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03 Jul 2009
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The mentorship role in the nursing profession

Thesis - 9 pages - Management

The following discussion will attend to review the different aspects of the mentorship role. The main points of focus will be on identifying learning needs, a discussion of the role model, the environment and how it impacts upon learning, the prevalence of research to support...

18 Jul 2013
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Angles in 2-D Shapes: A progressive overview

Case study - 16 pages - Educational studies

Williams, 2007) and may present difficulties to pupils who have a right brain hemispheric dominance (and so possibly have a predilection to more logical algebra and number topics) who struggle to think in a more creative, left-brained manner (Sperry, 1945 as cited in Cherry, 2011). Although there...

06 Apr 2010
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Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model

Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies

In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide a...

12 Aug 2009
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Student teaching in Philadelphia

Thesis - 5 pages - Educational studies

Before taking a lot of time to sit down and reflect upon my experiences during student teaching in Philadelphia, I thought and realized how much I have learned from my cooperating teacher. I have implemented teaching strategies, planning instruction, the importance of reaching every learner, ways...

29 Jul 2010
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An essay discussing and analyzing issues that influence the nurse's role as a teacher in clinical practice

Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences

This assignment will discuss the nurse's role as an educator in clinical practice and the factors that influence it. It will focus on two scenarios faced by the student nurse and will reflect on the issues raised. This topic has been chosen as the nurse has an interest in mentorship and education...

10 Sep 2008
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A researched investigation on best practices for English Language Learners (ELL)

Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies

ELL students represent a large percentage of the population within schools in the United States. This group of students is actually increasing more than that of English speaking students. (Shore, 2001). This group also has a very high drop out rate, coupled with low ranking grades, academic...

25 Sep 2008
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Reflections and remediation of the past: A survey of literary and philosophical Greece, and its similarities to the electronic age

Essay - 12 pages - Psychology

The topic that I plan to explore in this essay involves looking at the past and present in order to have a better understanding of the future. There are essentially three parts to my research. First, I want to explore what happens to the brain biologically when it must learn something new. In...

05 Feb 2009
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Educating children with special educational needs and disabilities

Essay - 7 pages - Psychology

Special Educational Needs (SEN) has a legal definition: children with SEN have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. These children may need extra or different help from that given to other children of the same age....

05 Mar 2009
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A qualitative study examining children's development of scientific thinking

Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology

This study compares Piaget's (in Oates et al, 2005) and Vygotsky's (ibid.) respective theories on processes involved in children's cognitive development. Specifically, scientific thinking is examined using children's explanations for why things float or sink obtained via adaptation of...

05 Mar 2009
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Employee training

Dissertation - 46 pages - Human resources

Every organization needs to have well trained an experience people to perform the activities that have to be done. If the current or potential job occupants and meet this requirement, training is not important. But when this is not case, it is necessary to raise the skill levels and increase the...

18 Mar 2009
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The relevance of attribution theory to educational psychology

Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology

Attribution theory refers to the “causal explanations that individuals infer for their own behavior, and that of others, in an attempt to interpret their social world” (Burgner and Hewstone, 1993. p.125). As Eslea (1999) notes, “attributional styles have been found to be an...

20 May 2009
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Alternative assessments to standardized testing

Thesis - 5 pages - Educational studies

In today's educational system, standardized testing under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a main part of how the nation assesses our children's performance in school. This form of testing which is mandated under NCLB gives an inaccurate assessment of how well a child is...

16 Jun 2009
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Active character technology based on neural networks Genetic Algorithms and AI

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

A combination of Neural networks genetic algorithms and conventional computing in Multimedia and Gaming industry has never been attempted before. Existing technologies operate on fixed databases and manipulate limited data that is bound by some logical algorithm. Even many of the AI based...

15 Jul 2009
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Drug error in a practice placement

Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies

For this summative assignment using a reflective model of my choice, I am going to critically reflect upon an aspect of my professional development which has been chosen from my professional portfolio. Reflective writing is considered a key component of portfolio assessment because it provides...

10 May 2010
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Rule-extraction from support vector machines through consistency based feature selection approach

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

In this paper, a new approach is proposed to extract rules from the support vector machines through consistency based feature selection. To reduce the computational time and increase the performance of classification model, a two step classification approach is followed. First step includes...

29 Jul 2010
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The purpose of rubrics and spirals

Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies

Today, teachers are now measuring and evaluating the way in which he or she scores his/her students performances. Teachers everywhere is learning to use, make, and follow guidelines in measuring their student's work. It uses to be a thing of the past, but technology has opened many doors...

30 Jul 2010
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Plato and education

Thesis - 2 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Creationism was the prevalent education style used to explain how the Earth came to be and how humans came to be. When the theory of Evolution came into being, teachers began telling students about it. Obviously there was an enormous amount of reluctance to teach this new idea as well as learn...

10 Aug 2010
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Neuro-physiological and evolutionary theories

Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology

The brain is the most important part of the body. With the use of the brain all other limbs and bodily functions receive information about what should be taking place. With all that the brain is responsible for there is still another task that people maintain almost seamlessly. That task is the...

11 Aug 2010
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Adult education program

Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences

Many companies recognize the need for continuous adult education also known as learning and development for employee development. Human capital is one of the key assets in an organization. Development of human capital brings out the best in its people for better business results and...

12 Jul 2013
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My philosophy of education

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Education is a process of giving or receiving systematic instructions throughout school and college life. I believe that education is a personal experience for an individual, who seeks to learn something new. Education changes the lifestyle of children, who enter the class room. The...

23 Aug 2010
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A critique of education strategies

Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences

Only by not imposing barriers in one's learning process can one become truly educated. This fact can be better illustrated through Adam Urbanski's saying, as he once stated that “If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got”. In other words,...

12 Oct 2010
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Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes

Essay - 8 pages - Management

When a company witnesses an important growth or change period, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging their global service and...

24 Dec 2013
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Farsi Language

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

The purpose of writing this essay will be to examine the various varieties of English that exist in Farsi language classrooms and also to determine the type of English language pronunciation that Iranian learners are aiming for and the interference of Farsi language in attaining the desired...

27 Aug 2014
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Reading Strategies

Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies

Language instructors are usually aggravated by the fact that learners do not transfer the strategies they employ when reading in their native language to reading in the language ,they are learning. In its place, they seem to view reading as starting in the beginning and reading word by...

12 Oct 2010
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Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes - published: 12/10/2010

Course material - 8 pages - Management

When a company knows an important growth, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging the global service and functioning. But it is...

19 Nov 2014
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The Impact of Providing Supportive Educational Environment to the Performance of Gifted Children

Case study - 17 pages - Educational studies

All over the globe, the information age has brought immense awareness amidst the social transformation emphasizing nurturing self-sufficiency skills through effective learning for all, eliminating instances of exclusion on the basis of limited proficiency and economically disadvantaged...

21 Nov 2014
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Critical Examination of the Role of the Mentor

Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies

Over the years, the global advancements spreading in the field of medicine have gradually revolutionized the health care delivery spilling a new wave of nursing requirements in the patient units. For that reason, professional progressions for entrants in the nursing field require a program...

07 Dec 2014
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Massive Open Online Courses

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are teaching plans that happen to be internet based giving them the capability of simultaneously handling thousands of students based in different geographical locations globally. The MOOC trend of learning in higher education was introduced during the...

16 Jan 2015
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Education: Impact of internet

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Internet has brought significant change to education particularly in making research much easier. In addition, internet has supported online education and increased the audience relying on the internet for learning particularly higher learning. Teachers have also made use of online...

13 Nov 2007
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Neuronal Plasticity

Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Psychology

Synaptic plasticity is a property of adult as well as developing or young cortex, and reflects how synaptic strength changes with experience. Its relevance to psychiatry is seen in the course of the illnesses psychiatrists treat. Clinical research supports the notion that psychiatric illnesses...