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High-stakes standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind Act

Standardized testing has been rummaging around academic circles in America for close to a century ("Americans Instrumental"), but what has garnered the most controversy is the mandated nationwide testing under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2002 (Hudson 10-15).

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Genetic influences on individual differences in personality traits

Personality is a term that has largely been considered an unproblematic concept and primarily refers to the varying kinds of characteristics of individuals. Despite this assumption, psychologists have constantly used the word in different ways.

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Crisis negotiation team: qualifications and required characteristics

Cut Out to be a Part of a Crisis Negotiation Team? Team leader (this position does not involve actual negotiations but is rather tasked with coordinating the overall crisis response, including the use of a tactical team when required);

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Bruce Kaufman's critique of strategic human resource management research

The author, Bruce E. Kaufman, is putting forth the idea that research and scholarship on strategic human resource management has been avoided or ignored -- and that there needs to be better approaches to the challenges related to HMR.

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Classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, and behavioral counseling approaches

The paper also describes the effect of diversity issues on the learning process. In addition to that, the paper also summarizes the psychiatric disorders and their effect on learning and memorizing process. Lastly, the paper gives a comparison between various behavioral counseling approaches.

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Inattentional amnesia and employee recall of fire extinguisher locations

What was the point of conducting the experiment in the Castel, et al. article? Despite seeing the workplace fire extinguisher on numerous occasions -- perhaps as often as several times a day -- employees could not recall precisely where it was located, which was the point of this experiment.

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Organizational behavior approaches to managing employee resistance to change

Organizational behavior is a broad area within management which focusses on how people act in organizations.

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Buddhist philosophy and the treatment of narcissism through meditation

I interpreted this reading as Buddhist philosophy as being a novel way to address the difficult condition of narcissism that seems to be misunderstood by more conventional and modern methods.

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Aggression development in toddlers of alcoholic parents

It is a very worthy bit of research because it has to do with alcohol abuse and how that condition impacts the ability of children to lead normal healthy lives.

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B.F. Skinner's influence on organizational behavior modification

The role that organizations take in society is paramount. Therefore understanding how people behavior in this setting is an important field of study that has attracted many researchers over the previous decades.

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