took a rare stance against grade inflation in 2004, and publicly announced a
policy designed to curb it. The policy states that A's should account for less
than 35 percent of the grades for undergraduate courses and less than 55 percent
of grades for junior and senior independent work
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To date, the administration has not taken steps to strictly enforce these guidelines, instead opting to rely on departments to apply them
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nearly constant in the Natural Science departments, which were typically at or near the 35% guideline
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(VARK) models[18]: visual learners; auditory learners; reading/writing-preference learners; kinesthetic learners or tactile learners[1]. Fleming claimed that visual learners have a preference for seeing (think in pictures; visual aids such as overhead slides, diagrams, handouts, etc.). Auditory learners best learn through listening (lectures, discussions, tapes, etc.). Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer to learn via experience—moving, touching, and doing (active exploration of the world; science projects; experiments, etc.). Its use in pedagogy allows teachers to prepare classes that address each of these areas. Students can also use the model to identify their learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them the most.
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When teachers use Socratic questioning in teaching, their purpose may be to probe student thinking, to determine the extent of student knowledge on a given topic, issue or subject, to model Socratic questioning for students, or to help students analyze a concept or line of reasoning.
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To deeply probe student thinking, to help students begin to distinguish what they know or understand from what they do not know or understand
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To foster students' abilities to ask Socratic questions
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The concept of the zone of proximal development was originally developed by Vygotsky to argue against the use of standardized tests
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elective affinities
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average (or mid-year) population
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Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income
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efficiency
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technophiles who do not see the downside of technology. This is dangerous because technophiles want more technology and thus more information
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see
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where people medicate themselves into bliss
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Postman asserts the presentation of television news is a form of entertainment programming; arguing inclusion of theme music, the interruption of commercials, and "talking hairdos" bear witness that televised news cannot readily be taken seriously
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A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy. Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of some desktop software.
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