Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by Thomas M. Haladyna, Michael C. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process. As they grow in importance and use, testing programs increasingly supplement the use of selected-response (multiple-choice) items with constructed-response...
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Published under the Sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected...
by Paul Castle, Scott Buckler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Psychology for Teachers explains how psychology can be intelligently applied to the classroom to meet the needs of different learners. It encourages teachers to review their own practice to develop a personal teaching style, supported by research findings and an awareness of the factors underpinning...
Teaching and Learning from Within
A Core Reflection Approach to Quality and Inspiration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Teaching and Learning from Within brings together theory, research, and practice on core reflection, an approach that focuses on people’s strengths as the springboard for personal growth and serves every human being involved in education–including students, teachers, school principals, and university...
Philosophy of Education
Introductory Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Revised and updated with 25 new essays, the fourth edition of this bestselling collection brings together more than 30 leaders in the field of educational theory. An engaging exploration of the ideas and trends shaping education in today’s classrooms, Philosophy of Education includes topics on high-stakes...
Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World
Social Change Through the Cultural Professions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social agenda of ‘action research’,...
Psychological and Social Measurement
The Career and Contributions of Benjamin D. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades. Wright is recognized as the foremost proponent of the psychometric approach of Georg Rasch, a Danish mathematician,...
Studies in Expansive Learning
Learning What Is Not Yet There
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Yrjö Engeström's exciting approach sees expansive learning as the central mechanism of transformation in societal practices and institutions. For researchers and practitioners in education, this book provides a conceptual and practical toolkit for creating and analyzing expansive learning processes...
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current...
Leading for Powerful Learning
A Guide for Instructional Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Supporting teacher learning is a complicated and challenging task. This much-awaited book offers a practical, research-based framework for thinking about instructional leadership, along with the necessary resources and tools for improving practice. The authors identify specific structures, formats,...
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV
The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education, as well as a clear indication of how different theories and models interrelate. Significant changes have occurred in...
Curriculum Epistemicide
Towards An Itinerant Curriculum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Around the world, curriculum – hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities – has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and practices. Drawing from and within a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern...
Education and the Production of Space
Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Emerging from a radical pedagogical tradition, Education and the Production of Space deepens and extends Henri Lefebvre’s insights on revolutionary praxis by revealing the intimate relationship between education and the production of space. Synthesizing educational theory, Marxist theory, and critical...
Academic Ableism
Disability and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay...