...Unit 6: Influences on Learning. *The impact of key influences on my own learning.* There are many different factors that can influence a person’s learning. For example, a person’s health is one factor that could have an influence on learning. This is because if someone was poorly and they couldn’t attend college, they would miss lessons which could potentially make them end up falling behind with coursework because they don’t have all the notes they need to complete it. This could also link with a person’s motivation. This can also be a factor that could influence learning because, for example, if a person couldn’t be bothered to do any of their work then they wouldn’t be achieving good grades, or if they couldn’t be bothered to turn up for their lessons they could miss important notes to be taken to help them for the next assignment. Health is one of the main influences that has affected me throughout college. I have a lot of trouble with anxiety and sometimes my mood can become very low due to the anxiety and stress. This resulted in me not going to college and missing a fair amount of work being set by teachers. I felt that I was getting so far behind that I would never be able to catch up and then I wouldn’t get the grades I needed to do what I wanted when I left college, and then that made me stressed even more and made me begin to lack motivation to actually get out of bed and go to college. But also, because college was a new place where I knew completely no one, this...
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...early as 7:15 am. Studies are proving that this is having a very negative effect on the student body. Not only are the students not performing as well as they could, but their physical and mental health is in jeopardy too. Schools should start later in the day. First, the early start times have been proved to be affecting the teenager’s health. Dr. Judith Owens, Director of Sleep Medicine at Children’s National Health System, says “The research...
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...fatal familial insomnia); brief micro sleeps cannot be avoided. A National Sleep Foundation survey found that college/university-aged students get an average of 6.7 hours of sleep each night. Sleep deprivation is common in first year college students as they adjust to the stress and social activities of college life. A study performed by the Department of Psychology at the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan concluded that freshmen received the shortest amount of sleep during the week. In 1997 the University of Minnesota did research that compared students who went to school at 7:15 am and those who went to school at 8:40 am. They found that students who went to school at 8:40 got higher grades and more sleep on weekday nights. One in four U.S. high school students admits to falling asleep in class at least once a week. It is known that during human adolescence, circadian rhythms and therefore sleep patterns...
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... |Date due for return: | | |Teacher: |Mr O Henry |Date submitted: | | |Email: |o.henry@stthomasmoreschool.org.uk | | | Learning outcomes On completion of this unit a learner should: • Know the range of different businesses and their ownership • Understand how businesses are organized to achieve their purposes. • Know the impact of the economic environment on businesses. • Know how political, legal and social factors impact on business. Unit content 1 Know the range of different businesses and their ownership Range of different businesses: local; national; international; global; public; private; not-for-profit/voluntary; sectors of business activity (primary, secondary and tertiary) Business purposes: supply of products or services; difference between profit and not-for profit organisations Ownership: public, private and voluntary sectors; types of ownership (sole trader, partnerships, private and public limited companies, government departments, government agencies, worker cooperatives, charitable trusts); main implications of different types of ownership on businesses (extent of liability...
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...Is your child failing in school? Maybe he started out full of enthusiasm, but now his grades are slipping, his attitude is bad and he seems to be falling through the cracks. If your child has hit a slump midway through the school year, you are not alone. James Lehman has some advice for you today on what you can do now to get your child back on track. Many kids lose steam by the time the middle of the school year arrives. It’s very common for children and teens to get back to school after the holidays and hit a slump. Remember, kids are kids: their attention span is short, they're impulsive and it can be difficult for them to focus. It's easy for children to lose energy, and when that happens, a kind of lethargy can set in. If your child has a learning disability, or performance or behavior problems, this issue becomes magnified. Your child might feel as if he’s fallen into a hole and doesn’t know how to climb back out. (That hole can be caused by missed work, not understanding certain concepts at school, or social problems, among other things.) When your child is in that hole, it’s easy for him to become demoralized, act out more or withdraw emotionally. Often, he won’t ask for help even though he desperately needs it, and soon you’ll see his output start to slow down. Although this can occur with any child, make no mistake, for kids with behavior problems or learning disabilities, this is a very serious challenge to their stability for the rest of the school year. As a parent...
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...Educational achievement is influenced by a variety of factors, each of which is interwoven with another. Gender influences educational achievement for a variety of reasons and in a number of different ways. I intend to describe the ways in which educational achievement differs between males and females and the possible reasons for this variation between the sexes. Social class and ethnicity also play important parts in affecting the achievement of individuals and groups. I intend to discuss their affects on results seen in education and the way in which these factors are interwoven with one another. I will highlight the importance of each of these factors in determining the achievement of individuals and groups in education and the reasons behind their importance. Over the last ten years, the gender gap between the achievement of males and females in education has been growing in developed countries. (Gibb, Fergusson and Horwood, 2008) On average, girls in England achieve better results in most subjects at all levels of education. The issue is not confined to the UK as the problem also presents itself in other countries. (Machin and McNally, 2005) Women in the USA have continued to be more educated than men since the mid 1970’s. (Charles and Luoh, 2003 in Machin and McNally, 2005) Females attain more school and post school qualifications than males and also attend university in higher numbers. (Alton-Lee and Pratt, 2001, in Gibb, Fergusson and Horwood, 2008) National statistics...
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...St. Thomas More Academy, Inc. High School Department Molino III, Bacoor City, Cavite Factors Affecting Academic Failure Among High School Students of St. Thomas More Academy 2012-2013 Zarah Abigail L. Hernando Christian Dale C. Martagon John Bon Oliver V. Reyes Majella Marie S.D Miguel John Rene S.G Masuba Liezel Ann D. Deslate Jason Paolo D. Dumon Crisbie G. Villondo IV - St. Rita of Cascia Chapter I The problem and its background Introduction Education makes a man perfect. Everyone has to pass through three stages of education. These are – primary education, secondary education and higher education. In primary education children start to learn the basic knowledge. After that they come to the stage of secondary education. High school is the destination where students have to come to take secondary education. In this stage students are not children. This stage of education has a great effect on everyone’s life. Teens that are going through high school are also going through one the most important times of their development. For many, this moment in life is a time in which a cross-road is approaching; determining the path that they will take after high school graduation. In addition to maintaining grades, there are barrages of different elements that burden teens during this time that can make their lives among the most stressful. Education at secondary school or teen level is supposed to be the foundation towards higher knowledge in college. It is an investment...
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...Did you know that Finland’s High School graduation rate is 93%? That’s 18% more than the United States High School graduation rate. Research shows that Finland has a way better school system than the American school system. Finland is known for its top education and routinely top rankings of global education systems. Finland was the first state to change their educational system and it has succeeded. The three main factors to Finland’s success was getting the best teachers, getting the best out of the teachers, and having the teachers step in when students started to slack. Compared to schools in the U.S., Finnish schools give relatively little homework, the students have only one mandatory test at age 16, Finnish students don’t start school...
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...themselves. If nothing is done, relatively younger students will continue to score noticeably lower in reading, math, and science testing throughout elementary and middle school. Pre-university program participation in high school and college enrollment will remain lower, on average, among the relative youngest. Lastly, implications for educational policy, administrations, parents, and teachers are evaluated. What if the date of someone’s birthday was a gift in it of itself? Suppose this gift was manifested in the form of an inherent advantage enjoyed by the recipient indefinitely. For a new student entering kindergarten in states such as Illinois, Iowa, or Wisconsin, this advantage is enjoyed by a child with a birthday falling on or shortly after September 1st. The United States, like almost all education systems around the world, incorporates a single cut-off date to determine kindergarten...
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...additional fields within the tourism industry (Bieber et al, 2011) The fact that some students with apparently high scholastics aptitude do very poorly in tertiary school while others with only mediocre ability do very well has presented a challenge to many educators. It has been observed that hard working students with high IQs sometimes do not perform as well as their classmates with lower IQs (Harvey, 2003) Academic performance is generally refers to how will a student can accomplishing his or her task or studies, but there quite a number of factors that determine the level and quality of students’ academic performance (Bell, 2008). According to Swagman (2011), she stated that the U.S education system stacks up against other countries on the PISA international standardized test. Only Finland has a socio-economic profile above the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average. She also said that positive factors associated with test performance and this are: schools have control over curriculum; school place emphasis on standard tests; more students have pre- school education; and strong student- teacher relationship. In Third World...
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...there have become new demographics of young old (65-74), old (75-84), and oldest old (85 & over), and the frail old (anyone over 65 with physical or cognitive disabilities). The US census bureau estimated in 2011, the population of elderly persons 65 and over living in the U.S. to be 311,501,917. Between 2000 and 2010, the population 65 and over grew at a faster rate than any other population in the United States, 15.1% compared to 9.7% of the rest of the US population. Thirteen percent of the population is elderly; 55.2% are married, 32% live with family members, 51.7% are female, 48.3% are male, 60% are white, 17% are black, 18% are Hispanic, and 5% are other races. Education wise, 10.9% have less than a 9th grade , 10.3% have attended between 9th and 12th grade but did not receive a diploma, 36.4% are high school graduates, 20.6% have some college, and 22.5% have Bachelor’s degree or greater. It is estimated that elderly between the ages of 65-84 are doubling as the baby boomers age, with 85 and over being the fastest growing group due to elderly people living longer (US Census Bureau, 2012). As one ages, there are often cognitive changes and physical disabilities, especially with vision and hearing. It becomes more difficult to remain independent, so a lot of the elderly rely more on family support, agencies, assisted living places, or even institutions....
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...Definition: In an active portfolio strategy, a manager uses financial and economic indicators along with various other tools to forecast the market and achieve higher gains than a buy-and-hold (passive) portfolio. Tracking error is a measure of how closely a portfolio follows the index to which it is benchmarked. The most common measure is the root-mean-square of the difference between the portfolio and index returns. Many portfolios are managed to a benchmark, normally an index. Some portfolios are expected to replicate, before trading and other costs, the returns of an index exactly (an index fund), while others are expected to 'actively manage' the portfolio by deviating slightly from the index in order to generate active returns or to lower transaction costs. Tracking error (also called active risk) is a measure of the deviation from the benchmark; the aforementioned index fund would have a tracking error close to zero, while an actively managed portfolio would normally have a higher tracking error. Dividing portfolio active return by portfolio tracking error gives the information ratio, which is a risk adjusted performance metric. If tracking error is measured historically, it is called 'realised' or 'ex post' tracking error. If a model is used to predict tracking error, it is called 'ex ante' tracking error. The former is more useful for reporting performance, whereas ex ante is generally used by portfolio managers to control risk. The individual investors who wish...
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...“…class, race and place are intricately bound to one another and a singular focus on any of these factors is an insufficient explanation for educational outcomes” (18-19). In other words, race, class, and location affect each other, and combined, they all play a crucial part in education. As an initial example, Storer et al. point to the...
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...1 Elementary Education COM/150 8 November 2009 2 Elementary Education School year 2007-2008, there were approximately 22,434 out of 450,000 students dropped out of high school a 5% dropout rate in the state of North Carolina (North Carolina Board of Education 2009). This rate was entirely too high and we as parents, teachers, educators, and a community need to work to combat this unacceptable rate. We have to start early to stress the importance of education to our children and go the extra mile(s) to assist them and instill in them that they can succeed no matter the odds. Education starts at elementary level; if it is not fostered at that level then graduating from high school is almost an impossible goal to attain. Lake Rim Elementary school is in Fayetteville, NC and was established in March 2000, the school has a student count of 661 students (North Carolina K-12 website 2009). Lake Rim elementary has met the annual adequate yearly progress from 2001-2005, from 2005-2007 they did not meet annual yearly progress but met attendance target (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). In 2007-2008 the school met high growth and attendance target. Teacher to student ratio is 1:14 (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009) and the state of North Carolina is 1:15 (North Carolina K-12 website 2009) and there are 98 students in kindergarten at Lake Rim Elementary School (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). The...
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...is a common injury affecting children and adolescents. Although sometimes challenging to diagnose, tooth intrusion, aspiration and ingestion may lead to serious complications.5 Intrusive traumas are mostly experienced in the deciduous dentition with damage to anterior teeth; this kind of trauma is more common at age 1-3 years due to the high resilience and flexibility of the surrounding tissues around the deciduous teeth. Preschool children have wide medullar spaced bones; this situation leads to luxation and intrusion injuries instead of structural fractures.6, 7 The tooth most vulnerable to trauma is the primary maxillary central incisor, which sustains approximately 80% of all dental injuries. With a direct blow, a primary incisor can be completely intruded.8 Deciduous teeth traumas may present with several visual signs: colour change of crown, pulp obliteration, pulp necrosis, resorption of root, inflammatory resorption, ankylosis, gingival recession, permanent displacement of the deciduous tooth, and pulp necrosis/premature loss.9,10 The potentially most serious complications can occur when a tooth is displaced into another part of the body or when the tooth opens a communication from the oral cavity into an anatomical space.11 Common spaces for displacement of teeth (traumatic or non-traumatic) include maxillary sinus, nasal cavity, temporal space, infratemporal space, lateral pharyngeal space, sub mandibular space and buccal space. There are many factors that increase the...
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