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  2. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    In these cases, the length of the term is shortened from say 15 weeks (in a semester) to around 10 weeks for a quarter, and to as short as four weeks for shorter sessions. Then to create equity in student hours, adjustments are made either to the length of class time or to the assignment of course credit.

  3. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty. [3] [4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery. [5] Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang for one thousand Myriad ...

  4. Wikipedia:Words per article - Wikipedia

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    The upshot is that the 79 million words in fact span the 239,000 bona fide articles, the remaining 22,000 linked articles, and the unknown number of articles without links. As of October 2004, the total word count in the latter two categories was estimated at two million words. Dividing the remaining 77 million words by 239,000 gives a mean ...

  5. List of spreadsheet software - Wikipedia

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    Apple iWork Numbers, included with Apple's iWork '08 suite exclusively for Mac OS X v10.4 or higher. AppleWorks – for MS Windows and Macintosh. This is a further development of the historical Claris Works Office suite. WordPerfect Office Quattro Pro – for MS Windows. Was one of the big three spreadsheets (the others being Lotus 123 and Excel).

  6. Flesch–Kincaid readability tests - Wikipedia

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    "The Flesch–Kincaid" (F–K) reading grade level was developed under contract to the U.S. Navy in 1975 by J. Peter Kincaid and his team. [1] Related U.S. Navy research directed by Kincaid delved into high-tech education (for example, the electronic authoring and delivery of technical information), [2] usefulness of the Flesch–Kincaid readability formula, [3] computer aids for editing tests ...

  7. Wikipedia:Student assignments - Wikipedia

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    Student assignments can help improve Wikipedia, but they can also cause the encyclopedia more harm than good when not directed properly. Volunteer editors are sometimes left with a mess and the burden of fixing poor-quality edits, cleaning up or reverting original research, merging content forks, and deleting articles.

  8. Grading in education - Wikipedia

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    Grading in education is the application of standardized measurements to evaluate different levels of student achievement in a course. Grades can be expressed as letters (usually A to F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), percentages, or as numbers out of a possible total (often out of 100).

  9. Document-based question - Wikipedia

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    The document based question was first used for the 1973 AP United States History Exam published by the College Board, created as a joint effort between Development Committee members Reverend Giles Hayes and Stephen Klein. Both were unhappy with student performance on free-response essays, and often found that students were "groping for half ...