Essays on Student Performance

Introduction

Technological advance has turned out to be an extremely affluent factor in lifestyle changes worldwide. Many technological inventions, innovations and devices are now an integral part of people’s lives, as their functionality contributes to greater convenience and comfort. Models and means of communication have been affected greatly by technologies, too: email, internet, social networking, and cellphones produce influence the way people communicate to the considerable extent. Cellphones have become a norm for modern social life with their convenience, accessibility and an immense array of opportunities available. Moreover, the cellphone culture affects not only adults but also children and ...

Proposal Recommendation

Executive Summary Over the last decade, our school district has done an excellent job in keeping up with the latest in all of technological trends, accelerating the knowledge and computer skills of our students. Such knowledge and computer skills have afforded many of our schools with high rankings, as is compared to our closest counterparts. We have been known to set a trend that is not always the most popular. Yet in spite of such lack of popularity, we are able to account in a compensatory manner. For example, our choices have always tended to prove to be the ...

Introduction

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

Should Teacher Pay be based on Student Performance?

In order to implement any pay system and merit-based pay in the companies it is essential that these organizaions define their terms and goals as well as clearly outline the pupose of the programs that ar being implemented. Educational field is not an exception (Gratz, 2009) and many organizations are looking for effectibv ways to implement performance pay. But what Performance Pay actually mean and how shoud it be defined and measured? It is critical to understad that perfomance-based compenation is a way to reward employees and demonstrates areas for improvement. This only works in the environment, which offers ...

Background

The IELTS test is one of the most significant single measures of student ESL skills, as it relates to class placement, program acceptance and more. As such, I feel that it is imperative that these tests accurately measure skill and predict performance. Members of the educational community should be concerned with this question, because it directly impacts international enrollment and student success, as well as graduation rates, and program acceptance. The findings derived from the study could be used to improve program criteria, or testing approach in order to increase accuracy of placement, and improve student performance, among non-native ...

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Executive Summary The current research evaluates the option of online education in the community colleges. It is believed that the online programs may benefit the students and the educational facilities in terms of cost-efficiency and effectiveness. The main goal of the research is to reveal if online courses in community colleges have the potential to reduce costs for education and become an effective substitute for the conventional programs. In order to reach the goals, the study implemented a qualitative research design by using literature review as the tool for collecting the data, where the analytical and deductive methods served ...

Introduction

Throughout the nation, the use of teacher evaluations has become increasingly popular. Since educators are partially responsible for the development of younger generations, teacher evaluations were created in order to measure a teacher’s performance. After the creation of teacher evaluations, there has been members of the educational realm that have disagreed with it. While some believe that formative feedback is the best way to analyze a teacher’s performance, others believe that it is unfair to give a teacher evaluation based on their student’s performance. This is due to the fact that teachers do not have control ...

Conflicting Empirical Evidence and Potential Costs and Benefits in Recommendation Making

Education is one of the areas that have received attention from policymakers, practitioners, and government. The much attention that is put on the education sector is purely a connection between teaching quality and student achievement. Developing, maintaining and sustaining teacher effectiveness is always the role of the government, and this can be done in a several ways. The most popular policy that is taking center stage in the education sector is the provision of incentives for teachers with a view of increasing students’ performance in the learning centers (Behrstock-Sherratt, 2013). The incentives are majorly informed of finance as the ...

Introduction

The research problem of a study, significantly, affects the direction and the research approach taken by the researcher to accomplish his or her aims and objectives. Hence, this part of the research must be well understood. In this essay, an analysis of a research focusing on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) was conducted. The particular focus of the analysis is on the research problem of the study.

Justification for studying the research problem

Perhaps, one of the strengths of the research is its success in explaining why the research problem is relevant to be addressed in the study. The justification that is given is ...

Living in an age where technology governs humans in almost every aspect of life, concern over the gap in internet usage in relation to economic and racial differences have consumed policymakers. This is merely because of the conspicuous digital divide where despite the universal benefit resulting from advancement in technology, there are several sectors that are still at a distance from this blessing. One such example is the public schools which is a place reflecting equality, learning and education without disparity on the basis of sex, race and status. In this regard, in order to serve every student, the government started ...

Standard Based Assessment

Standard based assessment is one of the new trends of modern education where students’ performance is assessed based on the preset standards rather than assessing student performance with that of other students. Standard based assessment is part of the standard based assessment movement which advocates for the establishment and adoption of this form of assessment. The movement also advocates for linking assessment with the curriculum and it also incorporates other forms of assessment. The standard based assessment pushes for a standard based education where each student’s performance is constantly monitored and evaluated to come up with various ways ...

Introduction

It is not surprising to know that girls are better students than boys. From common knowledge, this is now a statistically proved claim in most parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. There have been numerous studies undertaken in the past few decades that have focused on this question, and nearly all the results point to the same conclusion: as far as school education is concerned, girls outperform (always have) boys. The aim of this paper is to analyze some of these studies, their methodologies, and the corresponding results, from the perspective of theories in education. Though the ...

Introduction:

- The impact of medication/dosage calculation

Position: Nursing faculty improves student performance with medication/dosage calculation

Body: Relevant information - importance of medication and dosage calculation - types of calculations - A clear connection between nursing faculty and medication/ dosage calculation

Conclusion

- Summary - Recommendation based on the reviewed literature.

References

The sources used included at the end of this paper Introduction Dosage calculation is the computation of the amount of medication to be administered in a required dose, strength and unit volume. Calculations are significant sources of medication errors (Cowan, 2009). The patient safety depends on the practitioner ability to calculate dosage accurately and ...

Introduction

In this paper, I am going to show the effect of school quality on price of housing in the metropolitan area. In the next paragraph, I will conduct a literature review on the various factors that influence the choice of schools by parents and the value of the residential property. In the next section, I shall discuss hedonistic pricing model that can generate effects of school quality on house prices. I will analyze the data collected, explain the method of data collection and discuss the results obtained in the study. The last section is the conclusion of the study. ...

Introduction

The rate of academic performance is influenced by various factors surrounding the student one of them being their socioeconomic status. According to a series of research studies conducted on the factors affecting the students’ performance status, the social and economic status was ranked as the highest contributor to low performance. Other factors such as peer pressure, school size, student role performance, as well as the relationship between the teachers and the student, also influence the student performance score. As a result of supporting the students with low social and economic status, the federal government usually provides funding that is used for ...

Discussion

The aim of the current study was to describe the specific motivation strategies and techniques teachers of the basic and advanced Chinese class use to motivate and engage their students. Through approximately seven hours of classroom observation and conducting interviews with the teachers, three themes stood out in the results. The three themes include: focus on the positive through positive motivation (praise and good attitude), activity-based class through songs, dances and games, and lastly the use of rewards. Activity based class was also consistently seen in both classes. The teachers employed activities such as games, songs and dances ...

This study attempts to show the close connection between the quality of schools and residential property values in the metropolitan area. In as much as the quality of education has been integrated into pricing models of residential property, other factors such as the close proximity to each school where the house is zoned and certain neighborhood characteristics have been found to have an impact on property house values. The closer proximity to schools has a positive value to the house prices while an increase in the distance has a negative impact. The quality of education at all levels (elementary and high ...

Introduction

Recent years have seen increased focus by the government and other stakeholders on the outcomes of education. The government in conjunction with education policy makers has initiated a vast range of reforms that are meant to increase the outcomes of education. Some of these reforms are related to curricula, instruction design among other factors. However, there is one important lesson that has been observed within the education circles and this is that teachers have a very huge effect on a student’s education outcome. Effective teachers have an enrichment effect on the lives of students not only on their careers but also ...

Part I: Group Development

The case ‘building a coalition’ provides us with an interesting perspective of group dynamics, effective team performance, organizational culture and integrative bargaining. The case deals with the formation of an after school program for improving the condition of the public school system in Washington D.C. Schools at Washington D.C. face challenges pertaining to truancy, low student performance and crime. Owing to these factors, the teaching staffs at these schools are easily de-motivated, and this has resulted in high staff turnovers rates. The new after school program aims to deal with these challenges. The after school program would be developed by ...

Introduction

The education system in America has over the years been faced with a recurrent and never ending problem that has compromised the quality of education and subsequently impact ted negatively on the future of the young generation. Teacher turnover is a problem that has remained persistent yet too little has been done to curb the ever rising rates of attrition. Teacher attrition or turnover is the tendency to resign from all duties within the education sector and pursue other sectors of the economy due to reasons other than retirement or health issues (Wushishi, 2013). The elementary education forms the foundation upon ...

Purpose

The purpose of this entry plan is a blueprint for change in the Collaborative and Coaching Leaning (CCL) program in the district. As the appointed representative of the superintendent in this field, this plan serves to mark the relationship between the superintendent and the BOE in relation to the CCL program. The plan serves mainly to instigate change during the first year of its operation, while also providing the guidelines on the follow up steps to be implemented in the second and the third years.

Essential goals of the program

1. Designing a coaching program where a teacher is able to work with a literary coach 2. ...

Introduction

This current projects deals with the budgeting of Norristown Area High School (NAHS). The Norristown high school was established in the year 1870 in the Borough of Norristown and in the year 1972, this school relocated to West Norrition Township. In recent year, the total population of this school was 1900 students in grades ninth to twelfth. This high school utilizes a modified block schedule which offers all core courses in a college prep and weighted honors format. This school has entered into a partnership with Montgomery County Community College which offers a dual enrolment in a number of courses. NAHS has a full ...

Article Review: Values Are Not Just Goals

Article Review: Values Are Not Just Goals

In their article Values are not just goals: Online ACT-based values training adds to goal setting in improving undergraduate college student performance, Chase et al (2013) carry out an empirical analysis of the impacts of personal value exploration and goal setting on academic performance. Relying on the latest research and studies, Chase et al (2013) explain findings of the research in relation to the existing literature in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in a contextual behavioral science tradition. The research on which Chase et al (2013) rely on is characterized by a multiplicity of ...

ARTICLE REVIEW AND SUMMARY

Article Review And Summary The research paper entitled What Students Think When Teachers Get Upset: Fundamental Attribution Error and Student-Generated Reasons for Teacher Anger, was written by Mary B. McPherson and Stacy L. Young. This paper discusses what students thought or felt when their teachers would get angry. The researchers discussed two different types of anger, one was passive-aggressive and the other was assertive. The paper also identifies different reasons for the anger. There were reasons including student misbehavior or lack of participation, and there were other more internal reasons that involved the personal life or feelings of ...

Introduction

Comparison/similarities between act 82 and tenure law act Contrast/differences act 82 and tenure law act Conclusion Introduction Both act 82 and tenure law act are legislations regulating teachers’ behavior on the job as it relates to delivery of safe/ethical practices. Act 82 is the more recent law embodying an effective teacher system of 2012 to be implemented in the 2014 - 2015 school year. There are four components of the act encompassing observation/evidence accounting for 50% of features entailed in the compliance process; elective data 20%; teacher specific data 15% and building level data also ...

Introduction

In the past three years, this institution has recorded fair student performance in both Mathematics and Reading Skills in grade 8. Though the state of the performance cannot be termed as alarming, it can still not be termed as pleasing. This is because the performance of the last two batches of grade 8 students has tended to remain more stagnant. Mathematics and Reading Skills form the core courses for students who wish to pursue science and technical courses in the future. This has been more evident in the Group summary analysis as shown below;

Scale Scores and Performance Levels Comparative Bar Graph for the Years 2011/1012 in Mathematics and Reading Skills

It has been noticed that ...

Information Systems and E-Services at the State/Province Level

The use of technology in the field of education has increased in recent years as it has in the field of business (McIntosh, 2013). Today, there are many types of information systems, e-services, or other technology tools that can be used to promote and enhance instruction and learning. Among these are the corporate learning management systems (LMS); learning content management systems (LCMS); course authoring tools; virtual classrooms; generic elearning software; and education learning management systems (ELMS) (McIntosh, 2013). Moreover, Web 2.0 technology, wikis, blogs, and other types of educational software may also be used in the education setting. ...

The search for a relationship between academic performance and class size has and academic performance has been a long and a perplexing one for different academics throughout the globe. Although several factors have been proposed by different scholars for the cause of poor performance, few have been conducted to find out the correlation between good academic achievement and class size. Different studies have therefore been initiated to examine this relationship for students in several selected institutions of learning including elementary, secondary and even tertiary education. These studies have been done to support the general view that smaller classes are more preferred to ...

Research paper on how students’ experience of higher education enhanced or limited by their skills and knowledge in Information and Communications Technology

Abstract

This research aims at ascertaining how information communication technology impacts university and college students’ skills and knowledge with regard to academics. A sample size of 50 students was selected. The use of ICT in the institutions of higher learning has had varying impacts, with the students being the main users of this technology. The sample of randomly 50 randomly selected students was subjected to interviews and was also requested to fill in the questionnaire. Randomness eliminates subjective ...

Abstract

Breakfast is often recommended as an integral part of a healthy diet. In most cases, breakfast healthiness accrues from micronutrient intakes. Because of breakfast supremacy in the regular lives, most researches have been conducted to explore the relevance of breakfast and cognitive ability on young children. In this research proposal, I document a planned proposal that seeks to explore the connection between breakfast and children’s cognitive ability. I intend to make use of already performed experiments to make case of the relevant of a good breakfast for steadfast academic performance.

Literature Review for Breakfast and Performance

Education is an important factor in the development of a society. Evidently, ...

Research Assignment #3 – Annotated BibliographyAllen, M., Mabry, E., Mattrey, M., Bourhis, J., Titsworth, S., & Burrell, N. “Evaluating the effectiveness of distance learning: a comparison using meta-analysis.” Journal of Communication 20 (2004): 402-422. Allen et al. (2004) performs a meta-analysis of several studies and literature to evaluate how students perform in online classes as opposed to traditional ones. According to their results, distance education provides better student performance than traditional students in exams. While the effect was heterogenous, and therefore not strictly comparable in experience between traditional and online education, there is nothing in this study to state that ...

There are many reasons why I am seeking a Master of Arts degree at Regis University. Having already graduated with my Bachelor’s Degree in both Communication and Political Science (double major), I feel that I am up to the challenge of continuing my education and furthering my knowledge of communication. While my Bachelor’s Degree provides me with a great base of knowledge from which to work, there are skills and competencies that the Master’s program can provide me that I can take with me into my potential career. My long term goal is to gain a position in management ...

Online education has become famous as an education tool in the recent past. This has been facilitated by the increased ease of access to the internet at affordable prices. Online education is mostly used in higher education where students receive study material from institutions of higher learning through e-email. Higher education is a crucial part of any economy since it helps to train relevant professionals. Online education has enabled people who cannot attend universities physically to have access to such professional training. Online education has also become popular because it is cheaper than physically attending a university in terms of ...

Why American education is falling

The standards of American education system have been falling year in and year out compared to other industrialized nations. Based on recent results of scholastic aptitude tests, the American student is by far bettered by the Asian and European counterparts respectively. The causes of failure cannot be isolated and analyzed in a single dimension. Things don’t seem to improve as research findings trickle in i.e. a research shows that despite great proportion of gross national product being spent on education; it’s worth noting that the American elementary and secondary school student never ranked above the median when compared with ...

The higher education system is one of the most prevalent and important institutions in the developed world, being the means by which individuals acquire the certification and knowledge necessary to find work and advance their knowledge of the world. The face of education is changing with the advent of the Internet - the availability of constant contact with others and access to incredible amounts of information has led to the advent of online education . Ever since its inception, the goal of online education has been to provide those without the time or money to attend physical universities the chance ...

Analysis and Interpretation of Standardized Data

Background All institutions in the world have the objective of ensuring that students perform well according to the expectations of both the parents and the teachers. However, this is not always achieved since there are times when there are many students who fail their examinations. In all education institutions, it is important to collect data regarding the performance of students. This will help in finding the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the students for the purpose of improving their welfare in the schools. Data analysis in schools is inevitable because all teachers would like to find ...

Online colleges and traditional colleges are two very different learning environments that have a very common purpose and that is to provide its learners an academic degree that would enable them to pursue their future professional careers. Although they share similar end-goals, their significant differences generally creates a different set of boundaries that encompasses a completely different learning experience for the students. The set of advantage and disadvantages that distant learning and traditional classroom settings have defines a straightforward contradiction of characteristics. However, regardless of the advantage and disadvantages those both traditional and online colleges have the measure of the student’s success ...

Fostering patient safety with multiple patients

The Ironside et al article is an article about safety in the nursing occupation. The safety of patients is important in any health facility. This research focused on how using experiences of multiple patient simulations affected the competence levels of nursing students. Apart from simulation, the simulation model also assessed how the students’ tolerance for ambiguity, age and grade point average related to simulation outcomes. The results are evidence to nursing educators on how multiple patient simulations impact on nursing students’ competence. The results also show the need to document student competencies inpatient safety before releasing them to enter ...

In the recent, educational quality has been drastically dropping resulting in sub-standard and half-baked learners. In return, this has led to adverse effects on other sectors of the economy as well. Looking deep into this problem, it carries with it many problems in the future of our world and population in general (Barbara, 2). Comparing the educational quality in the past century and this century, technology has taken an active role in supplementing learning sources. This has made the learners and teachers much comfortable and relaxed to a point that the quality has dropped without notice. One of ...

Should Schools Decrease Class Sizes to Improve Student Outcomes?

Introduction The idea that by reducing class sizes the students will automatically perform better and thus achieve higher grades may seem logical; i.e. that if the student-teacher ratio is lower, then the teacher can spend more time with each individual in the class. Also, that there is less likely to be disruption with a smaller number of students in the same room. It is a topic that has long been discussed, argued, and to some extent has also been tried, and has been the subject of various research studies over a considerable number of years. Much of the research has ...

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Organizational behavior affects learning teams and learning institutions. OB (Organizational behavior) is defined as a discipline focusing on people, teams, and individuals in organizations in a systematic manner. The purpose of the field is in coming up with a better way employees can interact. Several researchers on OB have come up with aspects that have resulted from the field. The aspects can be listed as knowledge sharing, leadership, organizational culture, management style, organizational structure and process, and organizational climate (Aliel et al., 2011; Jinyun et al., 2010; Olsen et al., 2010; & Pudruc & Radic, 2011). In this literature review, the role of OB ...

Abstract

This research comprehensively examines the relationship between academic self-efficacy and perceived stress, and how the two concepts are of effect to the academic performance. A survey instrument was developed to measure the perceived stress and self-efficacy connected to the college related tasks. The study examined 182 students from the Campbelltown and Parramatta campuses of the University of Western Sydney that were involved in the study of the Organizational Behavior. The study involved both males (105) and females (76). Both scales proved to be highly reliable with the correlation being moderately negative. The structural equation models were estimated for the ...