"Field dependence/independence appears to affect many aspects of daily life including the ability to learn from social environments, types of educational reinforcement needed to enhance learning, amount of structure preferred in an educational environment, cue salience, interactions between teachers and students, and career choices."" ... The structural environment for field independence had a minimal structure in which the participants could choose to proceed in any order and granted minimal feedback (1999). The field dependent group was highly structured where the participate had to complet...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Education maximizes individuals' chances of academic success, by preparing them to either engage in further academic education or to participate in the occupational structure. ... This research study will attempt to demonstrate the major hypothesis that gender inequality in the educational system results from the formal structure of elementary schools, that is, the formal curriculum, as well as from the informal structure of elementary schools, that is, the informal or hidden curriculum, which leads to differential expectations and treatment of females and males. ... The overall structu...

• Word Count: 4539
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Students are taught to construct parallel lines and a transversal, using a compass and a straight edge. ... The community and parents of the students will provide practical support in the form of free labor in helping build parts of the structure of the building. ...

• Word Count: 1451
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• Grade Level: High School

The effort students put into their studies affect their performance and their access and success at the next level. Indicators of student effort include how often students are absent from school, how interested they are in their schoolwork, whether they try to do their best, whether they complete th...

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Simultaneously, the traditional, accreditation-driven structure inherent in university teacher preparation programs may have exacerbated the impact of the personnel shortages by delivering a product, which is often considered out of synch with public schools. ... This misassignment may actually increase when less formal structures (like three-week bootcamps) are implemented. ...

• Word Count: 2816
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Two laws were passed that laid out the basic structure and principles of the present educational system in 1947: the School Education Law and the Fundamental Law of Education. ... Charles Grinnell Cleaver agrees with these points and says in his book Japanese and Americans: Cultural Parallels and Paradoxes: In Japan, these [problems] include three that are interrelated: an apparently indestructible pyramid of prestige, which is responsible for the well-known "examination hell" into which youngsters are thrown; a somewhat intractable Ministry of Education; and a method of teaching which rath...

• Word Count: 1948
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern educators should approach teaching within the confines of a biologically driven instructional framework to support this structure and function regarding how students learn best (Bonnema, 2009; Spears & Wilson, n.d.). ... Educators must take advantage of the brain's ability to parallel process. ...

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The learning competencies in Geometry represents a point, line and plane using concrete and pictorial models; defines, identifies and names the subsets of a line; illustrates, names, identifies and defines the different kinds of angles; derives relationships of geometric figures using measurements and by inductive reasoning: supplementary angles, complementary angles, equal angles, adjacent angles, linear pairs, perpendicular lines and parallel lines; derives relationships between vertical angles and among angles formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal using measurement and by inductive ...

• Word Count: 4402
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In parallel, a study will be undertaken to determine the financial implications (government, implied costs to households and private education) and the options for financing of the K+12 Basic Education model that will be adopted. ...

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Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 years. Most of what is known has been learned since the early 1970's. Reading comprehension and how to teach it, is probably the area of literacy about which we as educators have the most knowledge and most consensus. However, it is also probably the area that receives the least attention in th...

• Word Count: 3864
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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate