Programme for International Student Assessment

There are several standard tools for project management such as: Gantt chart, PERT chart, logic network, product breakdown structure and work breakdown structure. (Duncan, no date) Besides these, the logical framework approach is also widely used by donors and governments in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of development projects. The function of logical framework is to help the project design, implementation and evaluation. (WEDC) The variations of the logical framework are known as…

It helps health workers to convince funders both local and international governmental and non-governmental to provide them with needed resources. Community diagnosis affrids health workers opportunity to convince policy makers and other decision-makers to provide their community with needed programmes or services. Since there is always slwitage of resources to fund health care services, especially in developing countries, community…

Many students are pressured by teachers worried about their salaries to do well on tests, and the stress is enormous, puking level enormous. If they score badly, students may be placed in special needs classes or kicked out of advanced classes like this eighth grade girl who confronted her school board about the impact of her low scores on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test): “Every year I do good in school, but I get low test scores…

frequent methods to check the knowledge of students. However, some people claim that using standardized tests in education system may have a negative effect on students. Nevertheless, standardized tests also have several positive effects on education as following. As its name suggests, standardized tests create a reliable standard to every student. In general, the purpose of using standardized tests is to measure an academic performance in the subjects that students have learnt.…

provides no educational value outside of a statistical database? Aren't you, the students, sick and tired of taking a test that really has no point towards improving your life skills? Standardized testing only undermines your educational opportunities: by wasting valuable learning time and answering random questions, only so you can earn a point towards educational measurements. As a former high school student, I understand the frustration of the parents upset at their children not…

Today, results in higher education is based on the bell curve, where students compete against each another in a rat race to get to the top of the bell curve in order to score good results. The existence of the bell curve means that students can work very hard and still lose to their peers. This competitive education system is detrimental as it discourages students who does worse than their peers. This causes some to turn into unethical ways to achieve good results and also become more selfish…

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result of how they access that very curriculum. Children will see the curriculum differently to the practitioners that teach it. ‘It is viewed as a landmark development in Scottish education, hailed by its architects as ‘one of the most ambitious programmes of educational change ever undertaken in Scotland’ (Government, Scotland, 2008a, pp8). The Curriculum for Excellence was published in November…

less than 95% of students participated in State assessments (Illinois General Assembly). This came up during the discussion of Bill HB-0306, also known as the opting out bill. From what I have gathered throughout my twelve years in school, standardized tests were made to narrow achievement gaps and help boosts test scores in the U.S. They are supposed to measure your intelligence and show teachers where your strongest and weakest areas are. This year, I was one of the few students who took the…

Cognitive abilities Throughout the PhD, I was able to learn a new suite of analysis skills including multimodel inference, spatio-temporal analysis and working with different statistical programmes. This has been challenging and at times frustrating. However, I know now that the process of learning a new skill is as important as the outcome (such as a written chapter). I am now appreciating effort I put into my own work, rather than judging…