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Assessment is a valuable tool to measure students learning and achievement. It is an essential element for teacher to reflect on what and how they teach. To assess students is to collect evidence of their learning. Teachers use the information to modify their lesson plans and adjust their instructional methods; students need feedback on their performance to concentrate on their vulnerable areas. Assessment is necessary for parents to reinforce their children strength and assist them where extra attention is required. The data collected will inform school

The goal of educational assessment is to record, evaluate and enable improved student learning. The monitoring of student work, through developing understanding of key subject concepts and their achievement of syllabus objectives requires comparison against outcomes and standards. These outcomes and standards help define the criteria which is considered essential and relevant for assessment. Through correct implementation, integration, and reliability and validity, all forms of assessment should enable improved student learning when teaching is targeted towards syllabus outcomes, objectives and through highlighting gaps in student knowledge.

Melissa Hudson, a former Murray State University student, graduated from the BSW program in December 2001. Hudson is a proud wife and mother of her four year old daughter. Meanwhile, Hudson starts out talking about beginning her career in February 2002, at a reginal health Center. She worked with children who had behavioral disorders. However, in 2005, Hudson started a new career in Hopkinsville KY, Indian Hills Elementary School as a Coordinator, for family Recourse Center. Throughout the presentation, Hudson expresses social issues, programs, and stresses on how each are important for families and children to maintain. Listening to Hudson talk about her career and what she does every day was very inspiring. She loves what she does and I could

Recently, whenever I hear current teachers discussing about assessing students, ‘Formative Assessment’ is sure to be highlighted. Nowadays this method (formative assessment) is becoming popular among schools and is being applied widely in schools including my own school. Loughland and Kilpatrick (2015) identified in the few past decades, formative assessment has turned out to be the main goal for teachers and educational systems. On the foundation of Loughland and Kilpatrick (2015) findings and from my experience in the field of teaching, I found out nowadays teachers and school stakeholders strongly feel that formative assessment is the best method to assess in order to enhance students’ learning. For these evident reasons, I am interested in finding

As an alcoholic for 10 years, I couldn’t stay sober by resisting the urge to drink. I tried going to AA meetings, most of what they talked about were drinking alcohol, and because of this kind of talk the first thing I wanted to do after the meeting was to have a drink. I’m not saying AA is not a good place for recovering alcoholics, what I am saying is it didn’t work for me. Instead, at some point, God relieved me of the obsession to drink. When I finally had enough, I cried out to God, and a miracle happened. From that moment on God relieved me of the desire to drink. It no longer exists for me.

“Alcohol dependence” means the person is physically dependent on alcohol. Diagnosis generally requires three or more of these symptoms within a 12-month period:

The Department of Education points to K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education program to address one of the main weaknesses of the Philippine educational system—the congested curriculum. Students are hardpressed to learn in 10 years a curriculum that is actually designed for 12 years in other countries. Hence, Filipino students are not able to achieve comprehension and mastery, particularly of core subjects. With K to 12, students will develop competencies and higher order thinking skills through

Hi Kelly, thanks for sharing your story. I can understand how you feel watching your loved one suffer, especially with Alzheimer’s dementia. Caring for someone who has that disease is a roller coaster ride. They go through outbursts of emotions and it is hard for them because they don’t understand what is going on. Sometimes, they could not control such outbursts that they hit their caregivers. I have a resident in the Alzheimer’s unit, a little woman weighing barely 100 lbs, who can give a punch like a boxer. There was one incident that the LNA was helping her get dressed, she was so sweet and laughing, and the next minute, unexpectedly, hit the LNA on the cheek. The family felt bad or embarrassed but we could not fault the resident. It is

The Feiner Points of Leadership is one of the interesting and application oriented books I have read. I would recommend the book to my friends and colleagues who aspire to be a good leader. This book should be read by all the leaders and managers to be successful. It exemplifies some of the important skills manager or leader should practice at the same time it explains the mistakes one should avoid being a successful and effective leader. Michael Feiner’s experience in PepsiCo, given examples and instances in his tenure makes it easier to understand the facts in detail. These examples also helps retain all the points and laws explained in the book.

Most Filipino families often define education as an investment placed on their children for them to continuously grow and pursue success on their line of interest by achieving higher education. My learning experiences in the Philippines are completely different from my learning experiences here in the United States. In the article entitled Play Deficit, the author states that “Children there spend more time at their studies than US children, and they score higher on standardized international tests” (Gray 6). Indeed, most of the students in the Philippines dedicate their life to learning and gaining more knowledge. High school students have to go to school early. Classes start as early as seven or seven-thirty in the morning until five in the

Assessment enables educators to provide feedback to their learners, this in turn promotes self-evaluation by the learner, as they use the assessment feedback to scrutinise and make judgements about the quality of their work (Spiller, 2009:6 & 7).

In selection “Sick out of Luck, The Uninsured in America” by Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle it discusses the many uninsured people in our society and the extreme measures they go to in order to receive health insurance and also the difficulties of not having health care. In this selection the author’s don’t really have an argument but in the beginning of the selection they talk about the interviews they have had with uninsured Americans and how these interviews demonstrate that working and taking jobs solely for health care is leading to fundamental changes in the nature of society. Basically they are saying that in today’s society having a job isn’t a stable way of having

Before I began reading this book, I took a moment to think about the title: The Short Bus a Journey beyond Normal and what this book might entail. The term short bus brought back memories to me as a kid, people who were not smart enough to ride the long bus; or people who attended a special school because they were mentally retarded or mentally challenged. I felt connected to some of the personal stories in the text, especially the stories of Brent and Kent. Furthermore, it reminded me of my personal biases I still have toward kids like Ashley.

When studying in the field of Sociology each person is going to approach topics in a different manner. Not everyone is going to have the exact same view on a particular subject. There are however, three major categories in which people might choose to approach topics. The approaches are known as sociological perspectives and are the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives. These perspectives name other ways in which different people choose to analyze a subject, and how they look at a society as a whole.

“No man is an island” --- an almost clichéd saying everyone knows. I can’t completely say I’m an island, I can’t say I’m not either. It usually depends upon the situations raised by life’s unique design. I was brought up by my parents to be a respectful, justice-wise, humble person. But in every person’s lives lies the process of making one’s own personality.