Evaluation & Assessment

First published in 1994, Making the Most of your Inspection is written from the school's viewpoint in an attempt to dispel hearsay and prejudice regarding school inspections, and to encourage the school staff to approach the event in a positive frame of...

An essential resource on effective language assessment, invaluable for a new generation of teachers and education researchers A Practical Guide to Language Assessment helps educators at every level redefine their approach to language assessment. Grounded...

A nuts-and-bolts introduction to program evaluation for the nonprofit and public sectors Evaluation Essentials: Methods for Conducting Sound Research, 2nd Edition, is a substantial update to the popular overview of the evaluation process. Virtually every...

Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behavior Addressing challenging behavior is a daily concern for early childhood educators. It’s estimated that roughly 10 to 14 percent of children from birth to 5 years old demonstrate serious behavioral...

Student data can be one of the most powerful tools a teacher can use to help their students to learn. In this book, Richard Selfridge offers practical advice for teachers on how to gather useful student data in the classroom and how to use these findings...

First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors’ considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems...