Psychometrics

CLIMATE CHANGE: HOPE’S ROLE IN PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS As climate change becomes an increasingly recognized serious issue, the need for environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) for young people and in schools is also becoming increasingly relevant. Traditional environmental education has aimed to help students better understand causes, impacts, and solutions to environmental issues and to inspire critical thinking around ethical issues, conflicts, and…

Standardized Testing: Harmful or Helpful? The one part of most every public school in America that shapes the way education is viewed and approached: standardized testing. Standardized testing is a controversial part of America’s system of education that greatly affects students and teachers. The way that teachers teach and students learn are decided by standardized tests; schools let standardized tests change their schedules, classes, and even methods of teaching. The idea of a test that keeps…

The values for the Axial length and Keratometry obtained through the various methods as mentioned above should be consistent so as to rule out sources of error. The need to repeat these measurements can be obtained based upon the HOLLADAY CRITERIA which states: Repeat Km if: Km47D for either eye Difference between the two eyes >1 D Corneal cylinder doesnot correlate well with the refractive cylinder Repeat AL if: AL< 22mm AL> 25mm Difference between the two eyes > 0.3 mm Doesnot…

What you perceive as fact is sometimes fictitious. In his article, The True Intrinsic Value of Music Study, Paul Stewart rebukes the claim that music study makes you smarter. On the other hand, he believes that music study is needed regardless of what career path you choose (Stewart). Stewart implies that the correlation between music study and a student 's intelligence and test score is based on the student 's self-will and positive parental involvement. Stewart believes that music…

GEOG 1004: Introduction to Human Geography Mandatory Assignment: Disruptive Demographics Student Name: _Alyn Wakefield__________ Student Number: _____906111600______ Questions: Q1. In the article, Six Disruptive Demographic Trends: What Census 2010 Will Reveal, James Johnson Jr. and John Kasarda outline a number of ‘disruptive demographic trends’ using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Internal Revenue Service, and other government agencies/sources. Please…

1. Conducting the Job Task Analysis The initial phase in leading a successful test is to do task analysis in identifying the abilities and steps required in each procedure identified with learners ' performance. Task analysis offers a far-reaching search at each part of the learning development handle. It helps to identify performance goals for learners. Additionally, it gives you the ability to build up an efficient training program for the learners. An intensive undertaking analysis…

Measuring human General intelligence seems to be a very difficult task in the sense of defining what to test for and what is considered intelligent. There are two different theories in the progress towards measuring intelligence Generalized intelligence is a narrower definition of intelligence focusing on analytical intelligence. The other theory is multiple intelligence which say that there are multiple types of intelligence that are separate from each other this number is one that is still…

Compare and Contrast Activity Evaluation and assessment are necessary components of education. Assessments and evaluations have some similarities and differences, but both serve an important purpose in the educational process. Both assessments and evaluations involve checking for or observing specific criteria in a student’s performance or learning outcome. They also “require the collection of data and other evidence by observing the performance or by looking at the outcome or product” (Baehr).…

My Educational Experience as a Student John Holt, the author of an essay “School is Bad for Children” insists that traditional educational style does not provide children an ideal environment to learn, for it oppresses children’s subconscious intellectual curiosity by making them sit quietly in a classroom all day long. He made some suggestions in order to improve it; he asserts abolishing compulsory education and the fixed required curriculum, giving children an opportunity to learn about the…

Trust me, I know stuff: A summary of Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff explores the idea that the educational system fails to recognize street smarts as a valid form of intellect. In particular, Graff suggests that schools and educators are at fault for overlooking street smarts because of the assumption that such intellect is invalid and of no use to academic learning. Although some people believe that being knowledgeable about sports,…