Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills

The processes for addressing skill gaps are to “define the skills and knowledge required to complete a task and then comparing a person’s current level to that requirement” (Thomas, 2009). When gaps have been determined an action plan to fix, the situation is put into play. Skill gaps that require action plans are developed from lack of education and training or as simple as a job change. The first step of mending skill gaps is identifying the business goal. Identifying the business goals…

foster care maintenance and their adoption assistance issues in BSW and MSSW at the School of Social Work. The second goal is to enhance their capacity to work more effectively with CPS. The third goal is to equip the stipend students with knowledge, skills, and professional competency for leadership in all aspects of public child welfare…

In June 2012, I finished my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the University of Texas in Arlington. My BSN provides a comprehensive foundation in learning nursing theories, clinical applications, critical thinking skills, nursing research, leadership and management roles, public and community health care that are essential to be successful in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program. I have been a registered nurse for five years now. Currently, I am working as a staff nurse in the…

compare a student’s intelligence and academic performance, and a schools ability to provide students with a strong academic performance. Even some school districts are against what standardized tests are doing, for example, in 2012, more than 100 Texas school districts passed a resolution claiming that standardized tests are “strangling” public schools. School districts came together passing a resolution arguing that standardized…

generally considered good at problem-solving. Additionally, people are concerned about what else chess can bring to us. Those are the reasons why this issue is of vital importance. Depending on some researches, many social scientists concentrate on math skills instead of humane qualities which includes social contact and creative thinking. This essay will show the arguments that people can learn math-problem-solving and humane qualities from chess at the same time. The ability of dealing with…

and talk differently. Intercultural education for the educators to have certain skills to communicate with the a globalizing classroom is very essential in raising and improving the community as a whole, and it eventually can resolve many implications that both the educators and the students face on daily basis. Why are there implications between unskilled educators and students from a different culture?…

identifying goals and developing an understanding on how they are to be attained by both managers and employees. Performance management is important in organizations as it brings an aspect of accountability to employees, therefore, improving their skills in the long run (Heinrich, 2004). The Office of Disability Employment Policy, ODEP, (2009) defines employee assistance programs as programs set up in workplaces to assist workers identify and resolve concerns that affect their work performance…

The smarter balanced tests are aligned with Common Core, spell out the skills and knowledge students should have at every grade level, and it also emphasizes critical thinking and problem solving skills rather than memorization, asking students to explain how they arrived at their answers rather than simply regurgitating the facts and figures,”…

There are several factors that can cause a student to have a lack of prior knowledge upon entering a new school system. In this case, the data analysis indicated that there were differences between the curriculum of Texas and Puerto Rico. As illustrated by the example presented in the previous chapter some of the math topics in the Texas curriculum were introduced at a different time in Puerto Rico. In addition, the complexity of the students’ objectives varied. Curriculum around the world can…

I struggled in elementary and secondary school and by the time I got to high school, I thought I just wasn’t smart. I left my high school of 150 graduates and went to Texas Tech armed with a lack of confidence. I found myself on scholastic probation for two semesters and my third semester was a disaster. I got married, had two children and decided I was going back to college determined to be successful. It was during those years, I discovered I didn’t receive or retain information the way it…