Mathematics Teaching Learners Studying Basic Mathematics To Enable Helping Their Children With Their Education The work of Jackson and Ginsburg (2008) reports on a series of algebra classes involving a group of African-American mother and elementary-aged children, who are low income and who "had limited and negative formal experiences with algebra." (p. 10) The women in the study who arrived to the algebra classes are reported to have had "well-informed view of

Jalas, Christina. "Butch Lesbians and Desire." What, according to Jalas, is the relationship between sex, gender, and sexuality? How do you think gender and sexuality impact personal identity? Jalas posits that the butch-femme couple represents a gendered binary or complement, whereas butch-butch desire is perceived of more as "homosexual" due to the close alignment of their gender and sexual orientations. Do you agree with the author's assessment? Jalas frames "butch" as being more related

Automated Test Form Generation Critique of the Journal Article "Automated Test Form Generation" by Wim J. van der Linden and Qi Diao Van der Linden, J.M. & Diao, Q. (2013). Integrating test-form formatting into automated test assembly. Applied Psychological Measurement, 37(5) 361 -- 374 Retrieved: http://www.utwente.nl/gw/omd/Medewerkers/artikelen/vdLinden/artikelen%20vanaf%20juni%202011/APM%202013,%20361-374.pdf The ordering of items in test forms and the selection of test items from a database can be extremely tedious and laborious when done manually. It would be

Statistical Analysis Reported in Two Journal Articles Research endeavors, albeit it clinical, empirical, descriptive, historical, or case study oriented, must at all times adhere to the rigors of effective or best-fit research practice. Without stringent controls placed on the area of investigation no research endeavor will advance any body of knowledge. To this end all research must be finely tuned and described as to intent or purpose, phenomenon to be

Vocational Assessments Critiques Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) The Stanford-Binet is an individually administered test of intelligence and cognitive abilities for people between the ages of two to 85 years. The SB5 is normed on a stratified random sample of 4,800 people who categorically match the year 2000 United States Census, and the scores have been found to approximate a normal distribution. The SB5 measures the following five factors of cognitive

Hunting Critique of the film - Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is actually not on the subject of mathematics even though it is the brilliance of the main character within the subject of mathematics that is the premise of what follows. This is the emotional tale of a vibrant man's battle to surpass his Dickensian years as a child, to determine his place within the world, as well as to