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Rigor and Differentiation in the Classroom
Tools and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Learn how to differentiate instruction while maintaining a rigorous learning environment. In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn shows that the differentiated classroom doesn’t mean extra work for top students and easy work for others; instead, you can have high expectations for...
Advances in Personality Assessment
Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In keeping with the goals of this series, which are to facilitate the rapid dissemination of important new developments in theory and research on all aspects of personality assessment, the eight chapters in this volume examine a wide range of topics. These include research investigations and clinical...
Advances in Personality Assessment
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in the year 1983, Advances in Personality Assessment is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology.
Advances in Personality Assessment
Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Personality (Psychology Revivals)
Measurement and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality.
The student...
Using Rubrics for Performance-Based Assessment
A Practical Guide to Evaluating Student Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Writing a rubric that can accurately evaluate student work can be tricky. Rather than a single right or wrong answer, rubrics leave room for interpretation and thus subjectivity. How does a teacher who wants to use performance-based assessment in this day and age of SMART goals find a way to reliably...
by Carol Turkington, Kristin B. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math. Yet the core math skills acquired in the first four years of school form the basis of all future academic success. Get Ready for Standardized Tests, the first and only grade-specific test prep series,...
Designing and Using Performance Tasks
Enhancing Student Learning and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Stretch student thinking with performance-based tasks.
With the continual increase of high-stakes assessments also comes the surge of professional development on designing performance-based tasks. Providing step-by-step insights, this book shows you how to incorporate performance tasks as a...
Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Modelling
A Student's Introduction to Methods and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
"For the neuroscientist or psychologist who cringes at the sight of mathematical formulae and whose eyes glaze over at terms like differential equations, linear algebra, vectors, matrices, Bayes’ rule, and Boolean logic, this book just might be the therapy needed."
- Anjan Chatterjee,...
Teacher Evaluation
Guide to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice is organized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professional standards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee's Standards, ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these selected models. The...
Unlearned Lessons
Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools' Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"“Why is it,” writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, “that today’s educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors’ blunders?” Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key “unlearned lessons” in education...
by Heidi L. Andrade, Margaret Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
There is convincing evidence that carefully applied classroom assessments can promote student learning and academic self-regulation. These assessments include, but are not limited to, conversations with students, diagnostic test items, and co-created rubrics used to guide feedback for students themselves...
by Hedwig Teglasi
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret a variety of storytelling techniques
Storytelling techniques are a popular projective approach for assessing many aspects of a person's personality, such as cognitive processes, emotional functioning,...
Grading for Impact
Raising Student Achievement Through a Target-Based Assessment and Learning System
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Aim for a target-based grading system and create stronger learning opportunities!
As grading, assessment, and reporting continue to be a relevant topic of discussion, this book creates a functional plan to move standards-based grading practices forward in schools. Teachers and teacher leaders...