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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement; this has turned the...
by Daniel L. Duke, Pamela D. Tucker, Michael J. Salmonowicz
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers. Teachers, however, are the individuals expected to conduct the “heavy lifting” of school improvement. Teachers’ Guide to School Improvement is the first book on the subject written...
Uneducated Guesses
Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of...
WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, and ACS
Advanced Clinical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation. The book offers sophisticated users of the WAIS-IV and...
Excel 2016 in Applied Statistics for High School Students
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, or undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems. All of the statistics problems in this book will come from the following fields of study:...
Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness
Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an educational system is high or low performing. The chapters,...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education
A Meta-Analysis of Programs That Provide Education to Incarcerated Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education...
by Jennifer Sloan McCombs, John F. Pane, Catherine H. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Learning environments continue to change considerably and is no longer confined to the face-to-face classroom setting. As learning options have evolved, educators must adopt a variety of pedagogical strategies and innovative technologies to enable learning. Practical Applications and Experiences in...
Summer versus School
The Possibilities of the Year-Round School
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
As American educational reformers continue to find innovative ways to address the global achievement gap, many experts seem to agree that increasing instructional time is a viable option. In addition to extending the school day, some educational leaders have looked to modifying the traditional academic...
The Gatekeepers
Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit...
Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis
Data Visualization, Spatialization, and Multidimensionality
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
With higher education turning towards data analytics as the next big advance in technology, it is important to look at how information is gathered and visualized for accurate comprehension, analysis, and decision-making. Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis: Data Visualization,...
Applying Test Equating Methods
Using R
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice. The non-commercial software R is used throughout the book to illustrate how to perform different equating methods when scores data are collected under different data collection designs, such as equivalent groups design, single group...
Teacher Learning with Classroom Assessment
Perspectives from Asia Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book discusses the interwoven themes of teacher learning and classroom assessment, highlighting the complexity and intricacy of these processes in a range of very different classroom contexts. The case studies demonstrate how classroom assessment is needed for teachers to learn about teaching...