Testing category: 779 books
Psychology and Gender Dysphoria
Feminist and Transgender Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Psychiatry and psychology have a long and highly debated history in relation to gender. In particular, they have attracted criticism for policing the boundaries of ‘normal’ gender expression through gender identity diagnoses, such as transvestism, transsexualism, gender identity disorder and gender...
Formative Assessment
Making It Happen in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
A practical, in-depth guide to implementing formative assessment in your classroom!
Formative assessment allows teachers to identify and close gaps in student understanding and move learning forward. This research-based book walks readers through every step of the process and offers illustrative...
Data Literacy for Educators
Making It Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Data literacy has become an essential skill set for teachers as education becomes more of an evidence-based profession. Teachers in all stages of professional growth need to learn how to use data effectively and responsibly to inform their teaching practices. This groundbreaking resource describes...
Organic Writing Assessment
Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s...
Cracking the Praxis Tests (Core Academic Skills + Subject Assessments + PLT Exams), 3rd Edition
The Strategies, Practice, and Review You Need to Help Get a Higher Score
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
THE REVIEW YOU NEED FOR THE PRAXIS SCORE YOU WANT. Complete with 6 practice tests, Cracking the Praxis brings you focused content review, practice questions and drills, and free online content to help you master the Praxis Core, key Subject Assessments, and the Principles of Learning and Teaching...
smarTEST Prep
Guide to LSAT Logic Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
smarTEST Prep: Guide to LSAT Logic Games presents a standardized and methodical approach to conquering the Logic Games section of the LSAT. This book helps readers to understand the fundamentals of logic games and how to properly diagram their solutions. Featuring innovative strategies to increase...
inFormative Assessment
When It's Not About a Grade
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
In a nutshell, this resource examines how Routine inFormative Assessments, Reflective inFormative Assessments, and Rigorous inFormative Assessments can inform and improve teaching practices and student learning.
Success in School and Career
Common Core Standards in Language Arts K-5
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Success in School and Career: Common Core Standards in Language Arts K−5 provides kindergarten through grade-five educators and school and district administrators with historical perspectives that shaped the Common Core State Standards. In addition, this book provides a rich resource that explains...
by Kristin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Take the mystery out of multi-step, higher-level problems with the 180 Days of Problem Solving e-Book. With the changes in math standards, teachers need an easy-to-use classroom resource to equip them with lessons and strategies to delve deeper so students gain a better understanding of how these...
by Laura Stradley, Robin Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
You know you cannot "fail" the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), but if you're planning a career in the military, you'll want to prepare before taking these mandatory exams.
The Pocket Idiot's Guide™ to the ASVAB will show you the lay of the land and help you plot...
Tested
One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost...
by Rosalie Hutton, Glenn Hutton, Fraser Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
This Third Edition provides a comprehensive and fully up to date guide for all those preparing to sit the National Admissions Test for Law. It has been thoroughly revised to take account of the recent changes to the test and to reflect the latest advice and guidance relevant for candidates. Readers...
by Nidhi Khattri, Alison L. Reeve, Michael B. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--state, district, school, and teacher--the shapes these assessments take and the affects they have at the classroom level can differ significantly from one...
Assessment as Learning
Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning!
Using clear explanations and poignant cases, this timely resource shows how formative assessment can be used to understand student beliefs, inform classroom instruction, and encourage student reflection. Fully revised, this...