Intelligence, Destiny and Education: The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing
ISBN: 9780415394932 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. However, there has been little investigation into the rise of the traditional dominant educational ideology that intelligence and IQ have innate limits and are unchanging and unchangeable. This book traces the roots of this mind set back to early puritan communities on both sides of the Atlantic, drawing parallels between puritan dogma and the development of the traditional curricula and selection processes that are still firmly embedded in... The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of year... |
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271,23 zł |
Assessment for Equity and Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children
ISBN: 9780415914727 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their future. Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential. Assessment for Equity and Inclusion confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, locating strategies of assessment by which students are included...
How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their fut...
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704,29 zł |
Assessment for Equity and Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children
ISBN: 9780415914734 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their future. Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential. Assessment for Equity and Inclusion confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, locating strategies of assessment by which students are included...
How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their fut...
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297,31 zł |
Fair Game?: The Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415925600 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the onslaught of editorials and articles on the subject of standardized admissions tests, few people outside the rarefied world of psychometrics-the statistical analysis of test scores-know about the procedures used to develop, score, and evaluate these tests. Rebecca Zwick demystifies these procedures to present a common-sense view of the politics of education. Highly informed and convincingly argued, Fair Game? connects the mechanics of assessment to broader issues raised by test critics and supporters alike.
Do accusations of race- and gender-based test discrimination hold up... Despite the onslaught of editorials and articles on the subject of standardized admissions tests, few people outside the rarefied world of psychometri...
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203,41 zł |
Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions
ISBN: 9780415948340 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admissions, including the president of the largest public university system in the U.S., as well as the presidents of the two companies that sponsor college admissions tests in the U.S. The contributors address not only the pros and cons of the SAT itself, but the broader question of who should go to college in the twenty-first century.
Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admission...
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678,21 zł |
Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions
ISBN: 9780415948357 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The controversy surrounding the implications of standardized tests for college admissions is constant among the general public, academics, administrators, policy makers, and certainly students. This unique volume gives voice to all the major players and writers at the forefront of the debate currently raging in America over the scholastic assessment test (SAT). The book not only focuses on Richard Atkinson's controversial stance regarding the American SAT, but highlights the thinking of individuals from all the various sectors involved, from testing specialists to academics to the popular...
The controversy surrounding the implications of standardized tests for college admissions is constant among the general public, academics, administrat...
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192,97 zł |
Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment
ISBN: 9780471324324 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret individual achievement tests
Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment covers the achievement tests used in educational planning, transitional programming for students with disabilities, and career/vocational planning-including the major individually administered tests such as the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-II), Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (K-TEA), Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised (PIAT-R), and the Wide Range Achievement Test-3... Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret individual achievement tests
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272,40 zł |
Educational Assessment : A Practical Introduction
ISBN: 9780471472483 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a practical approach, this book focuses on educational assessment as it is practiced today, in the actual world of classrooms, school systems, state departments, and national organizations. It first covers the basic concepts applicable to all types of assessment: statistical concepts, reliability, validity, and interpretive frameworks. Then it explores the preparation of teacher-made tests, standardized tests, and other important areas such as grading, legal issues, and evaluating one's own teaching.
Following a practical approach, this book focuses on educational assessment as it is practiced today, in the actual world of classrooms, school system...
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856,40 zł |
Truth in Grading: Troubling Issues with Learning Assessment
ISBN: 9780595316014 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past decade, an unprecedented trend toward accountability has emerged in American public education. With the advent of computerized grading, stakeholders often have instant access to student grades. Consequently, teacher grading practices are under intense scrutiny. Since 2004, Truth in Grading has been helping schools avoid problems and potentially serious consequences that can result from flawed or careless assessment practices. A practical guide, Truth in Grading assists educators in developing and improving learning assessment practices. "As our state moves forward with the...
In the past decade, an unprecedented trend toward accountability has emerged in American public education. With the advent of computerized grading, st...
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56,29 zł |
Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It
ISBN: 9780738204338 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other factor? And, most important, what can we do to hold one another accountable to standards at all levels of schools and in the workplace?Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to...
We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement...
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95,59 zł |
Testing: Friend or Foe?: Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing
ISBN: 9780750706148 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading.
Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issu...
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208,62 zł |
Testing: Friend or Foe?: Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing
ISBN: 9780750707299 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading.
Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issu...
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912,96 zł |
Developing Portfolios for Learning and Assessment: Processes and Principles
ISBN: 9780750709873 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The portfolio is a collection of work recording an individual's achievements over an extended period of time. They can be used at all stages of education and professional development and in a variety of ways, to show mastery of subject knowledge, for example, or to help the students develop reflective practice, assess their own progress, and ultimately find employment.
Val Klenowski provides educators, headteachers, teachers, pre-service teachers and students with an informative and practical guide on how to use portfolios for assessment and learning. She discusses and analyses the impact... The portfolio is a collection of work recording an individual's achievements over an extended period of time. They can be used at all stages of educat...
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245,14 zł |
Developing Portfolios for Learning and Assessment: Processes and Principles
ISBN: 9780750709880 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The portfolio is a collection of work recording an individual's achievements over an extended period of time. They can be used at all stages of education and professional development and in a variety of ways, to show mastery of subject knowledge, for example, or to help the students develop reflective practice, assess their own progress, and ultimately find employment.
Val Klenowski provides educators, headteachers, teachers, pre-service teachers and students with an informative and practical guide on how to use portfolios for assessment and learning. She discusses and analyses the impact... The portfolio is a collection of work recording an individual's achievements over an extended period of time. They can be used at all stages of educat...
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756,45 zł |
Understanding Assessment : Purposes, Perceptions, Practice
ISBN: 9780750709927 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first title in this new series, which is aimed principally at secondary PGCE and BAEd students and school and HEI-based tutors. Each book provides a digest of the central issues around a particular topic or issues, grounded in or supported by examples of good practice, with suggestions for further reading, study and investigation.
This is the first title in this new series, which is aimed principally at secondary PGCE and BAEd students and school and HEI-based tutors. Each book ...
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224,28 zł |
Test Anxiety: Applied Research, Assessment, and Treatment Interventions, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780761813866 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Test Anxiety adapts the previous edition to the influence of structural equations modeling that has taken hold of test anxiety research, while maintaining the applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions. This book integrates statistical methodology and research design with actual research situations that occur within the test anxiety area. It brings together more than 100 studies that have been published on test anxiety since 1993. Marty Sapp introduces the logics of structural equations and shows how the EQS structural equations program can easily perform structural equations...
Test Anxiety adapts the previous edition to the influence of structural equations modeling that has taken hold of test anxiety research, while maintai...
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590,48 zł |
Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning
ISBN: 9780761938712 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning. The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed l... |
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161,67 zł |
Assessing Students in Groups: Promoting Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability
ISBN: 9780761939467 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work. This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work. |
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365,19 zł |
Assessing Students in Groups: Promoting Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability
ISBN: 9780761939474 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work. This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work. |
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166,89 zł |
Raising Test Scores for All Students: An Administrator′s Guide to Improving Standardized Test Performance
ISBN: 9780761945277 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique resource marries knowledge about testing and test preparation with school improvement, providing a comprehensive guide for administrators. This unique resource marries knowledge about testing and test preparation with school improvement, providing a comprehensive guide for administrato... |
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276,50 zł |