High School Case Studies Samples For Students

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- St. Martin de Porre High School
- Sources of funds
- Accomplishments and awards
- The Corporate Work Study Program
- History and background
- When was it established?
- Why was it established?
- Who started it?
- Management
- Who manages it?
- Where is it located in the school structure?
- What are the tasks of the persons managing the program?
- What are the common problems encountered by the management? How are these resolved?
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Problem identification involves an evaluation of the current state to determine it’s differences form the stated goals. From the alternatives under consideration in this case the decision problem has been identified because random ideas outcome and effects, planned and unanticipated change as well as competitors are among the issues considered in problem definition. These issues have been considered in this case because the outcomes of the speech clinic have been considered in that its outcomes are not satisfactory since it did not do the duties it was expected to such that psychologists, psychiatrists and pediatricians were not willing ...

Personality and psychological disorders

Occupation: Student
Age: 15 years
Tom welling is a teenage student at his first year of college. Through his life in high school Tom was viewed as a grown soul in a young body. Among his age mates he would stand out as the mature one. Despite his mature character Tom did not have a healthy social life. He had only two friends whom he could trust whole heartedly. This trait had developed since he was in high school. He could seclude himself from the rest of his age mates and engage himself in sentimental conflicts. He was the only person ...

Grant Wiggins, the author of the article "A Diploma Worth Having" expressed his points of view regarding highs chool education. According to his article, high school diploma should be abolished for the reason that diploma does not help high school students to be prepared for the adult life. In addition, Wiggins quoted "There's only one valid measure of the high school curriculum: How well does it prepare students for their adult lives?" (Wiggins, 2011, p. 28). This means that rather than setting which standard to follow in order to better prepare the students for their future is to set ...

The Columbine High School experienced a horrific turn of events on the 20^th of April 1999. Two of its students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were on a mission that led to the death of 12 students and one teacher. The two teenagers had been planning for this massacre for quite some time. They been collecting guns, ammunitions as well as bomb components that they would use on the day of 20^th April. It is said that they had even created a website which they posted blogs with statements that pinpointed several individual likely to be ...

Clark

Clark, a junior in high school wants to gain some muscle mass before his last football season next year. He is not very knowledgeable about nutrition and mainly consumes processed foods. His diet consists of two to three meals a day and his training regimen is sporadic and inconsistent. He has three months to obtain the results that he wants.
Clark’s basal metabolic rate (BMR) is 1874.1. Clark’s daily calorie requirement (DCR) is 3,538.5. Clarks target heart rate is 166. There are several things to keep in mind while working with Clark. First, Clark is not ...

Executive Summary

This case takes off from a school related incident wherein a fifteen year old girl was shot by another classmate. She died inside their school, Dillard High School at Fort Lauderdale. This case provides a preview of the greater case of increasing school related incidences at Broward County, Florida and the rest of the country. This case study selects a school based violence prevention program, which requires community-wide collaborative efforts from students, families, teachers, administrators, staff, social and mental health professionals, police officers, emergency response personnel, security experts, among others. There is remarkable evidence that violence in schools and programs to prevent bullying ...

Conceptualization

The psychological problems of the client, Yisel revolve around her choice of career, and are rooted in the fact that she is trying hard to live and make decisions according to the expectations of her parents as she fears disappointing them. Yisel is incongruent because there is a very slight overlap between her ideal self and her real self. With this being the case, it is very unlikely that she will achieve the state of self actualization. Seeking to conform to the needs and desires of her parents has consistently widens the gap between her real self and her ideal ...

Questions:

1). Based on the “Billy Beane: Changing the Game” case, explain how and why the Oakland A’s economic situation after 1995 shaped its:
a) Compensation strategies:
Oakland A’s disobeyed the laws of baseball economics in the world of most important league baseball. There was an expense of only $34 million by the team and they won 102 games and loss 21 only, in 2001. Moreover, they were the first ones to finish in their division and made the matches. The chief baseball teams preferred to hire players from high school rather than players from college. As a ...

Disney is a diversified American multinational mass media corporation. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney. The company is best known for the production of cartoons, animations and recently a movie Pirate of the Caribbean Sea. In 2006 Disney under the CEO Bob Iger, came up with hit movie cars that generated $462 million worldwide. Then he created Hanna Montana, High school musicals and the Disney princesses.
Bob Iger introductions have broadened Disney’s opportunities in the following ways; the creation of Cars franchise helps in cracking tween boy market which ...

Discussion between Christopher Caldwell and I

Caldwell: Just how important or valuable do you consider college education in America today?
Me: Considering the increase in the number of families, sacrificing a lot to have at least one of the family members in college, I presume therefore that college education must be very important and valuable too.
Caldwell: According to you, you presume college education to be important simply because many families sacrifice to at least have one of their own go to college. They have to spend a lot of money, up to $180, 000 dollars just for one student. I think these money can ...

Age: 27

Introduction
Lady Gaga was born in March 1986 in New York and since she was young she has always displayed her talent in music .Since her high school years, she has always been a provocative and an extremely strange performer. During her high school years, Lady Gaga was frequently mocked and ridiculed because of her personality. In interviews, she has admitted that she was a freak and never fitted in with her peers especially because of her obsession with attention. She has been the kind of person with crazy actions that make her look like she is seeking attention. But ...

Introduction

Deyun Meng (pseudonym only), a tourist, is a 37-year old doctoral candidate. I met her while waiting for a taxi on my way home. She has been here in the US for barely two (2) weeks to visit a sick relative. I told her if I could observe and interview her for my case study project in developmental psychology. I explained to her the purpose of my project and gave her the participant consent form. She answered affirmatively. The next day, we spent nearly one-and-a-half (1 and ½) hours in a café near her relative’s residence. Deyun ethnic background is Chinese. She has been a ...

The Case of Angelina Jolie

It may sound like a mere rumor but it is a verifiable fact that the celebrated Hollywood movie star, Angelina Jolie has been a victim of bipolar personality disorder. Born on the fourth day of June 1975, the actress, who is a favorite in the entertainment industry, was named Angelina Jolie Voights (Tracy, 2008). Voights, her father was an actor and had met Angelina’s mother in the movie industry as she was into the acting business as well. Angelina’s parents separated in the year 1976 following Voight’s infidelity tendencies. The breakup has been pointed out as being the key factor ...

Introduction

Changing a mindset is extremely difficult, especially for a person who is juggling all of the commitments of a busy life—a full-time job, family obligations, showing up for social occasions, and the like. It seems to be simple human nature to go along in life making incremental changes, but never really examining the underlying assumptions that our days are based upon. Entrepreneurs may have certain character attributes that give them the capacity to distance themselves from the urgent—what to wear, who to hire, how to soothe the boss—to focus on the truly important—what is meaningful, ...

This case concerned equal employment opportunities. In the case, the company required individuals to pass two tests in order for them to be allowed to work inside the organization. The tests include the Wonderlic Personnel Test and the Bennett Mechanical Aptitude Test. The Wonderlic Personnel Test intended to test the general verbal abilities of the applicants. The scores were approximated according to the median high school graduate performance. African American applicants raised an issue with the application process citing the use of unfair hiring practices by the organization. They individuals indicated that the practice was a violation of employment ...

Background: The rising prevalence of obesity in children is a serious public health concern. Obesity is like a silent killer, and can predispose the child to a number of lifelong disabilities and chronic diseases. Obesity is negatively linked to life span. A child with obesity has higher amount of adipose tissue deposition, when compared to a normal weight child. The excess calorie that is not utilized for work or growth, is deposited in the form of adipose tissue and stored in the body. Adipose tissues are made of adipocytes or other called fat containing cells.
Obesity occurs from factors ...

Introduction

Throughout the years media and the way it is broadcasted has evolved to meet changing audience preferences as they shifted. Unlike today’s media, this form of media was very uniform with very little difference in the content or program show times. The advancement of technology since then has completely altered the mass media landscape; there is more diversity and representation in programs and audiences have more control over the content that they view. For example, companies such as Netflix and Hulu give users the ability to choose from a range of television programs and access to the content ...

Abstract

The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

Disasters most commonly elicit the response of city, local, state, and federal aid agencies to meet the mitigation of destruction during various phases of an emergency event. Public health legal authority, during a hazardous substance discharge, may call for both public and private agency involvement. Thrusting personnel and materials in the area must operate under the auspices of inter-jurisdictional protocol and legal authority. The objectives in this written exercise are to alert the learner, in anticipation of future professional behavior, about gaining an understanding for legal protocols in public health/hazardous emergencies while maintaining the highest levels of public safety during a ...

The challenges that marriages in the present day face have increased there has been a gradual change in the family setup accompanied by family breakups and hence a great majority of people entering into marriage come in with various social problems (Berg & de Shazer, 1993).Even for those couples that had a stable childhood problems often crop up in marriages due to the different personalities and temperaments of the people that enter into the marriage. Marriage counseling is hence a very important component of psychology as it helps couples to get to the root cause of their problem and hopefully get solutions. Since ...

There are many issues surrounding the life of Marci, the 23 year old young woman that seems to be losing her mind because of perceived indulgence into drugs. Among the primary issues surrounding the life of Marci, the young woman, are such things as:

List in order of importance

- Dependence – seemingly, Marci is dependent on Marijuana because, despite the problems the drug has landed her into, she does not seem to quit using it. On the contrary, she describes it as pleasurable.
- Peer pressure – from the case, it is clear that the choice to abuse drugs can be closely connected to ...

Bunking classes, dating popular people and openly smoking and drinking are some of the attractive features of entering college which often makes it as one of the most exciting phases of life. However, the charm of entering into college is not a long lasting one merely because of the veiled responsibilities and adjustment issues which arise due to emerging adulthood. This is a period marked with mood swings, irritability, and depression along with other consequences of life stressors. Since people are quite often unprepared to face these challenges, it is highly essential to draw light on the number of issues associated ...

In trying to evaluate how the Development, Relief and Education of Alien minors (DREAM) act would affect life in the United States of America, the quasi-longitudinal study approach was the most appropriate. Various variables to be studied include; impact of the DREAM act on U.S.A and improvement in education levels. Other variables such as effect on country’s global economy, quality and service of the military, change in prevalence of illegal migration, growth and development of alien minors and moral character are important considerations in quasi longitudinal study. DREAM act is a legislative proposal passed in 2010. It was aimed ...

Introduction

Research is important in the development of the best pedagogical approaches aimed at improving students’ learning outcomes. To this end, this paper explores the extant research literature with a view to answering the question: “what is the disparity in performance by the children from poor social economic settings when compared to children from well-off social economic settings?” Besides an answer to the aforesaid question, the literature review identifies informational gaps within the study topic.

Literature Review

There is extensive literature on the disparity in performance by children from poor backgrounds compared to those coming from financially stable families. However, while most of ...

- Analysis of data
The action research study addresses the following research questions: what is the effect of critical viewing on the acquisition of literacy skills? Does critical viewing assist in better retention and application of literal terminology as compared to the traditional mode of learning? The data collected in the survey that was conducted in the fall and spring of 2003 answers the first research question. During this survey, 64 twelfth grade students were asked to identify the medium that assisted them to recall the facts more easily. The students were drawn from the traditional English course ...

Five strategies for supporting second-language learners in an early childhood classroom which I have found to be successful are as follows:

Children love to watch television. Turn on the classroom television but turn off the sound and turn on closed captions, thus forcing them to read English. After about five minutes, turn off the television and ask students to write two sentences about what was going on in the cartoon. Ask questions of the plot or characters to get them thinking about how to formulate more than superficial answers. It becomes very competitive between the ESL students to see ...

Central issues

The question as to whether television is a tool critical for aiding the acquisition of knowledge has been the subject of debate among scholars. Some scholars argue that television is a hindrance to the process of learning hence should be left out of the learning set up. In a seminal review on the role of media in education, one scholar points out that media is not a determinant of the outcomes of learning rather the content presented is what determines the learning outcomes. He concludes his research in stating that the media is basically “ a mere vehicle of delivery” hence it does not determine ...

Description of the study

Soccer players in English premier League are some of the wealthiest sportsmen in the world. However, the wealth of individual soccer players in the English premier League differs with some players having a higher net worth than others. An article by Sunday Time listed David Beckham as the wealthiest soccer player with a net worth of 249 million dollars. The list was based on identifiable wealth, property, land and other assets excluding bank account balances. It stated that the wealth of soccer players could be determined by their physical performance, annual income and education level. To this end, this study seeks ...

Psychology

Background

Mary is a 24-year old African-American woman that seeks evaluation of her condition. She has been using heroin since she was 19 years old. Mary is pointed out her boyfriend Max as the person that introduced her to heroin after she moved in with him. She has a history of family dysfunction and grew up seeing her father as an alcoholic and her mother undergoing an alcoholic recovery phase. Mary reported that she never received any substance or professional help before and that would justify any hesitation on her part to undergo evaluation. Another crucial part of her situation is ...