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¶ … era of high-stakes testing in the nation's high schools and calls for increased accountability on the part of educators, the need for identifying what works best in improving academic outcomes has never been greater.

There continues to be a shortage of nurses in the U.S. and worldwide, and in some areas there is a shortage of physicians. One particular field of healthcare could provide support where there are shortages and that is the advanced practice RN, a nurse that has gone for a Master's degree in order to get the skills needed to step in and perform healthcare functions in lieu of doctors. Moreover, the advance practice nurse is trained as a leader, a manager, a researcher, and a talent that can solve medical problems.

The way training is delivered in a corporate environment has a tremendous effect on results. This study investigates the role of culture in the learning styles of adult French and American students enrolled in online training programs at an international university. Using Kolb's learning style inventory, the learning style preferences of respondents in both cultural groups will be classified as divergers, convergers, accommodators, and assimilators, reflecting their general tendencies toward learning environments as conceptualized by Kolb (1985). The assumption is that Americans prefer to learn from action-oriented methods and are more comfortable learning from activities that are not job related, such as role plays and games, than do their French counterparts who prefer to learn from job-related activities based on solid research. These preferences will then be examined in light of learners' responses to Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace questionnaire, which examines cultural tendencies towards collectivism/individualism, power orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long/short term orientation (Hofstede, 1980). The sample population will be composed of 150 American and 150 French trainees. They are all employed in multinationals and hold jobs that require them to attend corporate training and travel around the world. Conclusions will be drawn which compare French and American cultural differences in learning style preferences and the extent to which these preferences are mediated by cultural orientations as conceptualized by Hofstede (1980). Results will assist multinational corporations in understanding the role of culture in their training scenarios as they seek to provide more effective training for their increasingly cultural diverse learner populations which can provide some proof that they will be successful in using the new skills.

At the core of becoming an activist educator

The purpose of this paper is to apply a learning theory to an actual educational case study and scenario. The situation must be seen from the point-of-view of the nursing student scenario.

¶ … drafted in a more generous and open manner than questions in surveys should be, there would be greater difficulty in coding them, and more less commonly used methods may have to be found to code some of the…

Describe quantitative/positivist and qualitative/interpretevist methodological approaches; include examples of their research methods of data collection.

Overview- The authors of a research study examined 715 high school students in a large suburban area. They wished to define the relationship between a preference for heavy metal music and delinquency; controlling for…

¶ … customer's loyalty in the online services of financial service companies. Evidence from the Greek stock market

The topic of this research paper has to do with how younger voters get their information on voting in order to make informed decisions. The reason this topic was chosen is because our youth make up a large percentage of…