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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...