The Effectiveness of Inquiry and Computer Based Learning in Remediation of Science Students

The state of Virginia requires science Standards of Learning tests to be conducted as a graduation requirement as well as a measure of teacher performance. In an attempt to increase graduation rates, the state has adopted an expedited retake policy allowing certain students to retest if their scores were close to passing but fell short. No requirement, however, was given as to the means of remediation that the students must attend in order to retest. This quantitative study examined the effectiveness of three instructional strategies in improving student performance during the retest. A quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design was used to examine two variables—inquiry-based instruction and computer-based instruction—and their effectiveness in raising SOL scores for students in the remediation program compared to the traditional method of direct instruction utilized in an urban southeastern Virginia public school district

Ethics and Supervision Process - Fundaments of Social Work Practice

AbstractThe article intends to present the concepts of ethics and supervision and the importance of each of these two concepts in Romanian social work practice.Based on the idea that social work ethics can be defined in relation to its values and principles which emerge, we consider necessary to establish a conceptual definition to meet the need of knowledge of the social worker. Values and ethics are the foundation of social work mission and involved normative considerations of what should be done regarding the orientation of social work ethics.Social work is a field that is based on constitutive powerful ethical values, the social work domain being developed and improved by translating these values into principles and then into practice. Approaching social work ethics, we mention our opinion about the underlying values of social worker profession, both at constitutive as well as practical. One of instruments of the ethics implementationSupervision as an educational and training process based on providing support, training, monitoring, evaluation specialists of social work is a relatively new field of applied research in Romanian social context. In Romanian legislation, supervision was required for the first time in 2004, when the Romanian Government urged to implement this process in the minimum standards on human resources in the field of child and family protection

A Matter of Energy

Our success at any job, individually or collectively, is largely a matter of energy. First, there\u27s physical energy. How many miles can we drive? How many days a week we can work? And how many nights can we stay awake without collapsing