...the ACT in order to gain entrance into the colleges of their choice. The ACT is a standardized test which is made to measure your critical thinking skills and to assess your ability to apply knowledge and logic when solving problems. The ACT is broken up into four multiple-choice tests and one optional essay. The multiple-choice tests are: English, Mathematics, Reading and Science Reasoning. First, The English test is given, which includes five passages with 15 questions each, for a total of 75 multiple-choice questions that you must answer in 45 minutes.The passages cover a variety of subjects, ranging from historical discussions to personal narratives.The portions of each passage are underlined,...
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...Ancient China was the first country in the world that implemented a nationwide standardized test, which was called the imperial examination. The main purpose of this examination was to select for able candidates for specific governmental positions.[4] The imperial examination was established by the Sui Dynasty in 605 AD and was later abolished by the Qing Dynasty 1300 years later in 1905. England had adopted this examination system in 1806 to select specific candidates for positions in Her Majesty's Civil Service,modeled on the Chinese imperial examination. This examination system was later applied to education and it started to influence other parts of the world as it became a prominent standard (e.g. regulations to prevent the markers from knowing the identity of candidates), of delivering standardized tests. Influence of World Wars on Testing Both World War I and World War II made many people realize the necessity of standardized testing and the benefits associated with these tests. One main reason people saw the benefits was from the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests, which were used during WWI to determine human abilities. Alongside the Army Alpha, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale "added momentum to the testing movement."[5] Soon after, colleges and industry began using tests to help in accepting and hiring people based on performance of the test. Another reason more tests began to come forth was that people were realizing that the distance between secondary education...
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...college attended. * High school transcript/secondary school record in a sealed envelope. * Supplemental Document cover sheet (optional) - use this form to submit any additional materials. Click here to download a guide to submitting your transfer application. Mail documents to: MIT Transfer Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-108(T) Cambridge, MA 02139 Essays, Activities & Tests Form Essays The required essays consist of three short-answer response questions (250 word limit). Remember that your essays are not a writing test. They’re the place in the application where we look for your voice - who you are, what drives you, what's important to you, what makes you tick. Be honest, be open, be real - connect with us. That's all that matters. Activities Please use our form, not a resume, to list your activities. There is only enough space in this section to list a few things, so please choose the activities that mean the most to you and tell us a bit about them. This will tell us more about you than any "laundry list" of everything you've ever done. Standardized Tests You should self-report your...
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...Business Law Ass. No. 2 Essay Q.1 Student No. 201212185 What is vicarious liability? Analyse the differences between contractors and employees and explain why these differences are important, in your answer you should consider the multi-factor test. Vicarious liability is a part of Tort law, which can be defined as the imposition of liability on a third party, such as an organisation or employer for the wrong actions, non-actions or negligence of an employee performing their employment duties on behalf of the organisation or employer. It is mostly a component of common law, set by a doctrine of judicial precedents but also involves civil law as vicarious liability falls under concurrent powers with its legislative power of the Parliament, shared between both federal and the states jurisdiction to pass statutes, legislations and Acts (Pendleton & Vickery, 2009). Vicarious liability can only be imposed with a standard of proof, ‘the balance of probabilities’, based on a multi-factor test rule, which includes the usual tests of negligence by the tortfeasor’s conduct, with a dispute process based on proving a ‘balance of probabilities’. To understand vicarious liability it is important to first outline the legal responsibility of an employer for the conduct of employee’s. Employers are responsible to actively contrive precautionary measure, such as policies, procedures and contractual boundaries to minimise the risk of an employee committing a wrongful act while within the course...
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...Brigitte Weingart uses the lens of Andy Warhol’s work in the Screen Tests to explore the “grammar of glamour” in cinematic art. Weingart’s ability to produce an explanation for the nuances associated with the loaded term that is “glamour” provided me with a better understanding of my own association with glamor and the personal process I take to appear glamorous. The instructions Andy Warhol gave to his muses was to “pose or perform as oneself,” but really what Weingart is able to hone in on is the duplicity of what Warhol actually wanted (10). He wanted the performance of the self to be innately glamorous. To this effect, one of Warhol’s favorite portraits in the Screen Tests is that of Ann Buchanan. Weingart refers to an interview of Warhol in which he shows signs of favoritism towards Buchanan’s screen test stating: ““She did something wonderful mar-velous . . . . She cried”” (66). It is unclear whether Buchanan sheds tears as a form of emotional response or if she is her eyes are merely watering as a response to their sensitivity from posing. Warhol’s art is tricky in the way that it is working with an arbitrary idea or conception, but it still holds on to a very societally charged framework in which people can achieve glamourous-ness “by following a certain script (or fashion or diet or make-up method) which they claim will make us “similar” to the stars we admire” (45). Interpreting Buchanan’s screen test, particularly trying to do so through the lens of Warhol and with the...
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...Shellenberg Jordan Bohuslavsky November 10, 12 Acceptance Kids today are so excited about enrolling into a university after graduating from high school. But, today the admission requirements are a bit absurd. I feel that the requirements that they are setting for students are bringing applicants down. Requirements vary widely from country to country and sometimes from institution to institutions. The common criteria requirements, that they are looking at is GPA, sat and act scores, and the general college admission essay. GPA is the number one looked at requirement for enrollment of colleges. During this admission process, GPA is one of the most confusing topics for students. It’s and issue of translation. If every high school utilized the same grading system, it would be a lot less trouble comparing grade point averages from different schools. Different schools grades totally different from any other schools some schools give extra “points” to honors, accelerated, and AP classes, there are many different method of calculating a cumulative GPA. Independent and boarding schools use the grading system based on a 6-10, or 11-point scale, there are many different grading systems such as: the 4.0 scale, percentile system, and the letter grade methods (Pererson’s, 2012). The minimum GPA that colleges are expecting is B+ average. Students that take course in high school that are tougher have more of an advantage of being accepted. They want to reward you...
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...1. Name your primary text. (Berger, Anzaldua, Porchia, Carson, Freire, Butler) Freire, “The Banking Concept of Education” 2. Free write about the following: Why have you chosen this essay to focus on? What list of issues are key to the essay you've chosen? Which issues seem most important to you? I want to explore the concepts of praxis and poesies in education. Freire claims that the Banking Concept of the education represses students from praxis. I want to explore in what sense because education even in the Banking method requires practice, at least even in becoming a better memorizer. If the students are engaging in praxis then is there any poesies happening? Are the teachers or the students really creating anything? Or, are they both just acting like inorganic entities following a series of protocols and memorizing algorithms? My next goal is to point to the Math Department at Brooklyn College and do an investigation on the curriculums of the different math courses. I’m currently in a Pre-Calculus class and “doing well” requires that the student memorizes hundreds of properties in a short period of time and apply them on examples. The problem with the examples is that they are alienated from reality. For example, if I propose to you that 1+ 1 = 2 without illustrating to you why this relationship is true and just ask you to memorize a table of different results such as 1+ 1 = 2, 2+ 2 = 4 and etc… are you really learning anything? My goal after that will...
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...Chapter 12 Human Resource Management True/False Questions WHY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT 1. High-performance work practices are those that lead to high individual and high organizational performance. (True; moderate; p. 323) 2. High-performance work practices involve a commitment by management to improve the knowledge skills and abilities of the organization’s employees, increasing employee motivation, and enhancing the retention of quality employees. (True; easy; p. 323) THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS 3. The human resource management (HRM) process consists of 10 activities necessary for staffing the organization and sustaining high employee performance. (False; moderate; p. 323) 4. A labor union is an organization that represents workers and seeks to protect their interests. (True; easy; p. 323) 5. In the United States, nearly 25 percent of all workers are unionized. (False; moderate; pp. 323-324) 6. Affirmative action programs assure that minorities are given equal opportunities in the workplace. (False; difficult; p. 324) 7. A community fire department can categorically deny employment to a firefighter applicant who is confined to a wheelchair. (True; moderate; p. 324) 8. The United States will experience a shortage of 20 million workers over the next 10 years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (False; moderate; p. 325) HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 9. Human resource planning can be condensed into two...
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...applicable to private sector employees. According to Jacobsen, J.D, there are no explicit federal "privacy rights" beyond "reproduction, contraception, abortion, marriage and childrearing", and so the notion of a constitutional right to privacy has little bearing on employment law. b. What privacy rights are afforded to public and private sector employees? The restrictions on employer inquiries of applicants at hiring are based mainly on prohibitions against discrimination, rather than on privacy rights. Pre-employment privacy rights for both public and private sector employees are very limited beyond this. Post-employment privacy rights are also often the ancillary effect of discrimination laws. For example, the Americans with the Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) specifically prohibits the disclosure of medical information relating to disabled. In the public sector, two factors govern the permissible extent of intrusion into an individual's affairs, that is, the relation of the subject's job to the line of inquiry, and secondly, the subject's consent. It follows that public sector employees having more sensitive or responsible positions will have proportionately less protection of their privacy. The Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable government searches affords some protection for federal employees, on the basis that the public need to investigate, in comparison to the privacy needs of the individual, must be...
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...fabrication,deception,cheating, bribery, sabotage, frofessorial misconduct, personation,etc.[1] At the present time,academic honesty should be attached to great importance for the fundamental reason that it is such a rare quality among the academic world,especially in colleges.For instance,in almost every college nowadays,students accomplish their essays or homework by simply copying and pasting the entire passage they found from baidu or google,and for students who are looking forward to a higher grade,they tend to read a few dozens of essay focused on the particular topic and then they make their own one by picking some useful parts from different eaasys,add a few original ideas and piece them together.Whenever you step into a test room,there is a possibility finding some test takers cheating.Even among professors in colleges,it is not uncommon to find that their dissertation appears to have changed the original data or the experiment results to meet their own points. According to a recent survey,in college only 7.8% of the students could complete their homework indenpendently,75% of the respondents admitted that they copied essay from the Internet,whilst when the experiment results were...
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...| | ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET(adapted for LAW1100 major essay submission purposes) | UNITCode: LAW1100TITLE: Legal Framework I | NAME OF STUDENT (PRINT CLEARLY) fisher shane FAMILY NAME FIRST NAME | STUDENT ID. NO.10104032 | NAME OF LECTURER (PRINT CLEARLY)brad moore | DUE DATE18/4/2011 | Topic of assignmentDuty of Care IN THE LAW OF NEGLIGENCE | Group or tutorial (if applicable) | Courselegal framework 1100 | Campusmt lawley | I certify that the attached assignment is my own work and that any material drawn from other sources has been acknowledged. Copyright in assignments remains my property. I grant permission to the University to make copies of assignments for assessment, review and/or record keeping purposes. I note that the University reserves the right to check my assignment for plagiarism. Should the reproduction of all or part of an assignment be required by the University for any purpose other than those mentioned above, appropriate authorisation will be sought from me on the relevant form. | OR, if submitting this paper electronically as per instructions for the unit, place an ‘X’ in the box below to indicate that you have read this form and filled it in completely and that you certify as above. Please include this page in/with your submission. Any electronic responses to this submission will be sent to your ECU email address (or, where relevant, the digital dropbox for the Blackboard site for LAW1100).Agreement X ...
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...Categories: Humanistic Perspective and Global and Cultural Awareness of Diversity. The corresponding General Education Goals are respectively as follows: Students will analyze works in the field of art, music, or theater; literature; and philosophy and/or religious studies; and will gain competence in the use of a foreign language; and Students will understand the importance of global perspective and culturally diverse peoples. Course Goals: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following: 1. discuss the universality and the diversity of literary thought; 2. apply critical and analytical approaches to the study of African and Caribbean literature to compose critical and analytical essays about such literary works and, specifically, about literary elements; 3. write a fully documented, multiple...
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...1.1 Analyse how types of assessment are used in lifelong learning Assessments should be a regular process; it might not always be formalised, but you should be observing what your students are doing, asking questions and reviewing their progress throughout their time with you (Gravells 2012). It Is a way of finding out if learning has taken place .It enables to ascertain whether the student has gained the required skills, knowledge and attitudes needed at a given point towards their programme of learning. Assessment is not another term for evaluation: assessment is of the students whereas evaluation is of the program. Assessment is specific towards student’s achievements and how they can improve. Assessment are internally or externally set. Assessment types There are three types of assessment used in lifelong learning sector depending upon the subject and the requirements. They are Initial Assessment, Formative Assessment and Summative Assessment. Initial Assessment This is the formal way of ascertaining student’s prior skills and knowledge of the subject to be taken and whether they have any specific needs. Initial assessments will help to identify any particular aspects which may otherwise go unnoticed and also ensuring equality and diversity are met. Initial assessment will give information regarding about students, for example, any specific assessment requirements or needs they may have, their learning style or any further training and support their need. ...
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...“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.” ― Plato, Apology tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom 23 people liked it like “Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many tim Apology: Top Ten Quotes Top Ten Quotes | 1) "I am very conscious that I am not wise at all," (Socrates)2) "in my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable." (Socrates)3) "Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly," (Socrates)4) "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man." (Socrates)5) "To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know." (Socrates)6) "I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding." (Socrates)7)...
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...Why do colleges rely heavily on the S.A.T & A.C.T. scores? The SAT is essentially a reasoning test used to evaluate potential college students in an unbiased way. The SAT, unlike high school academic tests, is not a place to demonstrate accumulated knowledge, and high school alone does not prepare a student for a good score on the SAT. The SAT is neither an IQ test nor a measure of academic potential. Higher scores on the SAT significantly increase a student’s college options, learning about and preparing to take the SAT is an extremely important part of the college process. Some students have a high g.p.a. but can be bad test takers regardless if they study or not. We all know that many college admissions offices imbue SAT and ACT scores with importance. At schools that are deluged with tens of thousands of applications, numbers matter, so these scores can play an outsized role in admission decisions. That means these scores can affect where individual students get to go to school. Through my High School experience, teachers told me the SAT would determine a lot of my potential in life. Having been told this, I still feel the ways that it has affected me, and I still remember all of the years it took to undo the feeling of having a test define the rest of your life. Having to apply for fee waivers and the worry related to not scoring "high enough." because of this experience, I didn’t apply to the schools I didn’t think would accept me (based on my grade), and I didn’t...
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