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Science Education and Practice, 2002.
A very in-depth study into an investigation of the appropriate level of convergence and divergence in information science education and practice.
13,201 words (approx. 52.8 pages), 59 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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The narrow focus of the research is the appropriate level of convergence and divergence between education and practice in database management systems for the period 2001-2020.
Two research questions are investigated:
1. What emphasis distribution between theory and skills during postsecondary database management systems education will have the greatest positive impacts on the effectiveness of database management systems practice over the long-term?
2. Will a dichotomy of perspective between database management systems educators and practitioners concerning the appropriate emphasis distribution between theory and skills during postsecondary database management systems education have negative impacts on the effectiveness of database management systems practice over the long-term?
The research strategy proposes to investigate the issue of the appropriate level for the gap between education and practice in database management systems will involve both structural analysis and phenomenological analysis. Structural analysis is applied to investigate the potential roles of theory and skills development in postsecondary education as a means of promoting long-term effectiveness in database management systems practice. Phenomenological analysis is used in the proposed study to collect data, refine issues, and analyse data within the context of the research questions investigated.
Table of Contents
Abstract
Statement of the Problem
Significance of the Study
Barriers and Issues
Research Questions
Limitations and Delimitations of the Study
Definition of Terms
Summary
Review of the Literature
Historical Overview of the Theory and Research Literature
Theory and Research Literature Specific to the Topic
Summary of What Is Known About the Topic
Contribution the Study Will Make to the Field
Methodology
Research Method
Procedures
Formats for Presenting Results
Projected Outcomes
Resource Requirements
Reliability and Validity
Summary
Discussion of Expectations
Anticipated Benefits
Projected Outcomes
Practical Applications and Findings
Constraints and Limitations of the Study
Contributions to the Field of Study and Advancements of Knowledge
Reference List
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"The revolution in postsecondary education in the late-1980s and early-1990s focused in part on the relationship between academic instruction and professional practice in most disciplines. Proponents of the so-called ?new pluralism? emphasize a need for a closer integration of theory, practice, and skills within the educative process (Edwards, 1993).
While few in either academia or the professions advocate a complete de-linking of theory, practice, and skills, many do advocate that the role of academia is to provide the theoretical grounding that will permit graduates to practice in a productive manner throughout a professional career, easily adjusting to innovations as they are introduced (Beyer, 1983). For some, the issue is whether postsecondary education should be for life or for a particular job (Macfarlane, Jeeves, & Boon, 1987). This latter position holds that postsecondary education that focuses on skills development in relation to specific tasks or the ability to apply specific technologies in an expert manner reduces postsecondary education to the level of vocational education, as opposed to preparing individuals for lifelong learning and developing a capacity to grasp and apply innovations as they develop (Madden & Mitchell, 1993)."
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Science Education Curriculum, 2002.
A research design to see if a new science education curriculum significantly affects performance in science education.
1,216 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper proposes a research design to assess the potential effects of a new science education curriculum for fifth grade students on student performance in science education and student attitudes toward science education. Additionally, the study seeks to assess differences associated with the new science education curriculum for fifth grade students in relation to variations in student learning styles.
Outline
Research Questions
Independent and Dependent Variables
Control for Threats to Internal Validity
Appropriate Statistical Analysis Procedure
References
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"The study would be structured as a Non-Equivalent Groups Design (NEGD). Among the 20 elementary schools with a fifth grade, student characteristics and performance in the accessible classrooms would be reviewed to identify four classrooms with the greatest potential for equivalency. In relation to the four classrooms so identified, random procedures would be applied to assign two classrooms to control conditions and two classrooms to experimental conditions. This procedure, however, would not cause this design to be randomized, as individual students would not be assigned to control or experimental conditions on the basis of random selection."
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Science Education, 2005.
This paper discusses the science education in many countries as related to the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
18,750 words (approx. 75.0 pages), 88 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains that scientific and educational advances in the countries which occupy permanent positions on the UN Security Council, have created tremendous growth in the areas of chemical and nuclear weapons research and of chemical and nuclear weapons production as a function of their science education programs. The author focuses on the scientific education infrastructure of individual countries, which is designed to produce scientific minds capable of creating WMD, as a result of science being taught without significant emphasis on philosophy, history and ethics. The paper relates that, since the fall of Soviet communism, Russia remains the largest of the former Soviet Bloc states and retains the vast majority of WMD capability; but these changes have resulted in a significantly weakened national science education program and a reduction in its ability to produce scientists and ultimately produce more WMD. Many charts and tables.
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Introduction
The United Nations
A Brief History of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Scientific Education in the UN General Assembly
Scientific Education in Countries of Interest
Scientific Education in Permanent Members of the Security Council
Global Education Trends
UNESCO
Education Reform in Islamic Countries
Education Advancement in the Sciences
Global Proliferation Trends
Rogue Nations
Consequences of Scientific Education
Conclusion
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"Within the United Nations are several councils, agencies, organizations and groups that carry out responsibilities and provide leadership for the UN as a whole. Among the smaller groups within the UN are disarmament groups such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO PrepCom). These bodies are responsible for preventing the use of WMD and for working to prevent the proliferation of such weapons. In addition to disarmament, groups are relevant education groups within the UN that are essential to consider when discussing the growth and potential use of WMD. Such groups are the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization."
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Kindergarten Science Education, 2006.
This paper discusses teaching techniques and curriculum content that can be effective in teaching science in kindergarten.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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This paper explains that science education in kindergarten presents the most basic ground for students to understand that science involves them in a dynamic formation of concepts and explanations. The author points out that one teaching approach is the traditional teacher-directed form, used mainly with older students, and the other approach is the informal constructive model, which uses child-initiated activities. The paper underscores that there is no concrete research findings on which of the two approaches are more appropriate to use in kindergarten science education. Rather, many preschool classrooms employ a blend of the two teaching disciplines. The author presents the use of realias, realistic objects common in the environment, as an outstanding tool to teach children scientific concepts.
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"The scientific method can already be taught as early as child's kindergarten years. Kindergarten students must start their study of science using their five senses to observe their surroundings. The class must be set up in such a way that it would provide a motivating atmosphere where students learn to explore the physical world around them. Their natural inquisitiveness often leads them to investigate the world by observing and operating objects that are common in the surroundings. In addition, children learn to deduce their observations by gathering bits of information or data for them to base their scientific explanations."
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Science Educators, 2004.
An analysis of teaching science in a 'Science/Technology/Society' (STS) context.
5,294 words (approx. 21.2 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 131.95
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This paper examines whether the attitudes of teachers have changed toward science teaching due to instructional focus or interventions such as STS (Science/Technology/Society), values and ethical issues and the nature of science. The paper contends that the emerging research is clear in illustrating that learning science in an STS context results in students with more sophisticated mastery and ability to use process skills. The paper claims that all students improve in terms of creativity skills, attitude toward science, use of science concepts and processes in their daily lives and in responsible personal decision-making.
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Abstract
Objective
Introduction
Methodology
Literature Review
Four Pedagogical Issues
Findings
Summary and Conclusion
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"Socioscientific issues (SSI) and Science, technology and society (STS) are distinct in that STS education in not 'embedded in a coherent developmental or sociological framework that explicitly considers the psychological as well as the epistemological growth of the child nor the development of character or virtue." However, the SSI movement holds its' focus on the empowerment of students in consideration of how issues based on science reflect the moral principles as well as the elements of virtue encompassing their lives, the physical world as well as the social world about them. (Zeidler, et al, 2000) Colleges and universities have recently undertaken initiatives to create Preservice teacher programs that better enable the instructional practices of the teacher. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) states that they view STS, "as the teaching and learning of science in the context of human experience."
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Medicine as a Practical Science, 2005.
This paper discusses medicine as a practical science and looks at the views of John Ladd and Kathryn Montgomery.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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In this essay the writer discusses the differences in the views between John Ladd and Kathryn Montgomery vis-a-vis whether or not medicine can properly be called a science. This paper reviews John Ladd's position in relation to the contrary position adopted by Kathryn Montgomery in respective book chapters penned by the two of them. The writer points out that Ladd is firmly of the view that it is because diagnosticians are expected to follow a certain protocol and a certain algorithm when performing their duties; in that regard, it follows the scientific approach utilized by researchers in the field of natural science.
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"Few professions are as demanding as medicine and a legitimate case can be made that none are more important. As should become apparent, there is a schism within the academic community as it pertains to the question of whether or not medicine should be properly defined as a science. Be that as it may, this writer finds Kathryn Montgomery's argument against the idea that medicine is a (practical) science to be more compelling than the argument Ladd presents, not least of all for her clever analogy to medical diagnosis as a sort of narrative-creation process."
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True Science and Pseudo-Science, 2003.
Discusses the notion of scientific discovery.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, $ 63.95
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Looks at testing to ascertain whether a hypothesis is true or false. The paper examines the views of Thomas Kuhn and the "paradigm" and Karl Popper's contention that deductive testing is true science, and induction is false science.
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"True Science vs. Pseudo-Science
Introduction and Purpose
True science and pseudo-science, it has been argued, can be distinguished from one another by an examination of the nature of scientific discovery, with particular attention to the use of a ..."
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"Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge" by Jean Barr and Lynda Birke, 2000.
A review of the work on the nature of scientific study, objective truth and the alienation of women from scientific fields.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 63.95
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"Science is a pervasive influence on human life today, though most people have only a vague image of what science means and may have complete misperceptions about certain scientific concepts. Many people simply have not been exposed to the information they need to judge science. Women, however, have been actively excluded, or at least discouraged, from science for some time, a factor much noted in analyses of academic statistics and in analyses of the job market in science. This is noted in the book Common Science? Women, Science, and Knowledge by Jean Barr and Lynda Birke as part of their primary emphasis on the fact that the scientific community remains largely unaccountable to the public. Part of their approach to this issue is to talk to non-academics to see what they think about science and about the issues surrounding the field."
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Higher Education in the 20th Century, 2002.
A review of the changes in education that have created the education system currently seen in universities in America.
8,654 words (approx. 34.6 pages), 34 sources, MLA, $ 182.95
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This paper explores the development of education in the United States. The paper reviews education throughout America's history to understand how the education system in place today came about. The writer looks at specific examples of educational institutes such as Yale University, to understand how education began and developed along the way. The paper includes a review of education reform specifically in the science and the military-industrial complex world. The writer attempts to understand how science education changed from the once religious and morally based to the technological lean it has today.
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"One of the more interesting discussions of the epistemological development of college students was provided by William Perry in his work with students at Harvard. Perry developed a map of the epistemological development of his students. Although some of the students interviewed originally were women, when he published his research, all the subjects included were male. This immediately biased the study, although Perry later indicated that the women interviewed followed the same sequence of stages as the men."
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Experience and Education, 2002.
An analysis of the book "Experience and Education" by John Dewey. The paper argues that that education should be based on the child?s psychological and physical development, as well as the world outside the schoolroom.
1,430 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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The book "Experience and Education" developed and nourished ideas that shaped the basis for many of present day?s common education practices, such as the performance-based assessment, cooperative and inquiry-based learning, play-oriented preschools, and hands-on science. This paper gives a brief biography of the author, summarizes the ideas presented in the book and discusses the strengths, weaknesses and drawbacks of these ideas.
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"Published in 1938, the novel "Experience and Education" is perhaps his most brief, clear response to the problems as being perceived by him in both traditional forms of pedagogy as well as in the fundamental reactions to those conservative forms. According to him in the book, these traditional practices have mostly served to reproduce an existing unjust social order."
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Career Choices: Computer Science (IT) and Architecture, 2005.
This paper describes the career choices in computer science (IT), the study of computers and the programs that run on computers and architecture, the blend of art and science in the design of environments for people.
1,355 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that employment demand for IT professionals in this fastest growing industry creates excellent job opportunities especially in the professional and technical occupations. The author points out that in the computer field professional education does not stop with the college degree but must continue long-term with seminars, conferences and advanced courses and training to keep up with the rapid changes in the field. The paper state that architects must be licensed in the state in they work; most states require an NAAB-accredited first-professional degree with an internship period of typically three years in an architecture firm.
Table of Contents
Computer Science
Importance and Benefit of Computer Science
Education
Professional Benefits and Job Security
Architecture
Importance and Benefit of Architecture
Education
Professional Benefits and Job Security
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"When in high school, plan a college preparatory program strong in English, history, social studies, mathematics, physics, and foreign languages. If you can, add courses in business and computer science. It may surprise you to know that freehand drawing skills will be more useful to you than drafting ability. Because most state architectural licensing boards require a professional degree, you should pursue the first professional degree accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The most common first-professional degree programs are the five-year (undergraduate) Bachelor of Architecture and the six-year (undergraduate/graduate) Master of Architecture. Many students also prepare for a career in architecture with a four-year (undergraduate) liberal arts degree followed by a three- to four-year (graduate) Master of Architecture. An architecture curriculum is intensive and demanding, often requiring many hours of late-night effort."
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Education and Technology, 2002.
A discussion of the nature of the relationship between education and technology at elementary school level.
2,169 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This paper determines in what areas of primary education technology can be most profitably employed and examines how high-tech devices can best be used to educate elementary schoolchildren. It reviews several literary articles on the topic and examines the advantages of computers in science education. It concludes by stating that in light of the research, we are failing to provide the kind of scientific education that will help give to children the intellectual tools that they need to succeed in life in a culture that is each day more pervaded by science and mathematics.
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"High-tech tools in the teaching of science may also help teachers instill a high degree of scientific literacy in their students through helping teachers avoid the tendency to present scientific information as isolated facts that must be memorized. As Lingelbach & Purcell (2000) argue, science is both most engaging and most easily learned by the young when scientific knowledge is introduced as a collection of interrelated facts. Kuykendall (1992) summarizes the case for the especial importance of multi-pronged, integrated approach to science for minority students."
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Best Practice, 2001.
This paper discusses the business concept of "Best Practice" and places it in context amongst other standard specifications.
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 98.95
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This paper firstly gives brief details on how best practice emerged and especially on the environmental changes that led to best practice.
Secondly, it discusses bench marking as a key component to best practice and the common characteristics of best practice, with a focus on human resource management and manufacturing organisations.
It describes recent ideas in management and how these link to best practice. Finally, it considers the continuation of the trend and shows how best practice has led us to a new focus on human resource management.
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"Best practice management is a current idea that is having a great impact on organisations all over the world. The idea at the heart of best practice is a very simple one ?how do the leading organisations manage their operations?? Beyond this basic concept, definitions of best practice vary. These definitions of best practice generally take the form of a list of requirements or elements required for success. Within these lists we see some common overall themes. One of the themes evident is the focus on human resource management.
Best practice focuses largely on making things better. For a company to achieve this they need to not just look at where things are currently, but also where the future lies. To see where best practice is heading, we will also focus on where best practice has evolved from."
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Religion and Science in Literature, 2002.
An analysis of the elements of religion and science in "Galileo, Science and the Church" by Jerome J. Langford and "On Crimes and Punishments" by Cesare Beccaria.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Galileo, Science and the Church" by Jerome J. Langford and "On Crimes and Punishments" by Cesare Beccaria. By understanding how both of these books seek to tell us how the world may view theories in the scheme of religion and science, we may have a better understanding of the issues that are at hand with these modes of thought.
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Forensics Science, 2005.
This paper discusses the various techniques used in forensic science, which is any part of science related to the law.
4,595 words (approx. 18.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 119.95
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This paper relates that, although forensic science appears to be a recent development, the modern medical-legal tactic to criminal investigations started in 12th century England when King Richard I enacted the "Office of the Coroner". The author points out that the scientific analysis of evidence left at the scene of a crime such as blood, semen, shreds of clothing, hair, weapons, tire treads and other physical evidence can seem more compelling to a jury than the evidence of eyewitnesses. The paper states that the purpose of crime scene investigation is to help understand what happened and to recognize the responsible person while carefully documenting the conditions at a crime scene and distinguishing all relevant physical evidence for further analysis.
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Introduction
Forensic Techniques
Firearms and Tool Mark Identification
Bullet Matching
Tool mark Evidence
Forensic Psychiatry
Profiling
Examination of Questioned Documents
Handwriting Analysis
Forgery
Scientific Evidence
Personal Identification
Fingerprints
DNA
Other Disciplines
Forensic Photography
Fracture Match
Crime Scene Documentation
Chain of Custody
Locard's Exchange Principal
Entomology
Blood Spatters
Soil
Glass
Crime Scene Investigation
Forensics in Courtroom
Validity of Forensic Evidence--Some Doubts
Conclusion
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"Few areas of examination at trial can seem as intimidating as the prospect of taking on the prosecution's forensic experts. Crime lab reports seem to have this aura of invincibility about them that lead few trial lawyers to tackle their conclusions head on in front of a jury. Maybe it is because some part of us thinks that the reported results are based upon "science", and science, in turn, can be empirically experienced. Hence, we reason, if the stuff can be checked, no lab technician would put things in their report that could easily be shown to be incorrect. Alternatively, maybe, it is because we simply don't understand how tremendously vulnerable to challenge the crime lab work product really is."
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