...The Use of Guided Notes for Active Engagement during Teacher-Directed Lectures By Anna Jessica B. Pantujan Holy Cross of Davao College, Sta. Ana Ave., Davao City Introduction It has been said that students learn by doing. It follows that if one increases the doing, the result is an increase in learning (Blackwell & McLaughlin, 2005). Research indicates that student achievement improves when teachers provide opportunities for active engagement (Konrad, Joseph & Eveleigh, 2009). The major educational goals of student understanding of content and application of skills are commonly pursued via lecture in classroom settings. Students are held accountable for obtaining information from the lectures, and performance is evaluated on class exams and quizzes. Therefore, students should take thorough notes during lectures so they can refer to the content at a later time (Boyle, 2001). Marzano, Pickering and Pollock (2001) identify note taking as one of the research based strategies for increasing student achievement. Despite the importance of this behavior, however, students are often poor note takers (Austin, Lee & Carr, 2004). Since note-taking can be a difficult task for some students, the use of guided notes can give students a standard set of notes for future references (e.g., tests and quizzes) as well as eliminate the possible frustration, lack of motivation, and off-task behaviors that may exist due to poor note-taking skills (Anderson, Yilmaz &...
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...* Module/Week 1 Lecture Notes * Topic: Why Management of Information Systems (MIS) Welcome to the introductory course in the Management Information Systems program. Whether you are taking course as a Business Elective or your required BMIS core, you may find, as the text author states, “Introduction to MIS is the most important class in the business school.” I must agree. An understanding of how Information Systems support a business by helping to build competitive advantage is critical to everyone in today’s technology driven, global business environments. In this module/week, you will be learning about four nonroutine critical skills that make MIS professionals some of the most valuable employees a business has. These four skills are: Abstract Reasoning, Systems Thinking, Collaboration, and Ability to Experiment. Don’t panic at this point thinking you don’t have these skills. Over the period of your BMIS program you will learn these skills. It just happens often without you knowing it. MIS professionals are different than other people. We bridge the gap between technologist (who speak “technobabble”), and users (who speak “businobabble”). That gap widens at a rapid rate, so prepare yourselves for a wild ride. Additionally, this module/week introduces the five-component Information Systems Framework. This provides your first step in learning about Abstract Reasoning and Systems Thinking. It puts information into a “model” (Abstract Reasoning) that helps...
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...Accountancy AYB321 – Strategic Management Accounting Readings: o AYB321 Text, Chapter 6, to p202 (BSZ Chapter 14) o AYB321 Text, Chapter 7 (BSZ Chapter 15) o For reference: Lipe, M and Salterio, S. (2000). The balanced scorecard: Judgemental effects of common and unique performance measures The Accounting Review, 75 (3), 283-389. (on CMD) Overview: Lectures 6 & 7 explore the use of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategic performance measurement and evaluation method. Lecture 6 introduces the BSC by providing the performance measurement context, defining financial and non-financial and lead and lag indicators, and providing an overview of the four perspectives of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard. Lecture 7 explores and demonstrates the process of BSC development via strategy maps and KPI selection, before discussing the key findings of BSC-related research. Lectures 6 & 7 are structured as follows: Lecture 6: 1. Introduction 2. What is the BSC? 3. The four perspectives Lecture 7: 4. Strategy maps 5. Creating a BSC 6. What does the research say? 1. Introduction a) Performance Measurement Performance measurement serves the following purposes: Evaluate performance, and provide rewards Communicate the strategy, plans Allow managers to track their own performance against targets and take corrective action Guide senior...
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...AK/ADMS 4562.03 - CORPORATE TAX LECTURE 5 NOTES – last updated September 22, 2015 Tonight's Topics and Problem Set 1. QSBC capital gains exemption – Chapter 13 (13340 to 13355); s. 110.6 – see problems contained in these notes and Problem set (in separate document) 2. Income Splitting with Family Members as Shareholders 3. Corporate Attribution Rules - Chapter 13 (13390); S. 74.4 - see problems contained in these notes Recommended Questions: Chapter 13, Multiple Choice Questions 6 and 7 and Exercises 8 and 10 “$800,000” Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (C.G.E.) The March 21, 2013 federal budget has increased the C.G.E. to $800,000 starting in 2014. This amount, i.e., $800,000, will be indexed to inflation, i.e., it will be further increased, in 2015 and thereafter based on the rate of inflation. In 2015 the C.G.E. is $813,600. The availability of the QSBC capital gains exemption is an advantage of incorporating a small business (a CCPC earning active business income in Canada). This same exemption, with a higher $1M exemption for dispositions on or after April 21, 2015, is also available for capital gains on certain farming and fishing assets. This course will not focus on family farms or fishing properties. Note that an $800,000 capital gains exemption is really a $400,000 taxable capital gains deduction...
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...Critical Reasoning - An Overview by Stephen Bolton, 11th March, 1999 Critical Reasoning questions are one third of the Verbal section of the GMAT exam. These questions are designed to test one's logic and reasoning skills, particularly in evaluating arguments. The questions themselves could deal with almost any subject matter, and no familiarity with that subject matter is assumed or required. This tutorial aims to give you the tools to find the answer that ETS wnat you to find which is just what you need to raise your score. The GMAT's Critical Reasoning is intended to be an effective way of evaluating how people reason. However, the truth is that the logic in many of the questions is less than completely sound. There is definitely room for interpretation on many of these questions, judging from many examples taken from old GMAT tests. But there is little you can do about that - they make up the questions, they make up the rules. You could cry about it. Go ahead, have a good cry. We will wait. .......... Feel better? Good. Now let's take a look at how we can best this test to obtain the best score we possibly can. A Critical Reasoning Problem is comprised of three main parts: the text, the question, and the five answer choices. We will deal with the different types of questions later. Here's an example of a Critical Reasoning text: A CEO of a major company noted a serious decline in worker productivity during the previous five years. According to a report done...
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...Week 2 The Foreign Exchange Market (Chapter 7) Chapter 7 Outline A. Foreign Exchange Market B. Spot Market C. Forward Market Chapter 7: The Foreign Exchange Market 1 Foreign Exchange (FX) Market Foreign exchange market allows one currency to be bought/sold for another currency ie. permits transfers of purchasing power denominated in one currency to another. Interbank market – wholesale market in which major banks trade with one another. Accounts for ~95% of foreign exchange transactions (Retail mkt . ~ 5%) Spot market – where currencies are traded for immediate delivery Forward market – where contracts are made to buy or sell currencies for future delivery Swap transactions – involve a package of a spot and a forward contract 35% 53% 12% Spot Transactions Forward Transactions Swap Transactions Chapter 7: The Foreign Exchange Market 2 Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets OTC Exchange Traded Spot exchange market: – settlement is T+2 Currency futures market: – standardised contracts for delivery at a future date Forward exchange market: – settlement is >T+2 Currency options markets: – standardised contracts giving the right to buy or sell Swap market Chapter 7: The Foreign Exchange Market 25731 International Finance 3 BIS Triennial survey Last survey was in April 2010 (next one will be conducted in April 2013) Summary findings: Global FX market turnover increased from $3.3 to...
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...Lecture 3 Kinematics Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Units of Lecture 3 Position, Distance, and Displacement, Average Speed and Velocity, Acceleration Motion with Constant Acceleration Freely Falling Objects Motion in Two Dimensions Relative Velocity Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Position, Distance, and Displacement Before describing motion, you must set up a coordinate system – define an origin and a positive direction. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Position, Distance, and Displacement The distance is the total length of travel; (Example - if you drive from your house to the grocery store and back, you have covered a distance of 8.6 mi). Displacement is the change in position. (Example - If you drive from your house to the grocery store and then to your friend’s house, your displacement is 2.1 mi and the distance you have traveled is 10.7 mi). Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Distance is the length of Displacement is the the actual path taken by an object. straight-line separation of two points in a specified direction. Distance, s is a scalar Displacement, D is a quantity (no direction) Contains magnitude only and consists of a number and a unit. Example: (20 m, 40 mi/h) vector quantity Contains magnitude AND direction, a number, unit & angle. Example: (12 m, 300; 8 km/h) Consider travel from point A to point B in diagram below: Consider travel from point...
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...What is Punishment? Why Punish? PART II Note: * When people think about prison people think about the absolute worst thing there could be * If you think about it Santa to little kids, kind of plays a policing or surveillance role * Other Examples: * Pinocchio (Don’t Lie) * Hansel and Gretel * Snow White (Don’t take food from strangers) * Boy That Cried Wolf * Little Red Riding Hood (Don’t talk to strangers) * You can learn a lot about a society by looking at who is imprisons (Winston Churchill Quote) * Many would argue in terms of the history of punishment that it has been transformed from a spectacular public ritual involving the acute application physical pain into a relatively hidden process of discipline and suffering * Prison fills a particular need for the public * Prison itself still fulfills a particular need that the public has * Punishment and Prison acknowledges the role of symbol, emotion, irrationalism, faith, and beliefs * Punishment has a symbolic and emotional role in society * Popular punitive slogans are effective because they address some of our deeper, emotional, psycho-social drives * We like to think that penal policy is rational and scientific * We like to think that we have come a long way since the death penalty * There are 3 distinct factors of the Penal Policy * (1) Seeks to control crime and seeks to understand crime * We...
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...Homework, November 9, 2006 AST110-6 Due Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1. If nuclear fusion of hydrogen in the core of the Sun were to stop now, what would we see on the surface of the Sun tomorrow? Why? Will we be able to tell that hydrogen burning in the core has stopped? How? (20pt) (Hint: What particles that are generated by the fusion of hydrogen can escape from the interior of the Sun immediately?) You won’t be able to see any changes on the surface of the Sun…probably you won’t see anything from helioseismology data either. This is because photons generated in the core of the Sun takes about one million years to get to the surface. This means that the thermal energy generated in the last minute of the fusion will last for about a million years, and the Sun will just very slowly contract. So, we will not see changes on the surface until a million years later. However, we should be able to tell that the hydrogen fusion in the core has stopped by observing the solar neutrinos. The neutrinos do not interact with the solar plasma, and can escape the Sun and reach Earth in about 8 minutes. So, we would find that the neutrino flux is decreased. 2. Chapter 11, Review Question 7. What is the defining characteristic of a main-sequence star? How is surface temperature related to luminosity for main-sequence stars? (20pt) 3. Is this statement sensible? Why, or why not? (20pt) If the Sun had been born as a high-mass star some 4.6...
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...Accg100 Accounting 1A Lecture Notes Staff version Semester 1, 2014 Table of Contents Lecture Notes Week 1: Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12 Introduction to Accounting, Ethics, Business Entities, Financial Statements Accounting for Transactions –Part 1 Accounting for Transactions –Part 2 Accounting for Adjustments- Part 1 Accounting for Adjustments- Part 2 Completion of Accounting Cycle Accounting Systems Revision Chapters 1 - 4 Accounting for Retailers Accounting for Inventories Non-Current Assets Cash Management and Control Accounting for Receivables Tutorial Exercises Lecture Notes Week 1 Introduction to Accounting, Ethics, Business Entities, Financial Statements Required Readings: HEM: Chapters 1 and 2 All required readings must be completed before attending class What is Accounting? The process of identifying, measuring, recording and communicating economic information to assist users to make economic decisions. Users of Accounting Information The users are internal and external decision makers. Internal: owner and manager External: investors, creditors, banks and government Management Accounting Providing information to management to help them plan, control and make decisions. Users are internal. Financial Accounting Reporting information about the entity’s performance and financial position to external users to help them make decisions. The financial statements produced for the external users are known...
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...holds no physical details and is therefore independent of its final implementation ( not interested in ''how' the data will be represented ). We can think of it as data analysis in the abstract. It 'models' the data structures of a system. Slide 5 Iterative process: We may need to make several versions of the diagram, checking it against the user requirements and refining it until it is correct. Slide 10 Note: attributes on the ERM diagram. We do not normally include all the attributes, for a given entity, on the ERM diagram. This is to ensure that the ERM is clear and concise; too many attributes could lead to confusion. We tend to only show them if they add important information to the diagram, or clarify a problem. My advice is to only include 'key' fields. Slide 17 In the original CHEN notation, the description (verbs) of the relationship is placed inside a 'diamond'... Example: [ relationship between A+B] s Entity Entity Note: in the lectures we use an alternative; just place a 'label' on the line... “x” A “x” B A B Slide 19 Note, with 1:1 relationships Always make further analysis! What can happen is that one of the entities could actually be just an attribute of the other, or it may indicate a '1:m' relationship over time. Example: A department may have many managers during its lifetime; a manager may also be in charge of different departments during his/her career. You would have to decide whether...
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...02/04/2013 Lecture 6: Project Management – Day 1 Word of the day: Stakeholder Announcements: * Please submit your assignment appropriately into the three designated areas for the memo, spreadsheet and organization chart. What is Project Management? * Running a project from planning through completion * May also involve ideation, idea selection, the feasibility analysis, writing a proposal, managing the proposal approval process, and other pre-planning aspects * Project Management is important to know because you will manage projects at some point in life. What is a Project? * A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to achieve a particular goal. * Must have a unique purpose * Must have a fixed lifespan. A project has a beginning and an end. * Requires resources, often from various areas * Should have a primary sponsor * Involves uncertainty. Projects can be risky at times and can fail. * Typically in the real world, someone is assigned as the project manager and someone as the project sponsor. The project manager gets some resources, particularly people to work with to bring the project to fruition. * E.g., upgrading financial systems, migrating from one CRM system to another, etc. * Projects are bound by the Triple Constraints: a) Time: When do we have to be done? (e.g. person month, person hours) b) Resources: How much money do we have? (e.g. money, materials, and everything that given...
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...Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting and the Business Environment Lecture Notes Chapter theme: This chapter serves four main purposes. First, it explains the differences and similarities between financial and managerial accounting. Second, it describes the role of management accountants in an organization. Third, it explains the basic concepts underlying Lean Production, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), and Six Sigma. Fourth, it discusses the importance of upholding ethical standards. I. Globalization A. Import/Export Data i. Imports into the United States (in billions) 1. The data reveal an enormous increase in import activity from 1990 to 2004. In particular, imports from Canada, Mexico, and China skyrocketed. ii. Exports from the United States (in billions) 1. The data reveal an increase in exports to Canada and Mexico. Interestingly, the increase in exports to China pales in comparison to the growth rate in imports from China. iii. Internet Usage 1. The internet fuels globalization by providing companies with greater access to geographically dispersed customers, employees, and suppliers. 2. The number of internet users more than doubled during the first four years of the new millennium. 3. As of 2004, more than 87% of the world’s population was still not connected to the Internet...
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...International Finance S.O.E. – Small Open Economy Foreign Exchange – a foreign country’s currency. Exchange Rate: e, the “price” of a foreign currency. Eg. The price of 1 US dollar is $ CDN , e=$ CDN Currency Appreciation: The value of a currency rises relative to other currencies. – e falls. (the price of foreign currency falls) Currency Depreciation: a currency’s value falls. – e rises. Case 1 Spring break Case 2 “Hollywood North” grows Exchange Rate Regimes Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes * The external value of the currency is set at a certain level. * Pegged to the price of gold. (“Gold Standard”) - Bahamas -Panama In order to maintain the value of the currency at the predetermined level, the Bank of Canada must intervene regularly in the foreign exchange market. * Canada: 1962- 1970 Problem: Can’t just set (“fix”) your currency at some desired rate. Strong forces of S and D in international currency markets. Suppose: Value of Canadian dollar rises. BOC must step in and sell Cdn dollars in International Currency markets to offset the upward pressure on the currency. Monetary policy is being used to support e at the desired level, at the expense of the domestic economy. “Fixed exchange rates” policy requires adjustments of the Canadian money supply. * “becomes” Canada’s Monetary Policy. A country Cannot use one policy instrument to influence two policy targets. For example, Canada can use monetary policy to target interest...
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...1. Record. During the lecture, record in the main column as many meaningful facts and ideas as you can. Write legibly. 2. Reduce. As soon after as possible, summarize these ideas and facts concisely in the Recall Column. Summarizing clarifies meanings and relationships, reinforces continuity, and strengthens memory. Also, it is a way of preparing for examinations gradually and well ahead of time. 3. Recite. Now cover the column, using only your jottings in the Recall Column as cues or "flags" to help you recall, say over facts and ideas of the lecture as fully as you can, not mechanically, but in your own words and with as much appreciation of the meaning as you can. Then, uncovering your notes, verify what you have said. This procedure helps to transfer the facts and ideas of your long term memory. 4. Reflect. Reflective students distill their opinions from their notes. They make such opinions the starting point for their own musings upon the subjects they are studying. Such musings aid them in making sense out of their courses and academic experiences by finding relationships among them. Reflective students continually label and index their experiences and ideas, put them into structures, outlines, summaries, and frames of reference. They rearrange and file them. Best of all, they have an eye for the vital-for the essential. Unless ideas are placed in categories, unless they are taken up from time to time for re-examination, they will become inert and soon forgotten...
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