Consistency

This is a cultural standard that obligates us to return favors, gifts, invitations, and the like. Reciprocity allows for the free flow of business, the division of labor, and the exchange of services. 2. Commitment and Consistency:The value of consistency is, quite simply, our “nearly obsessive desire to be (and to appear) consistent with what we have already done. Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave…

patient outcome also (Bedrosian 2015). Instrument including reliability and validity The reliability and validity of the survey used these instruments, for frequency occurring item analysis, confirmatory principal components analysis and internal consistency reliability using Cronbach’s alpha was used. This article was compiled by scholarly…

For my philosophy of education I included the quote from Anatole France, a French novelist and Nobel Prize winner in writing where he declared “nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” Encouragement is, and will continue to be, the central theme in teaching approach. To summarize my philosophy of education it boils down to three things: 1) creating a positive learning environment, 2) create lessons plans that incorporate active learning, and 3) be open to learning from the students. Our…

This write-up focusses on three concepts of sound assessment practice namely reliability, feasibility and educational impact. Reliability Reliability refers to the ‘reproducibility’, ‘repeatability’ or ‘consistency’ of the scores obtained from an assessment (Memon et al, 2010; van der Vleuten et al, 2005). Reliability is generally expressed as a coefficient ranging from 0 (no reliability) to 1 (perfect reliability). Since it is difficult to achieve perfect reliability in any assessment, a…

Ever since I was a young girl, I have always lived a swift and buoyant type of lifestyle. According to my Mother, I began walking by eight months, which is very early. As I grew, I became increasingly social with anybody that could speak and hold a conversation. I contemplated a lot and asked a lot of questions, unafraid of looking naive or senseless. My elementary and middle school teachers would send home report cards with a special note addressing me as a “social butterfly”, because I would…

In the wake of the uncertainty and brutality of the First World War, the societal attitudes of Americans evolved away from the conservative mores of previous decades. As the economy soared, the populous became enamored with wealth, vitality, and lavish lifestyles. Characterized by flappers, radio and cinema, Prohibition, bathtub gin, the speakeasy, and organized crime, America during the 1920’s, became known as the “Roaring Twenties”. All this makes up the cultural backdrop and setting for the…

the aliens did not come, this created cognitive dissonance. They believed that aliens were coming; aliens did not show up. There are five ways to bring back cognitive consistency: changing one of the ideas, adding to the idea, changing a behavior, trivialization or obtaining social support. In our example to bring back consistency the seekers used two. They were told that the aliens made a new plan. Since they were…

Special effects makeup has countless techniques. These different techniques present and portray different qualities. Knowing which technique to use in different situations can make all the difference in constructing movies, films, or just creating a costume or prop piece in the interest of entertainment. Wax is an easy and decently effective method of special effects makeup. You can create a homemade wax, or buy professionally made wax. Homemade wax can be achieved by combining petroleum…

the same story. That story is that the greased bullets are the cause for the Sepoy Rebellion. Furthermore, there is a consistency between documents A and C. They both state the same thing, that the bullets have animal fat on them. While the other documents written by people who support the fact that there is no animal fat on the bullets. These statements made have no consistency between them. Making these ‘facts’ against the use of animal fat no on the bullets, not to be true. Each reason…

WHAT CUSTOMERS LOOK FOR! The Magi was the name given to three kings, also referred to as the "three wise men" who visited the infant Jesus and brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. It is folklore that they had a great knowledge of stars and people all over the world admired them as masters of astrology. All these three had great spiritual and symbolic value. It is said that the gold was a symbol of kingship, the frankincense was a symbol of spiritual excellence and the myrrh was…