What is assessment and what makes it “good?” Assessment is gathering information to ensure teachers make informed decisions about student progress. Five key components of good assessment are: classroom assessment‚ authenticity‚ formative‚ special needs intervention‚ and benchmarking. These enhance and improve student learning‚ and are outlined below. Good classroom assessment involves ‘of‚ for and as’ of learning. This practice involves teachers using inference and evidence‚ while students
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Western Civilization Essay The first two chapters of western civilization were really interesting. From my understanding‚ the historians mainly relied on documents to paint some type of picture of the past. There were no written records that existed for the prehistory of mankind. Nomads were the earliest form of human like people. They existed in Africa as long as three million years ago. The australopithecines were one of the first nomads to make simple tools. Homo erectus came on the scene
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3. Define the term civilization. Discuss and evaluate the different approaches of your textbook and the lectures to this issue. Support your discussion with specific examples from the early histories of Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ and China. • Civilization: Civilization is the state of condition of persons living and functioning
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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What makes a good life Information about China The People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ it is a country in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country‚ with a population of over 1.35 billion. China is the world’s second-largest country by land area‚ the total area is generally stated as being approximately 9‚600‚000 km2. China have very long history that it is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The Chinese history is a alternating periods of political unity and disunity. As the establishment
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What Makes A Just Society? Throughout history‚ people have been trying to create an improved‚ fair‚ and equal system of justice‚ not only to better society in which one lives‚ but to also find a sense of meaning in what responsibilities people should hold within their civilizations in order to create this just way of living. As early as the Old Testament within the Bible‚ we see examples of how the Hebrews formed their own justice. This can be seen in the in text of the Ten Commandments
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It is still a great mystery how the Mayan civilization disappeared. This complex society reached its zenith around approximately 750 AD. However‚ within the next two hundred years‚ this civilization which was epic in its time collapsed and disappeared leaving minimal traces and even more scanty detail about what could have caused this disappearance. This knowledge gap has led to a lot of debate among scholars over the various possible reasons behind what seems to us to be the abandonment and desertion
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Civilization is destroyed when Piggy’s specs are stolen‚ and when Jack splits away from Ralph and begins to lead a new tribe. It is Jack’s fear that makes him do this. He is afraid of Ralph being more powerful than him‚ and he doesn’t like to be reprimanded by the younger boy. To feel more powerful than Ralph‚ Jack defies him and leaves during a meeting‚ taking his new tribe with him. Golding also demonstrates the crumbling of civilization through symbols like Piggy’s glasses‚ the conch and the war
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“Which is better- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are‚ or to be sensible like Ralph? A great clamor rose among the savages. Piggy shouted.” (180). When Piggy put it this way‚ he made civilization sound boring‚ but it is not. There is structure‚ order and no one is going around killing people. Out of them all‚ Piggy and Ralph still had an inkling of civilization in them‚ unlike the other boys who turned unrecognizable. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about young British boys that
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Factors that Aided Islamic Civilization Civilization (or civilization) is a sometimes controversial term that has been used in several related ways. Primarily‚ the term has been used to refer to the material and instrumental side of human cultures that are complex in terms of technology‚ science‚ and division of labor. Such civilizations are generally hierarchical and urbanized. In a classical context‚ people were called "civilized" to set them apart from barbarians‚ savages‚ and primitive
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