The Effect of a Character Education Program on Elementary Student Achievement Abstract Educators at the elementary school level are aware of the importance put on the state mandated assessments. As student behavior continues to increase‚ student achievement is affective. Educators search for answers to problems that surround elementary students in the school setting. The incorporation of a character education program may help to improve student achievement. The purpose of
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Risk Aversion‚ Performance Pay‚ and the Principal-Agent Problem Author(s): Joseph G. Haubrich Source: The Journal of Political Economy‚ Vol. 102‚ No. 2 (Apr.‚ 1994)‚ pp. 258-276 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2138661 Accessed: 14/12/2010 04:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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International University or FIU for short. I feel like this college is appropriate for me because many of the amenities available fit my liking. The school has a very large campus and plenty of students to make new friends with‚ and is located in the heart of Florida. Florida’s weather is similar to Arizona’s‚ with the exception of humidity‚ making it feel just like home. There are many extracurricular activities at this college such as sororities and fraternities‚ a radio station‚ student council‚ and
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The Role of Student Personnel in Higher Education: The Development‚ Guidelines‚ and Overview of Student Services Student personnel in higher education play an important role in the overall success of the college and that of each and every student who engages in learning at that institution. The role of the student affairs office is undoubtedly one of the most diligent areas the college or university has. As history teaches us‚ almost all institutions have prided themselves on a strong foundation
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FOUR In Chapters Four and Five of A Room of One ’s Own‚‚ the focus on Women & Fiction shifts to a consideration of women writers‚ both actual writers and ultimately one of the author ’s own creation. The special interest here is one raised earlier in the work: the effect of tradition on women ’s writing. Woolf believes that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently‚ and that each of these differences has had important effects on the development of women ’s
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Pay It Forward (film) Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was directed byMimi Leder and written by Leslie Dixon. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement‚ Helen Hunt as his single mother‚ and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Plot When eleven and a half year old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin
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Case Problem 2 Ethical Behavior of Business students at Bayview University All | Internet | Exam | Collaborated | Cheater | Y | 23 | 16 | 23 | 48 | N | 67 | 74 | 67 | 42 | Total | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | Proportion Y | 25.6% | 17.8% | 25.6% | 53% | Proportion N | 74.4% | 82.2% | 74.4% | 47% | | | | | | | | Male | Internet | Exam | Collaborated | Cheater | Y | 16 | 9 | 13 | 27 | N | 31 | 38 | 34 | 20 | Total | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | Proportion Y | 34.0% | 19.1% | 27.7%
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It was once said that “If the purpose of learning is to score well on a test‚ we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning.” Students should not be required to take standardized tests. They stress out students and teachers‚ take up too much learning time‚ and they have no true purpose. It has been proven that 2.3% of time is used on testing every year for an average middle school. Usually main subjects like math‚ social studies‚ and science have more than one test. Taking only one test for each
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Should Chinese Students Study Abroad? With sustained economic growth in China‚ the option to study abroad has become more affordable for increasing numbers of Chinese families. For example‚ China Daily reported in 2007 that the number of students choosing to study abroad has increased by 11 percent over the last five years till 2007. However some problems occur when choose to study abroad destination‚ whether it is one-semester exchange or full-time engagement. Some of these problems include culture
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Introduction For this book report I chose to read the novel "Pay It Forward" by Catherine Ryan Hyde. I have heard a lot about this book after it first came out‚ and when the movie that was based upon this back came out I decided to read it. The book is fictional‚ however it deals with the grim every day reality of the current North American life. The story happens in a typical rural American town‚ at our time. The main characters are: Trevor‚ a young boy‚ his mother Arlene and his handicap teacher
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