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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Simplifying Common Assessment
A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work™ [how teadchers can develop effective and efficient assessments
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work™, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common...
Common Sense Questions about Tests
The Answers Can Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized...
Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps
The Silver Bullet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement is determined by various variables, including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision...
The Critical Assessment of Research
Traditional and New Methods of Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
This book examines the following factors: sponsorship of research, control of the dissemination of research, effects of dominant research paradigms, financial interests of authors, publishers, and editors, role of new technologies (for example, Web 2.0).
It is widely accepted among researchers...
by Lorin W. Anderson, Sid F. Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The affective realm is a critical, but often forgotten, aspect of schooling. The development of character and the formation of appropriate learning environments rely to a large extent on understanding the affective nature of students. Even when the focus is on cognitive achievement, affect has a role...
by Hazel Pennell, Anne West
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
There is greater pressure for schools to meet certain levels of pupil achievement now more than ever before. Teachers and policy-makers are looking for ways to ensure pupils are not underachieving, and to do this must have some understanding of the causes of underachievement.
This timely book...
The Infrastructure of Accountability
Data Use and the Transformation of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Infrastructure of Accountability brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education.
Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have...
How to Pass Selection Tests
Essential Preparation for Numerical Verbal Clerical and IT Tests
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
How to Pass Selection Tests provides all the expert advice and practice material needed to improve a score in selection tests. Full of numerical, verbal and clerical practice tests, it also gives guidance on why employers use tests, the most common types of test, how to improve chances of success...
The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook
Essential Preparation for Quantative Reasoning, Data Interpretation and Verbal Reasoning Tests
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2011
Employers want to fill their top management posts with candidates of the highest calibre. Any mistake in their recruitment process can mean wasteful costs in both time and money. Consequently, recruitment to any management post is by rigorous selection, often including a range of psychometric tests.
The...
How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests
Essential Preparation for Numerical and Verbal Ability Tests Plus Personality Questionnaires
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests provides a huge bank of questions as well as advice and practice exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence.
Covering a range of numerical and verbal skills, it provides...
The Complete Personality Assessment
Psychometric Tests to Reveal Your True Potential
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
How can you discover where your true potential lies? Is it possible to balance work and life more effectively? What has been holding you back? The Complete Personality Assessment uses psychometric and analytical techniques to help you answer all of these questions and more. Consisting of a series...
by John Gahan, LCGI
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Autism is a lifelong neuro-developmental disability that affects the development of the brain in areas of social interaction and communication. People with autism have difficulties in communicating and forming relationships with people, in developing language and in using abstract concepts. ...
by Nancy Mather, Barbara J. Wendling
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively understand, assess, and treat individuals struggling with dyslexia
Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention provides practical, step-by-step information on accurately identifying, assessing, and using evidence-based...