Evaluation category: 669 books
by W. Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities. Implementing high-performing PLCs can enhance educators’ outlooks and dramatically improve learning for all students. With this user-friendly guide, your team will discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to...
by Linda Dacey
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this engaging resource for third grade provides effective, research-based strategies to help teachers differentiate problem solving in the classroom. It includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process,...
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Outcomes
A Festschrift in Honour of Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend. While the construction of educational measures and use of educational...
Child Observation for the Early Years
9780857257451
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This is a key text for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for candidates on EYPS pathways. It enables students to appreciate the central role of observation for understanding, planning for and educating early years children....
Dissemination of Innovation (RLE Edu O)
The Humanities Curriculum Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This volume of topical working papers makes available to teachers and to others information intended to stimulate discussion so that all educators may bring their judgement and experience to bear on the concerns of the School Council and contribute to its work. The papers describe plans for curriculum...
Designing Effective Assessments
Accurately measure students’ mastery of 21st century skills (Learn how teachers can better incorporate grading into the teaching and learning process)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Assessment is a critical component of effective teaching and learning. To gain valuable assessment data and make effective use of them, educators must have the right tools in place to create quality assessments. Designed specifically for K–12 educators, this title presents ten key assessment design...
by Lois Ruth Harris, Gavin T.L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Using Self-Assessment to Improve Student Learning synthesizes research on self-assessment and translates it into actionable guidelines and principles for pre-service and in-service teachers and for school leaders, teacher educators, and researchers. Situated beyond the simple how-to frameworks currently...
Burning Cash
How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer. Unsurprisingly, flashy and expensive school improvement initiatives that promise quick fix solutions have become pervasively en vogue across...
by Lynda Rice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Take the mystery out of assessment and understand how to successfully implement it into instruction! This comprehensive guide will give you the tools to effectively implement assessment in the classroom and empower you to use assessment more effectively in order to inform and strengthen instruction....
by Peter Baldock
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This work is designed for those needing to understand and comply with regulations for childhood education and care. The author relates his text to the new framework resulting from the Government's developing National Child Care Strategy.
Specifically, it reflects the transfer of responsibility...
by Adrian Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions. The author outlines the key elements of this theory and identifies problematical structures that affect the linguistic validity of such education assessment questions....
by Neville Bennett, Charles Desforges, Anne Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Very little is known about the quality of the learning experiences provided for pupils. This book contains the results of a major research project, conducted in a sample of English primary schools, in which particular attention was paid to the tasks children were assigned, to the degree of match between...
by Dr. Maura Sellars
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Reflective Practice for Teachers explores a range of key issues that you will need to engage with during your teacher preparation and early career in the classroom in order to deepen your understanding of teaching practice. Case studies and ‘What does this mean for you?’ boxes in every chapter...
Closing the Gap between Risk and Resilience
How Struggling Learners Can Cope with the Common Core State Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Although there has been considerable interest and concern surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards. This text offers lesson plans, realistic...