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  • Beyond Testing

    Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests

    The authors of this timely book argue that a fundamentally complex problem—how to assess the knowledge of a child—cannot be reduced to a simple test score. Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results: (1) student self-assessments, (2) direct teacher observations of students and their work, (3) descriptive reviews of the child, (4) ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Improving Teacher Evaluation Systems

    Making the Most of Multiple Measures

    This is the first book to gather and address what we have learned about the impacts and challenges of data-intensive teacher evaluation systems—a defining characteristic of the current education policy landscape. Book Features:Contributions by scholars working at the cutting edge of research and pioneering leaders directly involved in the implementation of teacher evaluation systems.Examination of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mechanical, Spatial & Abstract Reasoning

    This text provides an overview of key principles relating to mechanical, spatial and abstract thought.The aim is to facilitate the following learning outcomes.+ Identify individual elements within a group of elements;+ Identify a rule connecting a set of figures;+ Complete a number of test questions by applying a rule connecting a set of figures;+ Apply techniques aimed at increasing the spee... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture

    Series series The Teaching for Social Justice Series
    In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates how current trends, like market-based reforms and fast-track teacher certification programs are ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Understanding Education Indicators

    A Practical Primer for Research and Policy

    In the push to bring data to bear on all of the important education issues of the day, one essential fact is often overlooked: Not all indicators are created equal. This bookprovides a comprehensive approach for understanding how statistical measures of achievement are developed, evaluated, and interpreted. Given the extent to which accountability measures determine outcomes for schools and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Path to Get There

    a Common Core Road Map for Higher Student Achievement Across the Disciplines

    The Common Core State Standards represents a call for all teachers to focus on the literacy learning of their students. Together, these skills—reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing—comprise the literacies that students must develop if they are to master content and be successful in college or the workplace. This book will assist content-area teachers in understanding the Common Core ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Assessing the Educational Data Movement

    Series series Technology, Education--Connections (TEC) Series
    For better or worse, many educational decisions that were once handled on a personal level by teachers or administrators now increasingly rely upon data and information. To be successful in this era, educators need to understand this broad sociotechnical revolution and how it is realigning traditional roles and responsibilities. In this book, the author draws on his unique background in learning ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ways of Assessing Children and Curriculum

    Stories of Early Childhood Practice

    Edited by Celia Genishi ...
    This text is a response to the increasingly widespread practice of administering standardised tests to preschool and primary-grade children. As Celia Genishi points out, such traditional tests are often misused and fail to measure many significant aspects of children’s growth and learning. Here she and her colleagues present teachers’ alternative ways of meeting the need for the assessment of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Classroom Observer

    Developing Observation Skills in Early Childhood Settings

    Systematic observation is essential for educators to evaluate properly the effectiveness of curricula and to address the problems of individual students. This new third edition emphasizes early childhood, and focuses on those skills that will enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences and to arrive at decisions based on objective observation data gathered in natural learning ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Mixed Methods Research

    Merging Theory with Practice

    This accessibly written book is ideal for use in graduate courses or by practicing researchers and evaluators. The author puts the research problem at center stage, showing how mixed methods designs can fruitfully address different types of research questions. She illustrates the discussion with examples of mixed methods studies from a variety of disciplines and qualitative approaches ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps

    The Silver Bullet

    by Gary W. Quinn ...
    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 from the top, and the focus on the plan. A school district must make a decision to create this ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Ethnography Essentials

    Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research

    Series Book 25 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing and proposing a topic and selecting a research design. It describes methods of data collection (taking notes, participant observation, interviewing, identifying themes and issues, creating ethnographic maps and tables and charts, and referring to ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge

    What is knowledge? How can it be successfully assessed? How can we best use the results? As questions such as these continue to be discussed and the learning sciences continue to deal with expanding amounts of data, the challenge of applying theory to diagnostic methods takes on more complexity.Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge meets this challenge head-on as an ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas

    English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas, Judie Haynes and Debbie Zacarian offer strategies, tools, and tips that teachers can use to help ELLs at all levels flourish in mainstream classrooms. This book will show teachers how to* ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Assessment for Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage

    Are you struggling with the complexities of assessment? Demystifying the process of assessment for learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), this book explains in straightforward language how to put principles into practice.Looking at models of assessment, the book draws heavily on examples of real assessments from practice, and the relevant theory is explained in context. Lessons from ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative

    From Formative to Summative

    by Kay Burke ...
    Series series Leading Edge
    Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Strategic Priorities for School Improvement

    No. 6 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series

    Series Book 6 - HEL Spotlight Series
    Organized around the four key areas outlined in the U. S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top program, Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve learning; recruiting and retaining great teachers and leaders; and turning around failing schools.Contributors include Karin Chenoweth, Stacey Childress, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research

    Studying How Things Work

    This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Medical Teaching

    Few faculty members in academic medical centres are formally prepared for their roles as teachers. This work is an introductory text designed to provide medical teachers with the core concepts of effective teaching practice and information about innovations for curriculum design, delivery, and assessment. It offers brief, focused chapters with content that is easily assimilated by the reader. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Changing Cultures in Higher Education

    Moving Ahead to Future Learning

    More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. However, practices of strategic innovation ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

    Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

    Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter and avoids talking about teacher reflection generically, which implies that all kinds of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Changing Educational Landscapes

    Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective

    Edited by Dimitris Mattheou ...
    Analyzing educational landscapes – the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector – is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project

    Series Book 17 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    Designing and Conducting Your First Interview ProjectUsing a clear, easily followed approach, Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project helps anyone new to the process develop the skills to conduct the most essential part of social research data collection: the interview. The book also shows how to organize, analyze, and interpret the data.This workbook provides a step-by-step template ... Read more

    $46.00 USD