specific challenges posed by the GMAT. Use the multiple-choice format to your advantage. Structure...
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...| Singapore School, Kebon JerukAffiliated to Singapore International School (Indonesia) | INTERDISPLINARY PROJECTS TERM 1 AY. 2013-2014 Name:____________________________________ | LEVEL: Secondary | Subject/s: 1. A-Math 2. Bahasa Indonesia 3. Biology 4. Business Studies 5. Chemistry | 6. Chinese Language 7. Extended Math 8. FLE 9. Geography 10. Physics | | | Teacher in charge: Subject teacher in chargeA Math, E-Math, Physics:Business Studies, Economics and GeographyBiology and Chemistry FLE Bahasa Indonesia:Chinese Language | Ms. Syafrina MachfudMr. Suresh Ms. Syafrina Mr. Abner (Upper secondary), Ms Jaimi (Lower Secondary)Mr. Jeff (Upper secondary) and Ms Moneth (Lower Secondary)Ms. Titik (upper secondary), Ms Ice (Lower Secondary)Mr Gao WG (Upper secondary), Gao DZ (Lower secondary) | Note: Please contact your subject teacher for specific subject requirement | 1. Background To celebrate the World Food Day on 16 October 2013, the IDP will derive the ideas from the Global Food Crisis. More than 842 million people in the world are undernourished. The Global Food Crisis presents a challenge to those working to alleviate world poverty. The full extent of its causes and effects are still far from totally understood and there is significant debate about the most effective and fairest ways to tackle the Crisis. What is clear is the extent of rising food prices. For example between the start of 2006 and mid 2008 the average world...
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...Lesson Plan Dollar and Cents Objectives: * Students will be able to identify coin/money values. * Students will be able to write amounts of money. Materials: * Clean sheet of money * Pencil * Play Money * Money Worksheet 1 Plan: Introduction/Motivation 1. Watch a lesson on money on “Brain Pop”. 2. Ask how many of them think they can count money really well, and how many think they could improve with some practice. 3. State objective: We're going to be working on money this week and today you will learn how to count money. A. Teach: 1. When it comes to counting money, bills are probably the easiest things to count. Why? (They have the amount written on them.) 2. How do we tell coins apart? (size, thickness, pictures) List coin names and values. 3. Refer to the video--list money that he started with and its value. Now, as a class, determine values of the money he began with. 4. How much money did he lose? B. Model: 1. Demonstrate how to count money. Always start with the bill or coin of greatest value and work down to the bill or coin with the least value. C. Guided Practice: 1. Give the class a bag of play money. 2. Tell them to count how much change they have and record their answer as #1 on their blank sheet of paper. 3. Continue with questions. (See Process Questions, next.) Choose volunteers to demonstrate and explain how they got their answers. Process Questions-- 1. How much...
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...father died he was a private tutor to earn money for his family. He excelled in science and math. His major works included Critique of Pure Reason which tested the limitations of reason itself, Critique of Practical Reason which concentrated on ethics, and Critique of Judgment which investigates aesthetics. There are too many works to mention throughout his life that put into words his thinking, understanding, suggestions of life’s questions. As he was an influence to many, there were many that influenced him. Kant worked a decade to tweak his previous work, Inaugural Dissertation, where he never explained how individuals obtain data and also how we develop the data acquired. David Hume awakened him from his slump in 1781 he responded with Critique of Pure Reason. He produced many works in the years to follow. Kant claimed that just because something is not proven real doesn’t mean that it’s not real. In his essay “Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” he stated “if one cannot prove that a thing is, he may try to prove that it is not. And if he succeeds in doing neither (as often occurs), he may still ask whether it is in his interest to accept one or the other of the alternatives hypothetically, from the theoretical or the practical point of view”. Philosophical discussion and analysis have been influenced with Kant’s ideas. Kant’s moral philosophy was extended in three works: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, and...
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...Not all but a year ago I took an ACT prep class on Wednesday nights, where they taught us how to look for tricks in the test, how to avoid doing actual work, sneaking, crafting the trade of shortcuts. I remember sitting there in the bright fluorescently lit, bleak whitewashed room that was 163, while the older woman preached how the ACT is all about knowing the little nuances of the ACT. At this point it is 8pm I have been awake for 14 hours, my head is tucked away in my arm, cocooning into my jacket, entangled in a web of dreams. However hearing this my ears perk up, like a dog barking at the mailman, I drag my head up, eyes adjusting to the light, brain rebooting, I raise my somewhat limp and half extended hand up. I asked so you mean to tell us that the ACT doesn’t even look for our academic ability? She proceeds with the deadly stare as is if this 60 year old woman was going to grab the yardstick nearby and break it over my head for asking such a dumb question. She clears her wrinkly dangling throat and proceeds with of “course it’s about academic ability, we are just trying to teach you how to look at the test”. Standardized Tests were devised by experts convened by state education commissioners and governors to set uniform benchmarks for learning. They come labeled in different names from District Assessments,...
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...Evaluate the contribution psychological research has made towards our understanding of how children from birth to five learn and develop competencies in the processes of observation, problem solving, exploration, experimentation and prediction, thinking and decision making. Introduction The aim of this essay is to evaluate the developmental theories of ‘Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy’ (PSRN) and an ‘Exploration and Investigation’ aspect of ‘Knowledge and Understanding of the World’ (KUW) in Foundation stage children. This essay will explore Piaget and Vygotsky and their points of view on PSRN and issues which arise from development and it will consider current research and documents relevant to practice and the implications and recommendations for early years practice. Furthermore key concepts of emergent numeracy, mark making, counting and number development will be explored. The skills of observation, problem solving, exploration, experimentation and prediction, thinking and decision making fall into all six aspects of children’s learning and development and these skills led themselves to science and teaching as well as PSRN on which this essay is going to focus on. Theoretical approaches Piaget’s constructivist theory saw children as actively constructing their knowledge of the world, for themselves, and as being active seekers of solutions to problems (Martin 2007). It could be agreed as practitioners acknowledge the importance of child-led activity as being...
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...Quality preschool is crucial for educational reforms to correct the flaws of the NCLB legislation. A quality preschool would help school children develop their reading and math knowledge. Ideally, a well-trained teaching staff should be in place to help in the successful implementation of the policy. Local involvement was absent from the Bush plan and that elicited a backlash from the parents and communities. The Obama plan places educators, families, students, and communities at the center of the policy. They are going to play a collaborative role in the implementation of...
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...Assessing Smartpens in Teaching and Learning An Extended Essay Presented to Mr. Edward Jay M. Quinto Mapua Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements English for Academic Purposes 2 (ENG11) by Reymond A. Alferos Edward Joshua C. David Khent A. Mendoza Joshua P. Par September 2015 Acknowledgments Sincere gratitude is extended by the researchers to the following who never ceased in helping until this paper is structured: Their parents and friends for giving them support all throughout the progress in constructing the research paper; Ms. Michel T. Alferos, for sharing her time and ideas regarding the research, to make the research interview possible; Mr. Edward Jay M. Quinto, for being the best ENG11 teacher who guides and gives us advices and strategies on constructing our research paper; Above all, outmost appreciation to the almighty God for the goodness, kindness and divine wisdom He has given to us. R.A.A E.J.C.D K.A.M J.P.P Abstract This study was conducted to assess Smartpen in teaching and learning. This paper focuses on Smartpen, the features of Smartpen, their application on teaching and learning, impact, and problems on using Smartpen in teaching and learning. The necessary information for this qualitative extended essay were acquired through an interview with an expert and journal articles...
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...Collation of Research Research 1 | Source | Expectations - Whole School | Expectations - Lessons | Expectations - Student | Expectations - Teacher | Faringdon Community College (Psychology Dept. have produced a set of expectations which are shared with students each year).INFO:11-18 Mixed comprehensive school situated on the edge of Faringdon – an affluent Oxfordshire market town.Specialist Status in Engineering and Applied LearningRated Ofsted Outstanding May 2008 KS5 DATA (2012):Small cohorts – 42 in 2012.2012 Average UCAS points per student – 359.A*-E 99% at A2A*-B 50% at A2 | Attendance & punctuality - find out in advance of the next lesson what work was missed so students will not be behind.Lack of homework will affect rewards such as “Student of the month”All courses give students the following info in first lesson:An outline of the syllabus;coursework details (type, interim deadlines); a schedule for completion of the syllabus (weekly or termly); exam details. | Range of activities in lessons e.g. questioning, matching tasks, videos, discussions & note taking.Active participation, e.g. discussing & listening to others’ ideas.Effective written communication is encouraged.Students expected to bring past work to lessons.Bringing textbooks to every lesson.Regular setting of personal targets which are reviewed in lessons.Weekly exam practice.After each ‘Unit’ is taught a past paper will be sat as a Unit Mock.Copying / highlighting chunks of notes from textbooks...
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...Hossler and Bontrager (2015) state that the sociological approach focuses on the early stages of one's college journey and "emphasizes the influences of social and cultural capital" (p. 51). Thus, this theory highlights one's social context, such as their social class, community, and high school, as well as parental involvement and expectations. Throughout my first essay, my environment was a strong predisposition that contributed toward my expectation of attending college. Due to my parents' middle-class status, their cultural and social capital garnered them certain knowledge sets. My mother knew how to research for the best school districts and suburbs using the internet, as well as employ her social network of coworkers, college friends,...
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