Education
Finding the Way While Learning: Formative Assessment
Formative assessment checks what students know and don't know while learning is still underway, and uses the results to improve both teaching and learning. We look at where the ter
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Economics
Reading Exchange Rates with a Single Hamburger: The Big Mac Index
The Big Mac Index compares the price of a Big Mac around the world to gauge whether a currency is overvalued or undervalued. This article covers how it began, the purchasing power
General knowledge
Masterpieces Are Always the Few: Sturgeon's Law
Sturgeon's Law is the rule of thumb that 90% of anything is crud. We look at how it came about, what it really means, similar ideas that came before it, and how to use it wisely in
Earth science
The Hot Wind That Crosses the Mountains: The Foehn Effect
Why can one side of a mountain range be cool and damp while the other is hot and dry? This article explains the foehn effect: how air changes temperature as it rises and descends o
General knowledge
The Importance and Preventive Benefits of Regular Health Checkups
Regular health checkups have become an important means of maintaining personal health and improving quality of life in modern society. Through regular checkups, many people can det
Social welfare
South Korea's Social Welfare Policy: Background and Components
Social welfare policy is an important policy developed to protect socially vulnerable people, reduce social inequality, and improve the quality of life of all citizens. South Korea
Psychology
You Try to Name the Color but Read the Word First: The Stroop Effect
The Stroop Effect is the phenomenon in which naming the ink color of a word slows down and errors increase when the word's meaning and its color do not match. We look at the 1935 e
Statistics
How Do You Create a Questionnaire, and What Precautions Should You Take?
In this session, I would like to prepare material on how to create a questionnaire and the precautions to take. Generally, a questionnaire is a set of questions that a researcher u
Economics
Putting a Price on the Harm: Pigouvian Tax
A Pigouvian tax charges an activity that harms others a tax equal to that harm, so market prices reflect the true social cost. Learn about externalities, how the tax corrects the m
Tourism studies
Even Seeing Is Learned: The Tourist Gaze
When we travel, are we really free to see as we like? This article explains the tourist gaze described by John Urry, covering its meaning and origins, how media and photography sha
Chemistry
A Solid That Dissolves in the Water in the Air: Deliquescence
Deliquescence is when a solid absorbs moisture from the air and then dissolves in the water it has absorbed. Learn how it differs from hygroscopy, the humidity at which solids begi
Information technology
HTML Tag Reference (Image, Hyperlink, Text Tags, etc.)
HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language and is one of the languages needed to create websites. Here, HTML mainly uses the concept of tags to create web documents, and this art