Category: Essays

Pedagogical Similarities and Differences in the Educational Systems of Sri Lanka and Australia

Posted on | by

 

compare and contrast Sri Lankan and Australian education, how these have been revolved to cope up with current global educational trends. This study will be mainly focused on Different kinds of approaches used in primary and secondary settings in two countries and whether these two educational systems have succeeded thriving students’ skills and capabilities according to the social and economical demands. And two countries’ primary and secondary sectors will be analysed under pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning, how school curriculum is made according to its cultural and social requirements and how assessment is used as a tool of students’ learning outcome in both counties.

Understanding Variables

Posted on | by

 

 

 

 

 

Select a variable that represents a phenomenon of interest to you and that you would like to study: that is, a dependent variable.

Name five variables that you think potentially influence that dependent variable that could serve as independent variables in a study. In other words, provide an example similar to the student achievement example provided in the Variables Topic Overview in which four independent variables were identified that influence student achievement (class size, teacher training, student motivation, and expenditure per pupil).

Complete Writing Exercises A–C in Creswell and Creswell (2023).
A. For a qualitative study, write a central question followed by five to seven sub-questions.

B. For a quantitative study, describe a published theory in your field, and write two directional hypotheses that challenge or extend the theory.

C. Write a mixed methods research question. Assume that your study involves collecting both qualitative and quantitative data.

Paraphilic Disorders

Posted on | by

In 2–3 pages:

Explain the controversy that surrounds Paraphilic disorders.
Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.
Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.
Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

Scientific and Non-Scientific Resources

Posted on | by

 

There is also two parts to this discussion. I know that these discussions can be tedious to write but the knowledge gained from this is invaluable. Plus, there is a lot of information to cover within the weekly topics.

Part 1: Scientific and Non-Scientific Resources

Last week you looked at the web resources and the quality of the information that you can find on the web. This week, it is important to continue the lessons that you learned last week by comparing scientific and non-scientific sources of information and asking whether the information in those sources is scientifically sound. Meaning do they have a solid scientific foundation. You can use the article/site you found last week as one of your articles/sites, or you can find two new articles/sites. One should be from a scientific source such as: a scientific journal (e.g.; Science; Popular Science; Nature); a government web site (e.g.: National Cancer Institute; FDA; CDC); or a recognized national organization (e.g.; Cancer Research Foundation; Susan G. Komen Foundation; etc.). The non-scientific source and be from any non-scientific source… they should be easy to find, usually they are trying to sell you something at the end of their article.

Compare them. Think about the sources of their information. Are their sources of information credible? Did they employ the scientific method? Is their scientific foundation to be trusted?

For this week’s discussion you can either post the web links to your papers/sites or the PDFs of your papers/sites.

State the scientific question the two papers/sites are trying to answer.

State the methods the papers/sites showed to get to their conclusions.

State whether you believe the articles have a solid scientific foundation. Why? Why not?

Also, as an aside, just because information is from a non-scientific source doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a scientific foundation… they sometimes do. Critically evaluate both resources.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Part 2: Genetics

The sequence of nucleotides in genes determine the sequence of amino acids in proteins. Alterations in DNA sequence can lead to changes in amino acids which can have strong effects on protein structure and its function. For example, a single substitution of a nucleotide (or point mutation) in DNA results in drastic changes in protein function e.g. as seen in sickle cell anemia. Please respond to the following questions:

Consider the examples of sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis and explain how gene modification leads to change in protein function. (Note: provide the name of the affected gene for each disease and explain the effect of nucleotide changes. You can use your book or references from previous discussions – week#4)
Efforts to correct errors in gene function have been tried for the past few decades but most have not shown consistent positive outcomes in clinical applications. However, in the past 10 years, the discovery of CRISPR-CAS9 system appears to introduce new exciting ways to correct errors in genes and paves the way for new approaches in gene editing. For medical applications, provide a guide on how the CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to fix gene errors in cystic fibrosis or any other genetic disorders. You can use this reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403038/

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Posted on | by

 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the nation’s report card, analyzes what America’s students know and can do. Their findings often situate the United States’ students at the bottom of academic ranking lists that compare our students to students in other countries. What do you think causes this underperformance? What can teachers do in their classes to raise proficiency and overall performance? How can the education field turn around this trend of underperformance?

 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Posted on | by

 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the nation’s report card, analyzes what America’s students know and can do. Their findings often situate the United States’ students at the bottom of academic ranking lists that compare our students to students in other countries. What do you think causes this underperformance? What can teachers do in their classes to raise proficiency and overall performance? How can the education field turn around this trend of underperformance?

Treatment-resistant depression

Posted on | by

 

Luke is described as having treatment-resistant depression and, while not suicidal, hoped that a fatal illness would take his life or that he would just disappear. His treatment involved mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, which helps participants become aware of and recharacterize their overwhelming negative thoughts. It involves regularly practicing mindfulness techniques and exercises as one therapy component.

The Pythagorean Theorem

Posted on | by

One of the most famous formulas in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem. It is based on a right triangle,and states the relationship among the lengths of the sides as a2+ b2= c2, where a and b refer to the legs of a right triangle and c refers to the hypotenuse. It has immeasurable uses in engineering, architecture, science, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and in everyday applications. For your first post, search online for an article or video that describes how the Pythagorean Theorem can be used in the real world. Provide a one paragraph summary of the article or video in your own words. Be sure you cite the article and provide the link.