Evaluation & Assessment

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643174877Author Megan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 508g

This is the follow-up book to the Corwin "best seller" Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools. Whereas Using Equity Audits was written mainly for school leaders, this book, Equity Audits for Teachers: Creating Equitable...

This volume builds a conceptual basis for assessment promoting learning in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms and proposes practical assessment approaches and activities that CLIL teachers can apply in the classroom. CLIL as an...

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators. Using a theoretical argument supplemented with statistical...

The Complete Guide to RTI offers a toolbox of strategies, techniques, checklists, etc, as well as technology and print resources, for introducing RTI to educators. Readers gain sufficient foundational and theoretical understanding with regard to why RTI...

This book explores meaningful and effective use of student voice in urban school renewal efforts through strategies that include: surveys, interviews, focus groups, visual and video projects, social media, and student participation in governance...

What goals should be addressed by educational programs? What priorities should be assigned to the different goals? What funds should be allocated to each goal? How can quality services be maintained with declining school enrollments and shrinking...

While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved. The purposes of...

When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868930676Author Gowri M VemuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Math-Knots LLCPublisher Math-Knots LLCWeight(grams) 1352g

Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "truths" about how to make sense out of testing results, artful wisdoms that appear to have held away largely by force of habit alone. Practitioners and...

Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems. This book brings together research-based evidence on the effectiveness of major...

This book explores new modes, spaces and relations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s global educational governance associated with the PISA for Schools test. Adopting a theoretically-rich policy sociology approach,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636202044Author Michael SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Math NotionPublisher Math NotionWeight(grams) 708g

In an age that dictates accountability and verifiability of educational programs, institutions of higher education are called on to justify their programs. To meet these demands, there is a need for improved methods for the evaluation of teacher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401572613Author Robert K. GableFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 323g

This book consists of 13 papers developed by participants in the ICME 13 Topic Study Group 40 on Classroom Assessment. The individual papers discuss various aspects of classroom assessment, focusing particularly on formative assessment as assessment for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215598887Author Daniel CovingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Daniel CovingtonPublisher Daniel CovingtonWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401167598Author Robert O. BrinkerhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 489g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636202051Author Michael SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Math NotionPublisher Math NotionWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889865278Author Dr MeenakshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215042267Author Olivier RebiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Cristina RebierePublisher Cristina RebiereWeight(grams) 95g

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...

This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical...

Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment...

Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity,...

This book discusses Hong Kong's use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations. Given that Hong Kong leads the way in OSM innovation, this book has arisen from a recognised need to provide a comprehensive, coherent account of the findings of...

Today we are seeing a new form of blended learning: not only is technology enhancing the learning environment but formal and informal learning are combining and there is self- and peer-assessment of results. Open learning cultures are challenging the old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631353130Author Ed D Ph D Abigail Stahl McNameeFormat PaperbackImprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book...

This book discusses the interwoven themes of teacher learning and classroom assessment, highlighting the complexity and intricacy of these processes in a range of very different classroom contexts. The case studies demonstrate how classroom assessment is...

This book discusses teacher evaluation and how it can provide the foundations for professional development. The editors and contributors illustrate how teachers with varying levels of expertise, experience and learning needs can benefit from...

This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research...

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers...

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers...

Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over night. Centuries usually intervene in the process. Even minor shifts admitting alternative world views...

This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, the origins of PISA's concept of mathematical literacy are discussed, highlighting...

'A unique blend of scholarly research-based principles of effective formative assessment with practical suggestions for use in the classroom. The authors show how the essence of formative assessment is in teachers' responses to the substance students'...

This book examines the mathematics achievement of immigrant students on the basis of data from the IEA Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). It combines an analysis of large-scale assessment data with an in-depth exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733239073Author Ken O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint First Educational Resources, LLCPublisher First Educational Resources, LLCWeight(grams)...

The Race To The Top (RTTP) federal education policy fostered a new generation of state tests. This policy advocated adopting common core standards which set a higher level of learning targets for students in the US K-12 education. These standards are...