Education: examinations and assessment

For the first time, school districts around the country are being required to adopt formal accountability measures to assess teacher effectiveness.

This book responds to the call for praxis in L2 education by documenting recent and ongoing projects around the world that see partnership with classroom teachers as the essential driver for continuing to develop both classroom assessment practice and conceptual frameworks of assessment in support of teaching and learning.

Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement offers a conceptual and practical introduction to program evaluation and performance measurement for public and non-profit organizations.

Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core provides school leaders, teachers, and others with strategies and best practices for advancing adolescent literacy in the classroom.

While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society's most vulnerable, our children.

Indispensable for anyone involved in vocational education or apprenticeships, The Vocational Assessor Handbook is the only comprehensive guide for assessors and verifiers of vocational qualifications.

ATTENTION: ALL FACULTY & ADMINISTRATORS"e;Another book on student ratings?

This book examines synchronous and asynchronous teaching in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Get the only official guide to the GRE(R) revised General Test that comes straight from the test makers!

This practical guide introduces functional behavioral assessment as a critical tool in planning interventions to reduce disruptive and other problematic behaviors.

Your perfect companion to building confident assessment in teaching and learning in higher education.

Evaluation has played a fundamental role throughout the history of higher education.

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.

Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable public interest, particularly when it is associated with 'high stakes' outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment.

Beginning with a brief history of the Internet, this book delves into a review of current research, active learning strategies, Web courseware, metacognition, strategies for Web discussions, promoting student self-regulation, building interactive Web pages, basic HTML coding, managing Web sites, using databases, automated testing, and security and legal issues.

This book examines important advances and offers a realistic image of the state of the art in student learning outcomes assessment in higher education-a field close to the core of nearly every higher education institution.

This book helps students with the initial phases of their business research project, offering a clear step-by-step approach from defining aims and research questions through to conducting literature reviews and writing a methodology.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

This book is a report on the academic achievement assessment of Grade-6 students in primary school with a large-scale sample for the first time since the new curriculum reform.

This revised edition of Keeping Us Engaged centers on in-classroom instruction, offering fresh student perspectives on how faculty can maximize engagement when teaching in person.

This volume considers the role of initial and continuing teacher education in uncertain times.

This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work in more than 70 countries.

The book provides an overview of developments in the field of entrepreneurship education, with special reference to global perspectives on innovations and best practices, as well as research in the emerging economy context.

All trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised ICT skills test.

In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary basis by states and school districts beginning in spring 1999.

This edited volume gives a new and integrated introduction to item re- sponse models (predominantly used in measurement applications in psy- chology, education, and other social science areas) from the viewpoint of the statistical theory of generalized linear and nonlinear mixed models.

This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature.

This book examines teachers' conceptions and practices of assessment in Tanzania.

This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file.

500 AP style questions with detailed answer explanations to prepare you for what you'll see on test day From Foundations: 8000 BC to 60 CE to the Present Era: 1914 to Present there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP World History exam.

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The Audacity to Teach!

Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning.

Assessing Competencies for Social and Emotional Learning explores the conceptualization, development, and application of assessments of competencies and contextual factors related to social and emotional learning (SEL).

This is an accessible text for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood.

As reform in all sectors of education continues, it is becoming increasingly important that we develop a rich understanding of what "e;intelligence"e; is, and how it can be improved.

This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for the last two decades.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

Using Differentiated Classroom Assessment to Enhance Student Learning introduces pre- and in-service teachers to the foundations, data use, and best practices of the DCA framework.

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Leistungsmessung, Bewertung und Prüfungsformate im WandelKlausuren, Hausarbeiten und Abfragen: Tradierte Prüfungsformate fokussieren vor allem Faktenwissen.

The book takes a closer look at the theoretical and empirical basis for a competence-based view of models and modeling in science learning and science education research.

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest ScoreWe want you to succeed on the Critical Reading section of the SAT.

This practical guide to the intellectual assessment of children and adolescents in schools is widely used, both by practicing school psychologists and by instructors and students in graduate school psychology programs.

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally.

This book is a comprehensive collection of chapters focusing on current techniques and strategies in education policy planning and application, summarizing the debate for the future and prospects of education, within the current socio-economic development and growth spectrum.

Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education.

This volume examines different forms of language and dialect discrimination on U.