Robert Anderson

Examples of Robert Anderson in the following topics:

• Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Under the cover of darkness on December 26, six days after South Carolina declared its secession, Major Robert Anderson received orders from the federal government to abandon the indefensible Fort Moultrie and relocate his command to Fort Sumter.
  • Major Anderson, unaware of the Star's approach, declined to fire on the Confederate batteries.
  • Only Secretary of State Robert Toombs opposed out of concern for appearing as the aggressor and alienating undecided parties.
  • Ironically, Major Anderson was a particularly close friend of Beauregard’s and previously served as his artillery instructor at West Point.
  • Beauregard, in turn, had served as Major Anderson's assistant in the Mexican-American War.

• Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture

  • A particularly clear example of cultural sociology is the study of the Village-Northton by Elijah Anderson. [26] Anderson is interested in a number of things in his book, but two cultural components stand out.
  • First, Anderson is looking at the border of two culturally and socio-economically distinct neighborhoods.
  • Anderson's methodology is a combination of participant observation and interviews.
  • Anderson regularly describes the individuals he interviews and observes in light of their clothing, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and opinions.
  • Through years of observation, Anderson gained a familiarity with these elements of culture that allowed him to understand how they interacted.

• Example Transactions Showing How a Bank Can Create Money

  • We will focus on two banks in this system: Anderson Bank and Brentwood Bank.
  • Anderson and Brentwood both operate in a financial system with a 10% reserve requirement.
  • Suppose a customer now deposits $1,000 in Anderson Bank.
  • Anderson will loan out the maximum amount (90%) and hold the required 10% as reserves.
  • There are now $11,000 in deposits in Anderson with $9,900 in loans outstanding.

• Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT)

  • During the 1990's, a former student of Bloom's, Lorin Anderson, led a new assembly which met for the purpose of updating the taxonomy, hoping to add relevance for 21st century students and teachers.
  • This time "representatives of three groups [were present]: cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and testing and assessment specialists" (Anderson, & Krathwohl, 2001, p. xxviii).

• Introduction to Resource Extension Part 2

  • Since most carpet-manufacturing processes require approximately one kilogram of fossil fuel to make about half a kilogram of carpet material, and because carpets can take up to 20,000 years or more to decompose, the head of Interface, Ray Anderson, decided that it would be in the best interests of his company to become both sustainable and restorative (i.e. to replenish the resources his company uses).
  • (Frenay, Robert, Pulse)

• Single-Population Inferences

  • Two notable nonparametric methods of making inferences about single populations are bootstrapping and the Anderson–Darling test.
  • Two notable nonparametric methods of making inferences about single populations are bootstrapping and the Anderson–Darling test.
  • The Anderson–Darling test is a statistical test of whether a given sample of data is drawn from a given probability distribution.
  • The Anderson–Darling test assesses whether a sample comes from a specified distribution.
  • Contrast bootstrapping and the Anderson–Darling test for making inferences about single populations

• Drive Theory

• Introduction

  • (Anderson & Sosniak, 1994, preface), (Houghton, 2004), ( Krathwohl, 2002), ( oz-TeacherNet, 2001).

• Terminology Changes

  • (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 67-68)

• References

  • Anderson, L.
  • Anderson , L.W., & Sosniak, L.A.