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Distributed Leadership: Different Perspectives
ISBN: 9781402097362 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that the educational environment in many countries has shifted so dramatically and so permanently that we urgently need to re-consider what we understand by educational leadership and educational leadership practice. The book focuses on distributed leadership and focuses on the emerging evidence about the possibilities and shortcomings of this form of leadership. The book will draw upon the latest empirical findings from studies in different countries that have focused on the relationship between distributed forms of leadership and organisational change. The main aim of... This book argues that the educational environment in many countries has shifted so dramatically and so permanently that we urgently need to re-cons... |
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Creative Ideas for Teaching Evaluation: Activities, Assignments and Resources
ISBN: 9780792390213 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators. A few hardy souls gathered to exchange ideas on improving the teaching of evaluation. At subsequent annual meetings, these informal sessions attracted more and more participants, eager to talk about common teaching interests and to exchange reading lists, syllabuses, assignments, and paper topics. The ses sions were irreverent, innovative, lively, and unpredictable. Eventually the group for malized itself with the American Evaluation Association as the Topical Interest Group in the Teaching...
In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators. A few hardy souls gathered to exchange ideas on ...
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Formative Assessment for Secondary Science Teachers
ISBN: 9781412972215 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering physics/physical science, life science/biology, earth and space science, and chemistry, this research-based guide shows secondary teachers how to develop and use formative assessments to enhance learning in science.
Covering physics/physical science, life science/biology, earth and space science, and chemistry, this research-based guide shows secondary teachers ho...
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The Teacher′s Concise Guide to Functional Behavioral Assessment
ISBN: 9781412966054 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guidebook offers a practical overview for collecting data, understanding the underlying factors of challenging behaviors, and using evidence-based interventions to correct common classroom problems.
This guidebook offers a practical overview for collecting data, understanding the underlying factors of challenging behaviors, and using evidence-base...
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A Guide to College Writing Assessment
ISBN: 9780874217322 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical formulas associated with psychometrics. But understanding assessment theory and applying it by those who are not psychometricians is critical in developing useful, ethical assessments in college writing programs, and in interpreting and using assessment results.
"A Guide to College... While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals ofte...
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
ISBN: 9780307405395 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The most talked-about education book this semester." --New York Times
From the author of Coming Apart, and based on a series of controversial Wall Street Journal op-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to admit. With four truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America's educational establishment. -Ability varies. Children differ in their ability... "The most talked-about education book this semester." --New York Times
From the author of Coming Apart, and based on a series of con... |
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Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools?
ISBN: 9780674035461 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars for public schools, federal money and programs have been influencing every school in America. What has been accomplished in this extraordinary assertion of federal influence? What hasn't? Why not? With incisive clarity and wit, David K. Cohen and Susan L. Moffitt argue that enormous gaps existed between policies and programs and the real-world practices that they attempted to change. Learning and teaching are complicated and mysterious. So the...
American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars f...
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Cultural Validity in Assessment: Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9780415999793 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers - as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment - provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory, research, and practice. The book lays out criteria for culturally valid assessment and recommends specific strategies that teachers can use to design and implement culturally valid classroom assessments.
What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize asse...
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Activating Assessment for All Students: Innovative Activities, Lesson Plans, and Informative Assessment
ISBN: 9781607092087 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hamm and Adams present models to help teachers identify student learning problems--recognizing when to re-teach, when to move ahead, and when to explain or give more examples. Activating Assessment for All Students takes all of these into account when it provides differentiated science/math methods and goes on to suggest ways that formative assessment practices can inform differentiated teaching, learning, and assessment. These methods promote success for more students by helping teachers develop informative assessment for lessons and related tools for reaching the varying levels of student...
Hamm and Adams present models to help teachers identify student learning problems--recognizing when to re-teach, when to move ahead, and when to expla...
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A Teacher's Guide to Educational Assessment : Revised Edition
ISBN: 9789087909123 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a natural step beyond our earlier text A Teachers Guide to Assessment, which was published almost six years ago. The purpose of this book is to offer a straightforward guide to educational assessment for teachers at all levels of education, including trainers and instructors.
The scope of this book is wider, however, and the targeted audience is broader than the first edition. It is designed to address the needs not only of those taking a first course in educational assessment and measurement but it can also usefully serve students at the post-graduate level, as well as... This book is a natural step beyond our earlier text A Teachers Guide to Assessment, which was published almost six years ago. The purpose of this book...
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A Teacher's Guide to Educational Assessment : Revised Edition
ISBN: 9789087909130 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a natural step beyond our earlier text A Teachers Guide to Assessment, which was published almost six years ago. The purpose of this book is to offer a straightforward guide to educational assessment for teachers at all levels of education, including trainers and instructors.
The scope of this book is wider, however, and the targeted audience is broader than the first edition. It is designed to address the needs not only of those taking a first course in educational assessment and measurement but it can also usefully serve students at the post-graduate level, as well as... This book is a natural step beyond our earlier text A Teachers Guide to Assessment, which was published almost six years ago. The purpose of this book...
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Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning
ISBN: 9783642035814 / Angielski / Twarda / 533 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching. Ehlers and Schneckenberg present... More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learner... |
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The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications (Hc)
ISBN: 9781607522287 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best and brightest people in assessment have contributed their thinking to this problem and the fact that they have not agreed is testimony to the complexity and importance of validity. Even today, ways to define validity are being debated in the published literature in the assessment profession. How can such a fundamental concept...
Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning ...
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The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications (PB)
ISBN: 9781607522270 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best and brightest people in assessment have contributed their thinking to this problem and the fact that they have not agreed is testimony to the complexity and importance of validity. Even today, ways to define validity are being debated in the published literature in the assessment profession. How can such a fundamental concept...
Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning ...
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Everyone Can!: Skill Development and Assessment in Elementary Physical Education [With Free Web Access]
ISBN: 9780736062121 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Physical educators are facing increasing demands for accountability while being asked to address the needs of increasingly more diverse classes of students. Unfortunately, many physical education curricula use a one-size-fits-all approach that does not allow teachers to adequately address those needs. This leaves many physical educators frustrated and overworked as they try to make do with a curriculum that really doesn't work. Enter Everyone Can : Skill Development and Assessment in Elementary Physical Education. This book and Web site package offers a wealth of information...
Physical educators are facing increasing demands for accountability while being asked to address the needs of increasingly more diverse classes of stu...
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Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment
ISBN: 9781412979795 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With plain language and practical examples, Popham covers key understandings for school leaders, including validity, formative assessment, interpreting test results, instructional sensitivity, and more.
With plain language and practical examples, Popham covers key understandings for school leaders, including validity, formative assessment, interpretin...
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What's Wrong with Our Schools: and How We Can Fix Them
ISBN: 9781607091585 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education. The language is straightforward, the case studies based on real events, and the research evidence clearly presented. For more information, visit www.fixingourschools.com.
This book examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many school...
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Bayesian Item Response Modeling: Theory and Applications
ISBN: 9781441907417 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory. The eld of inquiry of item response theory has become very large and shows the enormous progress that has been made. The mainstream literature is focused on frequentist statistical methods for - timating model parameters and evaluating model t. However, the Bayesian methodology has shown great potential, particularly for making further - provements in the statistical modeling process. The Bayesian approach has two important features that make it attractive for modeling item response...
The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory. The eld of inquiry of item response th...
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Linking Authentic Assessment and Early Childhood Intervention: Best Measures for Best Practices, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781598570472 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can early childhood professionals make informed decisions while selecting assessment materials that meet recommended practices? Use the NEW edition of this essential reference, the only book with professional ratings and reviews of 80 authentic, widely used assessment tools for children birth-8.
Completely revamped and even more user-friendly than its popular first edition, this must-have guide provides ratings of the qualities of assessment materials based on:
How can early childhood professionals make informed decisions while selecting assessment materials that meet recommended practices? Use the NEW editio...
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Coming to Terms with Student Outcomes Assessment: Faculty and Administrators' Journeys to Integrating Assessment in Their Work and Institutional Cultu
ISBN: 9781579224349 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Assessment on college campuses has a sordid history, and it is fairly simple to find someone with a traumatic tale to tell. It is wise to respect that that reputation is deserved.-
-How do you modify the inner workings and culture of a massive institution with minimal resources and even less authority (other than GE course approvals), and thousands and thousands of talented people busy doing other things?- -The road to departmental assessment can seem both dramatic and apocalyptic, especially if one's departmental 'centre cannot hold, ' and purpose falls apart. The... -Assessment on college campuses has a sordid history, and it is fairly simple to find someone with a traumatic tale to tell. It is wise to respect ...
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