Left-handedness

Every Child Left Behind Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. In 2001 the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was approved, mandating annual testing in all 50 states. Since then, the use of standardized tests skyrocketed in American elementary and secondary schools. The NCLB has received a substantial amount of critics since its enactment, only increasing over time. The main criticism against the act is that it forces education to take the shape of an annual…

The No Child Left Behind Act was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform with the idea that setting high standards and establishing goals for children could improve a students outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all…

No Child Left Behind is a federal act which many federal educational programs are administered by the states. This is kind of the reboot of Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The No Child Left Behind act was enacted the year of 2002 where states are required to test students from grade 3-8 in reading and math and one more time in high school, where students must exceed or sufficiently score a reasonable grade meeting the average. The focus of No Child Left Behind is to make schools close…

are right-handedness, left-handedness and ambidextrous which is the ability to do use the both hands in doing different tasks. The handedness of a person can be determined if the specific hand can do the task comfortably in situations like writing and throwing. The right-handedness of the people has approximately 85% in the society (Porac, 2016). Statistically, the right-handed are more dominant and common than left-handed which is fewer to individuals. The hand preference of handedness of an…

Handedness is dominance of one hand over the other , or the unequal distribution of fine motor skills between right and left hands. It refers to the tendency of humans to be more dextrous or skilled with one hand over the other. By self report the rates of right , left and mixed handedness are 56.1%,26.3% and 17.5% respectively. The rate of handedness conversion is 2.7% to 11.8% in prior studies based on the total population including innately right handed people. The rate of conversion of…

Handedness and Cognitive Development Abstract: My research topic is Handedness and Cognitive Development. This study is to locate the major differences in psychological, personal and physical changes of the right and the left-handed people and its– effect on their personality and way of living. Despite the right is considered as good and left is considered as bad, and also people try changing their children’s handedness from left towards right under religious perspective, researches have proved…

that fit comfortably only in your right hand. the "sinistral brain" of the lefty uses the right hemisphere of the brain more dominantly than the left side of the brain — just as right-handed people use the left side of the brain for everyday thought process. This is because the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left hemisphere of the body, and the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right hemisphere of the body. This can be seen in stroke patients who experience brain damage on…

Handedness and Dream-Recall Frequency There are many factors that have been related to the ability to how much recall a dream, and a handedness has been studied as one of its factors in different angles. This study examined the relationship between handedness and dream-recall frequency in a wide range of ages and number of participants to support their hypothesis that right-handed and mixed or inconsistence-handed people would have more notable ability to recall their dream than consistent…

with trait positive urgency, with respect to the behavioral approach system (BAS) and behavioral inhibition system (BIS). Hypothesis (es) The authors of the study hypothesized that trait positive urgency will be linked with a growth in corresponding left frontal activity, in contrast to right frontal activity. The authors also hypothesized…

This particular episode of All in the Mind focuses on the hypothesis “Is being gay in your biology?” The research of three scientists focusing on what biological traits are different between gay people and straight people is presented in an easy to understand fashion. The first researcher we come across is Psychologist Dr. Richard A. Lippa. Dr. Lippa is looking for a link between gay people and their personalities by trying to figure out if genes play a role in the interests of gay people. One…