Evaluation category: 669 books
The One-Stop Guide to Implementing RTI
Academic and Behavioral Interventions, K-12
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Use this nuts-and-bolts guide to implement RTI schoolwide and help all your students succeed!
Concise and reader-friendly, this resource walks administrators and teachers through the complete process of implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in classrooms and schoolwide. Packed with how-to’s...
by Richard Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In a sequence of observations of six children aged 5-11 in six different state schools this book offers a slice of classroom life, a microcosm of the educational scene. Since the book was first written there have been many changes in the curriculum, structure, governance and funding of British primary...
Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use in Reading Comprehension
A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach. With a large sample of Chinese college-level test takers, the book investigates the underlying structure of the EFL reading test....
Making Summer Count
How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Research has shown that students' skills and knowledge often deteriorate during the summer months, with low-income students facing the largest losses. School districts and summer programming providers can benefit from the lessons learned by other programs in terms of developing strategies to maximize...
by Marion Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Master the essentials of the English language and write with greater confidence.
Your Phd Companion
The Insider Guide to Mastering the Practical Realities of Getting Your PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book guides you through doctoral study from the student's point of view - the challenges, pitfalls, and ups and downs that you're likely to encounter in the course of your PhD. Inside you'll find: - Advice on doing research - Examples of PhD problems and their resolution - Reflections on life...
by James H. McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Being wrong is an integral part of the assessment process, and understanding how to learn from those mistakes, errors, and misconceptions helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience. In this practical volume, James H. McMillan shows why being wrong (sometimes) is an essential...
Competence Assessment in Education
Research, Models and Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which...
Changing Assessments
Alternative Views of Aptitude, Achievement and Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Bernard R. Gifford As we edge toward the year 2000, the information age is a reality; the global marketplace is increasingly competitive; and the U.S. labor force is shrinking. Today more than ever, our nation's economic and social well-being hinges on our ability to tap our human resources-to identify...
Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment
A Practical Handbook A Volume in the EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children. Written by key individuals involved in the construction and evolution of the most widely...
Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum
Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this booktakes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control...
by Susan M. Brookhart
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to “What did students learn, and how well?” In How to Use Grading to Improve Learning, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart guides educators at all levels in figuring out how to produce grades—for single assignments and report cards—that accurately...
by Susan J. Bodilly, Rita Karam, Nate Orr
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
The Ford Foundation's Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative (CERI) provided grantees with funds, guidance, and technical assistance to develop collaboratives and carry out activities to improve teaching and learning. A second effort, CERI 2, laid down a new set of goals for grantees. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated the initiative.
by Sandra Figueiredo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups. Especially in the European context this study fills a gap in examining the effects that schools have on these students’ performance and performance differentiation,...