This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.
The internationalization of higher education is a world-wide phenomenon, subject to multiple interpretations at national, institutional and individual levels.
This book offers an evidence-based approach to empower early years, primary and secondary education professionals to identify individual pupil needs quickly and carefully, without the long wait or cost for a specialist diagnosis.
Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies.
The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight.
This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.
Written by Lindsey Marsh, The School Fundraising Handbook: How to maximise your income from grants, sponsorship and many other sources of finance is a carefully compiled treasury of tips, tools and key contacts to help schools in the UK save money, boost their income and manage their fundraising projects.
This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.
This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels.
While there is consensus that institutions need to represent their educational effectiveness through documentation of student learning, the higher education community is divided between those who support national standardized tests to compare institutions' educational effectiveness, and those who believe that valid assessment of student achievement is based on assessing the work that students produce along and at the end of their educational journeys.
This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making.
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.
As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level.
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.
L'obligation des résultats en éducation représente un véritable choc pour un milieu scolaire traditionnellement réfractaire à l'évaluation et à la reddition de comptes, et pour un système d'éducation dont la seule véritable priorité au cours des quarante dernières années a été l'accessibilité à l'éducation pour le plus grand nombre.
Das Nachhilfekompendium bietet in den drei Bänden Nachhilfeforschung, Lernpsychologie für Nachhilfekräfte und Das Handbuch für die Nachhilfepraxis einen umfassenden Überblick über den heutigen wissenschaftlichen und praxisorientierten Wissensstand zum Thema Nachhilfeunterricht.
This book provides university teachers, leaders and policymakers with evidence on how researchers in several countries are monitoring and improving student engagement-the extent to which students are exposed to and participate in effective educational practices.
The College Instructor's Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields.
Based on a tremendous increase in the development of psychometric theories in the past decade -- ranging from techniques for criterion-referenced testing to behavioral assessment, generalizability, and item response theory -- this book offers a summary of core issues.
While both committed to providing effective programs and services that help students succeed in college and beyond, and aware of the increasing demands from internal and external stakeholders that every dollar spent benefits students and contributes to the mission of higher education, student affairs professionals have little guidance about how to create and sustain the culture of assessment to achieve these goals.
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.
What statistical evidence shows us about our misguided educational policiesUneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities.
"e;an invaluable guide for practitioners, quality assurors, university managers and students themselves who wish to better understand the importance of assessment for learning, and it will further scholarship in the field significantly.
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches invites readers to think about pedagogy in actor training as a research field in its own right: to sit with the complex challenges, risks, and rewards of the acting studio; to recognise the shared vulnerability, courage, and love that defines our field and underpins our practices.
Educational systems around the world look to student assessment programs as they initiate reforms and revise educational policies to increase student achievement.
This comprehensive manual that covers informational and literary texts will empower teachers to guide their students as they analyze challenging texts.
