Medical tests

teacher tells us to start the test. Unfamiliar questions appear on the paper and I began to panic. The world seemed to be moving in circles as my breathing rate increased. This feeling that I felt is something that about 20% of students feel when it comes to standardized tests. And that, is called test anxiety. Standardized tests are the reason that many students like me suffer from this disorder, which leads us to ask ourselves a simple question. Do standardized tests measure students’…

The third largest source of medical insurance in the United States is Medicaid. This program makes for affordable health care for those who are unable to support of afford the costs of it. Medicaid covers millions of low income individuals. Since it is a government funded and based program drug screening should be necessary to stop welfare fraud and unnecessary funding for drug abusers. Medicaid is a government program that is established to help low income individuals with receiving health care…

The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales second edition This short paper has the aim of reviewing the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales second edition (RIAS-2). The first edition of this instrument was introduced about 12 years ago, (Beaujean & McGlaughlin, 2014). The new version of the RIAS will be ready for use from mid-2016, (Reynolds & Kamphaus, n.d). The RIAS-2 is an individual administered psychometric instrument designed to evaluate cognitive ability: general intelligence (g),…

The test is summative because it is given at the end of a complex unit and is intended to evaluate the overall knowledge gained during the last several weeks. The integrative approach to creating this assessment was to fill the requirements of a performance-based…

Let it be because of bad test scores or pure curiosity. The answered really goes down to the person itself. People are all different and they all have different ways of learning and comprehending other things and people. Elizabeth Day the author of the article” Can you really train your brain to be more intelligent?” decide to test it out herself and let her audience in on what she’s learned. Day went on a website called Lumosity, a popular “brain training” website, to test if there was an…

Therefore, a considerable amount of cross-disciplinary research has been conducted to test whether MC items assess the same level of students’ understanding as constructed response questions (Becker & Johnston, 1999; Bible, Simkin, & Kuechler, 2008; Kuechler & Simkin, 2003; Simkin & Kuechler, 2005). In particular, Bible, et al., (2008) looked at tests with both MC and constructive response questions to evaluate students’ understanding of accounting. They recognized…

Context: My husband and I are arguing about his yelling at our children, to go to their rooms and be quiet, when he was trying to complete a test for one of his online classes. Interaction: Last week, my husband was taking a mid-term for one of his classes and our four children were running around the house playing a game of hide and go seek. Normally, when he sits down to work on his school work, he puts on his headphones and listens to music. This helps him concentrate and stay focused in our…

Procedure The subjects were asked to individually fill out the digital surveys online during their PSYC121 labs. The classroom is set up with computers lining the walls on three sides of the room. The Classrooms hold a maximum of 16 people per lab. There were dividers between each of the computers so that subjects could not see each other’s screens and because subjects where facing the walls minimised distraction by other subjects. The study was approved by the Victoria University ethics…

mind, it would always rip through the rope and start running again. It was any normal school day, but the school had to take a huge test called the NWEA. I don't remember how I was feeling during the test, but I guess that doesn't matter. My test scores told it for me. My results on the quiz made something seem REALLY out of place. I had only scored a 2% on the test. Even if I guessed on every question I would’ve done better. This obviously wasn't right, and both my parents and teachers…

Evelyn Lamb in the article “Don’t let math stress you out”, states that the cause of math stress. Lamb supports her statement by defining the cause of math stress, and how it becomes a problem.First Lamb, explains the cause of people stressing out on math is a condition called “math anxiety.” Math anxiety is when the child worries about math problems, that can’t be remember, meaning anxiety is the problem. Why, because anxiety can interfere with the brain, which also interfere with the…