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  2. Academic achievement - Wikipedia

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    Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals. Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor's degrees represent academic achievement. Academic achievement is commonly measured through ...

  3. List of academic awards - Wikipedia

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    United States. Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching. American Political Science Association. Developers of effective new approaches to teaching among political scientists. United States. Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. American Society of Criminology.

  4. Dean's list - Wikipedia

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    A dean's list is an academic award, or distinction, used to recognize the highest level scholarship demonstrated by students in a college or university. This system is most often used in North America, [1][2] though institutions in Europe, [3] Asia, [4] and Australia [5] may also employ similar measures. It is often synonymous with honor roll ...

  5. Achievement (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Achievement (video games) In video gaming, an achievement (or a trophy) is a meta-goal defined outside a game's parameters, a digital reward that signifies a player's mastery of a specific task or challenge within a video game. Unlike the in-game systems of quests, tasks, and/or levels that usually define the goals of a video game and have a ...

  6. 10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments - AOL

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    So here's a look at 10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments: 1. The Affordable Care Act or Obamacare is considered to be his greatest domestic achievement. The goal was to provide affordable health ...

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    Also isometric graphics. Graphic rendering technique of three-dimensional objects set in a two-dimensional plane of movement. Often includes games where some objects are still rendered as sprites. 360 no-scope A 360 no-scope usually refers to a trick shot in a first or third-person shooter video game in which one player kills another with a sniper rifle by first spinning a full circle and then ...

  8. Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Hoover's voice. Announcing his 1931 economic stimulus plan Recorded October 1931. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. He was a member of the Republican Party, and held office during the onset of the Great Depression.

  9. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    The "most common definition of meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests". [8] In government and other administrative systems, "meritocracy" refers to a system under which advancement within the system turns on "merits", like performance ...