Readability

Aimsweb Assessment Summary Aimsweb was started by Pearson as a place to store DIBELS data and developed into something more over time. Now it is used as a curriculum based measurement tool for universal screening, progress monitoring, and data collection that aids RtI. The system measures students’ math and reading skill sets as well as provides a subjective way to score students’ writing. It can be used for children K-12 as a way to identify those at risk for academic failure and to monitor…

Also, I read and comprehended each paragraph of the drafts and reflected on how to improve its overall relevance and conciseness. The quality of the draft significantly improved from the first draft to the revised drafts and also enhances the readability of the…

texts that are rooted in aesthetic applications of language is one of de Man’s primary arguments for why the post-1960s theories are more radical and garnered more resistance. These linguistic considerations include grammar, semantics, context, readability, and tropological phrases. It is through his exploration of language that de Man reaches the conclusion that “the resistance to theory is in fact a resistance to reading” (de Man 343). In this context, de Man more specifically means reading…

social implications and applications that were so well presented in Ruth Cowan’s book. The early history of genetics was very well written and described in greater detail and completeness than in other books I read, but this came at the cost of readability that would turn off many non-science oriented readers. The crescendo leading to the application genetic information to personalized medicine falls short, and becomes a dry description of a few examples of statistically challenged genome-wide…

In “Founding Brothers,” Joseph Ellis arranges the seven chapters to point out the posterity and friendship the Founding Fathers had to create or hold onto in order to help develop what we now call our home, the United States of America. The Founding Fathers realized and knew that with great collaboration between both their foes and friends, the nation they were creating had great potential. George Washington was a great example as shown in Ellis’s book. As “George Washington wrote, ‘They are,…

Martinez, J., Tannock, R., Manassis, K. (2015). The teacher’s role in the assessment of selective mutism and anxiety disorders. Canadian Journal of School Psychology 30 (2) pp 83-101. Selective Mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder usually discovered at the time a child first enters kindergarten and distinguished by the child’s failure to speak in social situations, to peers, teachers, and other individuals. However, usually, there is no sign of the disorder when the child is at home where he or…

online. For example: blue and red, or blue and yellow might look good on clothes, but not on websites. Colors such as these, and other troublesome colors, causes eye fatigue straining the viewer 's eye easily. Light colored fonts also hinder readability, especially when it is on a white background. It can be easily solved by pairing it with a dark background. Also consider that colors are element of design, so using too much or strong hues can congest your webpage. It is heavy in the eye and…

System identification is a branch of systems theory that characterizes behavior of a system through its interactions with the environment described as inputs and outputs. The relationship between the input and the output can be quantitatively described in form of a mathematical model. This description could be outlined through a parametric model which uses a group of parameters usually incorporated in a few differential equations governing the physics of the system or a non-parametric model…

Samuel Coleridge used figurative language and unorthodox verse structure to describe the tragic, lesson-filled past of a sailor and portray literary elements of Romanticism and its ideals. By using a non-traditional approach to verse structure, it shows Coleridge's choice to not compromise the meaning and thought process of each stanza by following a set pattern. This demonstrates the versatility and story-like dynamic of the poem making it all the more captivating to the reader. Through his use…

People are constantly trying to define what happiness is and if you are happy or not, but have you ever wondered where it is? In Eric Weiners humorous travel memoir, The Geography of Bliss (335 pages),he travels to several countries, including The Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India, and America, in search for where one can find true contentment. In every location, he observes several different ways those countries have become some of the…