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1. What are the three kinds of assessment? When do you use them, and how should they be used? 2. How do these assessments help students achieve/grow in their classes, and how do they provide you (the teacher) with more helpful information? 3. How would you define authentic assessment? Examples?

Questions (Pick 3 to answer) 1. Speech Act theory, as conceived by Austin (1962) is intended to explain what issue in the use of language? How does it do this? 2. Speech act theory posits three different types of acts to an utterance. What are these and how are they supposed to work? Do we really need three types? 3. Collavin (2011: 281-285) discusses the causality of speech acts. That is, how do speakers produce speech acts and how do listeners interpret them.? This brings a focus o...

To what degree are you willing to seek help from others when you experience difficulties? How satisfied are you with your self-care practices? Are there any changes you feel you need to make in your self-care practices?

Has pot lost its cool?

What environmental influences can affect prenatal development? How can we do a better job of educating families on these influences? How much control should the public health system have over these issues?

Crime Prevention through Social Development: This assignment will focus on Crime Prevention through Social Development. Criminal behavior can often be attributed to social environment and personal risk factors. Part 1: Identify a significant cause of criminality that relates to social environment factors. Identify a significant cause of criminality that relates to personal risk factors. Explain your answers and also include one theory that helps explain the significant cause of criminalit...

Discuss the main differences between the three political cultures in the United States.

Hebrew Literature: For the second week of the course, you read the story Mendele’s “Shem and Japheth on the Train”, The story belongs to the period of the revival of Hebrew as an everyday spoken and written language. Last week, we learned that one of the new things about this literature is that it referred to real, historical events, for the first time (while older Hebrew literature was mostly elaborating on religious significances divorced from historical reality). This assignment has ...

Probability: Probability concepts are used to determine a number of things we observe in everyday life. The odds of your favorite football team winning are determined by the betting site's estimate of the probability of that win. How much you pay for car insurance is based on the insurance company's estimate of your chances of having an accident. The cost of life insurance depends on the insurance company's estimate the probability that the policy holder will live to a certain age, Consid...

Assignment 2 Ecosystems, Biomes and Environmental Change: - Describe the elevation, climate, temperature and rainfall (and how they vary across time) - Describe the ecosystem (What biome is it? Beyond that, describe the vegetation. What are the dominant plant species? What are the most famous/important/unique other species found there? Are there certain species that are "Ecosystem Engineers" or "Keystone Species" - yes, you need to look up what these are; they are new concepts that you sho...