Evaluation category: 669 books
No One Left Standing
Will the Rewrite of NCLB be Enough?
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Every public school student in the U.S. will experience various types of testing each year. For decades, the purpose and quality of such testing, the time it takes to administer and take the test and how the data is used are the topic of discussion among students, parents, educators and policymakers....
by Tamar Horowitz, Shmuel Shamai, Zinaida Ilatov
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Initially focused on children from the former Soviet Union, the Mofet Association went on to become an extensive network of schools serving...
Empowering Excellence
Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
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,...
Who's the New Kid in Chemistry?
Exploring Uncharted Waters
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Who’s the New Kid in Chemistry? offers an unprecedented look at student engagement and teacher best practices through the eyes of an educational researcher enrolled as a public high school student. Over the course of seventy-nine consecutive days, John D. Butler participates in and observes Rhode...
Peace Jobs
A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefit from this book. A major feature of the book...
by George D. Kuh, Stanley O. Ikenberry, Timothy Reese Cain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
American higher education needs a major reframing of student learning outcomes assessment
Dynamic changes are underway in American higher education. New providers, emerging technologies, cost concerns, student debt, and nagging doubts about quality all call out the need for institutions to...
by Bill Boyle, Marie Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
'A unique blend of scholarly research-based principles of effective formative assessment with practical suggestions for use in the classroom. The authors show how the essence of formative assessment is in teachers' responses to the substance students' understandings, with a focus on how teachers can...
by Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need...
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Methods and Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
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....
WISC-V Assessment and Interpretation
Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale is the most widely used intelligence test for children worldwide. WISC-V introduces new subtests, composite scores, process scores, error scores, and scaled scores as a more complex and accurate means of assessing cognitive abilities. WISC-V Assessment and Interpretation...
The Sociocultural Activity of High Stakes Standardised Language Testing
TOEIC Washback in a South Korean Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea. South Korea is regarded as a shining example of success in educational achievement and, as this book reveals, pressurised standardised testing has been a major contributing factor to its success....
Straitjacket
How Overregulation Stifles Creativity and Innovation in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through overregulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence...
by Kevin K. Kumashiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates...