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Which specific CSTP element will drive your Fostering Equity Through Social and Emotional Learning focus? List the specific standard element. For driving my “Enhancing Joy in Teaching and Learning” focus the specific CSTP element and specific standard element that I will use is Standard 1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning under the specific standard element of 1.1 Using knowledge of students to engage List your current developmental level of your chosen CSTP. Level 4…

This research focuses on the use of self-assessment strategies and investigates the question, “Can Student Self-Assessment Strategies Create Higher Achievement Gains?” Introduction In order to answer the first question, What is the effect of self-assessment/progress monitoring strategies on student achievement based upon end-of unit assessments?, a pre-test, post-test, and formative assessment data were collected from sixty sixth grade science students over an eight week period. To answer…

Each Unit is composed by two lessons and each Lesson is formed by General Lesson Objective and Enabling Objectives. The design of the Units are made in an escalated form starting with the familiarization of the learner will ethical concepts related to the field of medicine, and later on progressing through the units to more complicated subjects, such as Tort Law, Confidentiality, Abortion, Cloning. A challenging portion into any educational experience is to select a method of assessment that…

Formative Assessment Using Technology in the Math Classroom Monique Chatman University of St. Thomas Research Professor: Sonia Vasan, Ph. D. September, 2012 Chapter 1 Introduction Today’s school system is in transition. Some of the changes are due to economic pressures and a need for graduates who can function in society as good citizens (Franklin & Peat, 2002). The demand for students to perform well on standardized tests is another reason for the shift. Technology has been used in…

to the state in order to ensure a peaceful and safe community. (Thomas Hobbes: social contract, 2002) One of those rights transferred is the right to privacy as citizens who complete and are approved for gun ownership must surrender their mental evaluation to the local police department. In order to own a gun, Japanese citizens are willing to offer up their most private medical information to citizens who haven’t taken an oath of secrecy. This is the essence of what Hobbes envisioned with the…

kind of evaluation focuses on assessing whether an intervention affects a set of desirable outcomes. In the evaluation, evaluators would stick to a research method as a basis to guide an evaluation design (Chen, n.d.). This evaluation type ignores contextual factors in different evaluations. Theory-driven evaluation provides a great solution for the issue above. Theory-driven evaluators would facilitate stakeholders to clarify contextual factors and mechanisms of the program. According to these,…

This response paper is over Chapters 6-12, of Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management: an introduction, by Sandra Van Thiel (2014). The following is a comprehensive review of the chapters with added information. Dependent on the type of questions a researcher has and the strategy that will be used. The study can use many methods to gather the information that is needed to answer the questions the researcher has. One method is utilizing experiments as defined by…

Review Questions This paper will attempt to answer questions 1-8 on page 125-126 in Cozby (2012). 1. What is naturalistic observation? How does a researcher collect data when conducting naturalistic observation research? Naturalistic observation which at times called field work or field observation happens when a researcher observes a person or gathering in their natural environment while restricting their own effect on the individual or gathering. Cozby and Bates (2012) highlighted that in…

Research methodology (continue) Working alongside with Conversation analysis, the research selects interview as the second method to generate the data. This paper, for that selection, deals with the second key research instruments, interview. Specifically, it explains and proposes a plan for carrying out interview for the research. The section starts with discussing the advantages of interview instrument. What follows after is a brief overview and discussion around the issue of critical…

Institutional theory is viewed as “ an approach to understanding organizations and management practices as the product of social rather than economic pressures”(Suddaby, 2014, p. 93).The theory can explain complex issues that involve political, economic and practical perspectives (Myrdal, 1978). Based on how institutions are compulsory, accurate and delegated, they could be classified into formal and informal (e.g. relational norms)(Assaad, 1993; Casson, Della Giusta, & Kambhampati, 2010). The…