Articles for category: Education

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IQ Testing: Reliability, Validity, and Scores

An IQ test, as most of you know, is an intelligence test. IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient which is the calculation of one’s score on an IQ test as compared with other test takers in the same age-group. There are several different types of intelligence tests, two of the most popular being the Stanford-Binet intelligence ...

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How to Study for a College CLEP Exam

**Note: this article comes from the writer’s personal experience as a college senior having taken a university-level CLEP Exam. For a college student, there’s nothing worse than being required to take a course unrelated to your field of study or a course that repeats material learned in high school. Unfortunately, the vast majority of colleges ...

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NAC Accreditation

The NAC (National Accreditation Commission for Early Care and Education) is one organization that a quality preschool should definitely be a part of. Unfortunately, a lot of preschools haven’t heard of it before. With this in mind, it is important to educate yourself about what this organization does and what it can offer you. What ...

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ESL Activities that Use Newspaper Articles – Part 2

Try these activities out with your ESL students. They make use of articles from a newspaper or magazine, and they’ll get your students to speak in English about the latest news. Use them for free and modify them to suit your needs. HEADLINE ANALYZATION Choose an article from a magazine or newspaper. Make enough copies ...

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Stay-at-Home Mom Goes Back to School

After 15 years of being a stay at home mom, I decided to go back to school. More than 17 years before I had gotten married then quickly dropped out of high school in my senior year. Two years later and some sense later I decided to get my G.E.D. but after that I wanted ...

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Options for Carrying a Concealed Handgun

There are now an estimated 6 Million CCW (Carrying Concealed Weapons) permit holders in the United States and applications are on the rise. One of the first questions newly-minted permit holders ask themselves is “Now, how am I going to carry this thing?” As a Reserve Police Officer and CCW permit holder, I think I’ve ...

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Analysis of William Shakespeare’s “Sonnets 18”- “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”

Aristocratic patronage was amongst the greatest asset that a professional writer could have during the Elizabethan reign of England. It offered the writer a pension, protection, and prestige. Shakespeare’s Sonnets stand out from others of his time due to their controversial subject-usually sonnets were written about a beautiful young woman, but Shakespeare decided to write ...

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Cognitive Development

Cognitive Development In addressing the intellectual development of children, several cognitive development theorists play an integral part in shaping what we know today as the standards by which we frame the norm for children. In essence, cognitive development is the gradual and orderly changes that occur making ones mental process more complex and sophisticated. (Slavin, ...

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Character Development Lesson Plans

Character Development: Lesson 1: To understand how conflict shapes a character and how as an individual you might dictate how you would react in certain situations, you are to create a character. Include all of the details listed below to help you create a ‘character’. To do so well, you should feel by the end ...

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Homeschool Curriculum Review

If you are wondering what options there are for your child’s education and are starting to think about possibly homeschooling, here are some ideas. A Beka Homeschool http://www.abeka.org/ Based out of Pensacola Christian College, A Beka has gained a very large following of homeschool families. They offer 3 options for study. A family can sign ...