Global Perspectives on Educational Testing: Examining Fairness, High-Stakes and Policy Reform
ISBN: 9781786354341 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a refined definition of standardized educational test fairness that can be utilized in multiple contexts to better understand the experiences and perspectives of diverse groups of test takers. Globally, there has been a significant influx in the use of and dependence on standardized tests to foster educational improvements. Standardized testing programs such as TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), are designed to provide information about a country's global standing in multiple academic areas, ranking individuals and/or groups relative to the...
This book provides a refined definition of standardized educational test fairness that can be utilized in multiple contexts to better understand the e...
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445,28 zł |
Affirmative Classroom Management: How Do I Develop Effective Rules and Consequences in My School?
ISBN: 9781416618522 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences. Richard Curwin's approach emphasizes student and parent engagement; schoolwide collaboration; and developing student responsibility. Curwin shows how educators and administrators at all levels can Ensure that classroom and schoolwide rules are meaningful and significant. Involve students to develop effective rules and appropriate consequences. Collaborate with parents and colleagues to foster a sense of community. Treat students fairly by enforcing...
This publication offers clear and positive strategies that empower teachers and administrators to develop effective rules and consequences. Richard Cu...
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62,79 zł |
Practical Applications and Experiences in K-20 Blended Learning Environments
ISBN: 9781466649125 / Angielski / Twarda / 519 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiles pedagogical strategies and technologies and their outcomes that have been succesfully applied in blended instruction.
Compiles pedagogical strategies and technologies and their outcomes that have been succesfully applied in blended instruction.
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This Is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
ISBN: 9781608463701 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Vilson writes about race, class, and education through stories from the classroom and researched essays. His rise from rookie math teacher to prominent teacher leader takes a twist when he takes on education reform through his now-blocked eponymous blog, TheJoseVilson.com. He calls for the reclaiming of the education profession while seeking social justice. Jose Vilson is a middle school math educator for in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / Future of Teaching, and his work has... Jose Vilson writes about race, class, and education through stories from the classroom and researched essays. His rise from rookie math teacher to ... |
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Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture
ISBN: 9789401076289 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of higher education require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievements with scores on standardized tests. Similarly, in the workplace, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring prospective employees to sit for standardized...
Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the dete...
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Evaluation in Decision Making: The Case of School Administration
ISBN: 9789401077033 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensions. Much has been written on decision making but surprisingly little on decision making in the school principalship. Much has been also written on evaluation as well as on evaluation and decision making, but not much has been written on evaluation in decision making, especially decision making in the principalship. This book presents two messages. One is that decision making in the principalship can be studied and improved and not only talked...
This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensio...
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389,98 zł |
School-Based Evaluation: A Guide for Board Members, Superintendents, Principals, Department Heads, and Teachers
ISBN: 9789401083737 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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194,97 zł |
Decision-Oriented Educational Research
ISBN: 9789401083768 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information requirements of those who are shaping educational policy or managing edu cational systems. It was written for those who plan to conduct such research, as well as for policy makers and educational administrators who might have such research conducted for them. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I is background. Chapter 1 describes some of the basic themes that are woven throughout subsequent chapters on decision-oriented research....
Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information re...
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389,98 zł |
Evaluating Educational and Social Programs: Guidelines for Proposal Review, Onsite Evaluation, Evaluation Contracts, and Technical Assistance
ISBN: 9789401174220 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by national, state, and local agencies. Mandates by federal funding agencies that programs they sponsored be evaluated gave impetus to use of evaluation. Realization that evaluation plays a pivotal role in assuring program quality and effectiveness has maintained the use of evaluation even where mandates have been relaxed. With increased use --indeed institutionalization --of evaluation in many community, state, and national agencies, evaluation has...
During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by nationa...
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194,97 zł |
Evaluating Business and Industry Training
ISBN: 9789401174251 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry. However, in the rush of providing training programs "on time" and "within budget," evaluation of training is frequently left behind as a "nice to have" addition, if practical. In addition, the training function itself is left with the dilemma of proving its worth to management without a substantive history of evaluation. This book is designed to provide managers, educators, and trainers alike the opportunity to explore the issues and benefits of evaluating business and industry training. The purpose is to...
In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry. However, in the rush of providing training programs "on time" a...
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Constructing Test Items: Multiple-Choice, Constructed-Response, Performance and Other Formats
ISBN: 9789401740999 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test's scores flows directly from the quality of its items and exercises. Concomitant with score interpretability is the notion that including only carefully crafted items on a test is the primary method by which the skilled test developer reduces unwanted error variance, or errors of measurement, and thereby increases a test score's reliability. The aim of this entire book is to increase the test constructor's awareness of this source of ...
Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a tes...
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585,00 zł |
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
ISBN: 9789400798526 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapid-and seemingly accelerating-changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of workers in many new jobs. Work environments are often technology-heavy, while problems are frequently ill-defined and tackled by multidisciplinary teams. This book contains insights based on research conducted as part of a major international project supported by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. It faces these new working environments head-on, delineating new ways of thinking about '21st-century' skills and including operational definitions of those... Rapid-and seemingly accelerating-changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of worke... |
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780,00 zł |
Leading Student Assessment
ISBN: 9789400738119 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes of assessment, a balance of assessment creativity and realism, the ability to detect solutions for assessment challenges, and the capacity to question and imagine assessment alternatives. The 14 chapters offer school and district educators, policy makers, researchers, and university teacher preparation faculty with a comprehensive,... This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practiti... |
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585,00 zł |
A Practical Guide to Teacher Education Evaluation
ISBN: 9789401076340 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. T. Sandefur Western Kentucky University American's ability to compete in world markets is eroding. The productivity growth of our competitors outdistances our own. The capacity of our economy to provide a high standard of living for all our people is increasingly in doubt. As jobs requiring little skill are automated or go offshore and demand increases for the highly skilled, the pool of educated and skilled people grows smaller and the backwater of the unemployable rises. Large numbers of American children are in limbo--ignorant of the past and unprepared for the future. Many are dropping...
J. T. Sandefur Western Kentucky University American's ability to compete in world markets is eroding. The productivity growth of our competitors outdi...
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389,98 zł |
Advances in Computer-Based Human Assessment
ISBN: 9789401054676 / Angielski / Miękka / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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780,00 zł |
Managing Complex Change in School: Engaging Pedagogy, Technology, Learning and Leadership
ISBN: 9780415728782 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage multidimensional change in order to create engaged learners, teachers, leaders and managers. They provide a readable and straightforward account of a major, high profile innovation in one school and draw from it key lessons for leaders and managers of change in schools. Managing Complex Change in School synthesizes a wealth of literature and research on managing change, and shows how the emerging field of complexity theory can inform the...
Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage...
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560,70 zł |
The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5: What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them
ISBN: 9781483349855 / Angielski / Spiralna / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains what the standards say, what they mean, and how to teach them. The book is organized by the Anchor Standards in the following categories: * Reading * Literature * Informational Text * Foundational Reading Skills (This is a departure from the 6-12 standards that we will have to consider in design/format) * Writing * Speaking and Listening * Language
This book explains what the standards say, what they mean, and how to teach them. The book is organized by the Anchor Standards in the following categ...
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157,96 zł |
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Exploring, Developing, and Assessing Tpck
ISBN: 9781489980793 / Angielski / Twarda / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) reflects a new direction in understanding the complex interactions among content, pedagogy, learners and technology that can result in successful integration of multiple technologies in teaching and learning. The purpose of this edited volume is to introduce TPCK as a conceptual framework for grounding research in the area of teachers' cognitive understanding of the interactions of technology with content, pedagogy and learner conceptions. Accordingly, the contributions will constitute systematic research efforts that use TPCK to develop...
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) reflects a new direction in understanding the complex interactions among content, pedagogy, learner...
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389,98 zł |
Empowering Excellence: Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment
ISBN: 9781475809855 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead in how teachers assess and interact with students. Empowering Excellence presents 12 significant "shifts" that encourage motivation, build confidence, and measure what students know and are able to do based on the Common Core State Standards or equivalent standards in a highly supportive, student-centered environment. Teachers, administrators, and education professors will find ideas that will transform classrooms into places where students are...
Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead i...
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134,14 zł |
University Rankings: Implications for Higher Education in Taiwan
ISBN: 9789814560344 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book adopts a qualitative case study approach to provide the readers with a systematic delineation and interpretation of the implications of the university ranking phenomenon for Taiwan s higher education system. It reviews the literature on different theories concerning the global transformation of higher education and presents basic information on higher education in Taiwan. The author develops a four-dimensional framework for the analysis of the ranking phenomenon in the island-state. First, the technological/ecological dimension aims to look into how the rankings have impacted Taiwan...
This book adopts a qualitative case study approach to provide the readers with a systematic delineation and interpretation of the implications of the ...
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389,98 zł |