Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Evaluation & Assessment

This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs. Based on a rigorous analysis of international literature and the policy context for teacher education globally, and assessing data generated through a longitudinal study conducted in Australia, it investigates the effectiveness of teacher education in preparing teachers for the variety of school settings in which they begin their teaching careers.

Over four years, the Studying the Effectiveness of...

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the fundamentals of assessment, explanations of its uses,...

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the fundamentals of assessment, explanations of its uses,...

In this comprehensive book, scholarship from leading experts on each of...

This book shows teachers how to collect, analyze, and act upon data about multilingual learners--a large and growing population of students.

While students who enter a new school must learn to adapt to a new situation, multilingual students who enter a new school must ofto adapt to a new country and a new language--and they must be assessed along with their peers. In Assessing Multilingual Learners, author Margo Gottlieb presents the story of Ana, a newcomer to the United States and the American school system and, in a month-by-month format, reveals how assessment affects...

The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students, faculty, and student affairs professionals with a primary textbook and reference guide for conducting and applying research in student affairs. Currently, student affairs academic field does not have a separate text for methods instruction. This textbook is designed meet that need by teaching readers about the role of research in the field, how to interpret its various forms, how to be critical as a research consumer, and how to use research to inform practice. This book would help the students and current practitioners develop and...

The SLS User's Manual explains the development, administration, scoring, and interpration of the Student Language Scale (SLS). The SLS is a simple, cost-effective way to screen for language and literacy disorders, including dyslexia. This quick and easy 12-question screener is filled out by parents, teachers, and students to show each party's perspective on how the student is performing on academic tasks as compared to their same-age peers.

The SLS helps you:

• Screen for language/literacy disorders such as dyslexia by gathering teachers' and parents' ratings...