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Assessment: Social Practice and Social Product
ISBN: 9780415227827 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, economic and cultural expectations for change. Increasingly, governments worldwide have become aware that curricula and teachers can be indirectly controlled through programmes of assessment. Opponents of centralized systems of mass assessment claim they are ill-suited to the diverse and changing needs of learners and users of assessment. In this text, the UK and US writers take the reader beyond the obvious functions of assessment, and focus upon...
Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, econ...
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878,00 zł |
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Assessment: Social Practice and Social Product
ISBN: 9780415227834 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, economic and cultural expectations for change. Increasingly, governments worldwide have become aware that curricula and teachers can be indirectly controlled through programmes of assessment. Opponents of centralized systems of mass assessment claim they are ill-suited to the diverse and changing needs of learners and users of assessment. In this text, the UK and US writers take the reader beyond the obvious functions of assessment, and focus upon...
Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, econ...
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243,84 zł |
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Meeting the Standards in Secondary Science: A Guide to the ITT NC
ISBN: 9780415230919 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is increasing pressure on students training to be secondary teac hers to develop their subject expertise and classroom competence in a short space of time. All students on secondary initial teacher trainin g programs must meet the requirements of the National Curriculum relat ing to science knowledge and subject application. Meeting the standard s in secondary science provides the pedagogical knowledge needed to te ach science in secondary schools. Chapters explicitly linked to blocks of curriculum requirements support activities for work in schools and self study information on...
There is increasing pressure on students training to be secondary teac hers to develop their subject expertise and classroom competence in a short spa...
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136,53 zł |
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Assessment: What's in It for Schools?
ISBN: 9780415235914 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. Unlike other books on the market, this one summarizes theory and shows how it can be best put into practice, using as little jargon as possible. Some of the issues discussed in this text include: * how assessment can erode self-esteem and motivation There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking ... |
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707,28 zł |
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Assessment: What's in It for Schools?
ISBN: 9780415235921 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. Unlike other books on the market, this one summarizes theory and shows how it can be best put into practice, using as little jargon as possible. Some of the issues discussed in this text include: * how assessment can erode self-esteem and motivation There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking ... |
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160,92 zł |
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Benchmarking for School Improvement: A Practical Guide for Comparing and Achieving Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780415256667 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whereas a business can measure its effectiveness by reference to the profits it makes or fails to make, a school or college is a more difficult enterprise in which to gauge the extent to which the institution has achieved its aims. Current OFSTED inspections judge schools against national or local averages, whereas businesses judge themselves against the best business. This practical guide helps senior management teams of schools or colleges, to undertake their own benchmarking, with an aim to increase effectiveness and improvement. Tony Kelly looks at the different types of benchmarking and...
Whereas a business can measure its effectiveness by reference to the profits it makes or fails to make, a school or college is a more difficult enterp...
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243,84 zł |
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Comparing Learning Outcomes: International Assessment and Education Policy
ISBN: 9780415304191 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing Learning Outcomes provides an insider's look at the policy and practical issues in conducting and using the information from international assessments of education and is a key resource for researchers and policymakers in education. This book covers a variety of important topics related to international comparative assessment including: History of international assessment, the factors contributing to its growth and the impacts of such growth; What it means to assess different domains; How information form international assessments has been used by policy makers in different...
Comparing Learning Outcomes provides an insider's look at the policy and practical issues in conducting and using the information from international a...
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707,28 zł |
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Intelligence, Destiny and Education: The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing
ISBN: 9780415368926 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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926,78 zł |
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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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268,23 zł |
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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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707,28 zł |
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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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287,74 zł |
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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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195,06 zł |
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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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658,50 zł |
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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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185,30 zł |
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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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240,82 zł |
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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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800,73 zł |
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A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners
ISBN: 9780472032013 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom teachers become more comfortable creating and using assessments. A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners provides helpful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. The text focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessments--usefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and security--and techniques for...
For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminol...
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128,11 zł |
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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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49,77 zł |
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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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84,50 zł |
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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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204,81 zł |
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