Numeracy

Punishment and Rehabilitation When sentencing an offender, what are the different factors that a judge should take into consideration? The final judgement passed on to perpetrators of crime is known as a sentence. Criminologists would define sentences as; ‘the handing down to convicted defendants of specified penalties, such as incarceration or probation’. In, England and Wales it is the duty of criminal justice to punish those who take part in acts that the Law does not approve of. This essay…

PART B: EXPLANATORY NOTES Assessment Summary Besides having good grammar, the narrative analysis revealed several indications that Oliver’s performance was below age-expectations in terms of his surface structure, cohesion and overall organization. Firstly, his surface structure was not age appropriate and lacking in certain aspects. Children age 4 or 5 generally achieve complexity in more than 20% of their utterances (Paul, 1981). With 26% of his narrative being complex sentences, it indicated…

close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The 7 targets of this report include, closing the gap in child mortality, life expectancy, increasing childhood education enrolment, closing the gap in school attendance, reading and numeracy for indigenous students, year 12 attainment and employment (Commonweath of Australia, 2017). The long-term priorities of education, employment, health and wellbeing and safety are constantly being worked on. These priorities need the…

conclusion. Being highly politically knowledgeable increases partisanship. My interest in this topic and political investment may actually prevent me from concluding the truthful answer. One study on motivated reasoning found that participants with high numeracy (ability to work with numbers and problem solve) were better at solving number problems, but only when the results were inline with their political beliefs (Kahan, Peters, Dawson, & Slovic, 2013). This may be why I found this task so…

Question 1 Answer: • Day Nurseries: Frequently established in place of work and managed by companies or charitable groups supplying supervision and learning events for children from 0 – 5 to five. • Nursery Schools: They are frequently connected to a primary school. They provide early learning and day-care for children between 3 -5. • Childminders: They are allowed by law to care for a maximum of 6 children below the age of 8, even though a maximum of 3 of the children are allowed to be…

Nonetheless, it was not until the first Code of Practice for SEN in 1994, that much notice was taken of trying to meet the needs of the much wider group of pupils who had always been in mainstream schools, but whose needs had not been systematically addressed (Tutt, 2007). This coincided with the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), which drew together a range of countries to agree and sign commitment to principles of inclusion, ensuring that all children are enrolled in ‘regular schools’ as a…

Part B Diagnostic Assessment During the diagnostic assessment which focused on grade three student, Boris’s comprehension of number placement and value, Boris did well in most areas, with minimal exceptions. Boris took a great deal of time, when requested to partition the double digit the number. Though they progressed to partitioning the larger numbers in a standard and acceptable non-standard manner, they answered the two digit partitioning question with various multiplication equations.…

Question 1 (a) Table 1 SWOT analysis for the Mapco the manufacturer of exceptional economic foodstuff using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and human resource management, accounting and finance, marketing functions. Looking at Table 1 it is clear that the main part of the business that needs to be strengthened first and foremost is Human Resource Management. Currently the company is a “one man band” consisting only of Mr.Rashid. He mentions in the report that he is…

Intelligence, according to British psychologist Charles Spearman, is general cognitive ability that could be measured and numerically expressed. There has been a presentable amount of research done to prove the relationship between one’s intelligence and how it affects their workplace achievements as well as academic achievements. Most recent findings suggest that emotionally intelligent people perform better in their workplace than their counterparts (Law, et al., 2004), but this is not a…

learner has rushed or guessed part the assessment then the results would not be true reflection of the learners ability. BKSB is one of these online skills providers, used by many colleges. BKSB cover learner’s initial skills testing in literacy, numeracy and ICT, as well as diagnostic. However it can be argued that whilst convenient, for example, instant results and no marking by tutors and also identifies the specific subject knowledge and gaps , it can miss special needs problems such as…