Educational systems and structures

This edited volume brings closer two contemporary science education research areas:  Nature of Science (NOS) and Social Justice (SJ).

This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines.

In the second edition of this pivotal work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic, you will discover updated and improved resources to use formative data to support higher levels of student learning.

This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry's promulgation through the Victorian Age, and parallel issues of identity in twenty-first century teacher education.

This edited volume presents a broad range of original practice-oriented research studies about tertiary mathematics education.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of gradual development and reforms in teacher education in India.

This book reflects a range of pedagogical responses to increasingly complex educational contexts.

Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap.

Collecting and analysing data to monitor and challenge school standards is an increasingly important - and unavoidable - aspect of our education system.

This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies.

This volume presents Critical Race Structuralism as a framework for analyzing, explaining, and mitigating social and educational inequities.

This book emphasizes the inherently democratic nature of education; from those who practice in higher education institutions and are involved in decision-making, to those questioning the methods of reform processes in those institutions.

Due to the enduring legacy of the colonial, capitalist project, we have arguably entered an era of social, cultural, economic, and environmental collapse.

Applying Cross-Curricular Approaches Creatively explores the relevance and effectiveness of cross-disciplinary and project-based teaching.

In this book, the author Joy Cumming draws on knowledge of law, assessment and measurement to provide an original analysis of the inclusion of students with impairment in educational accountability assessments in the U.

A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is catalyzing improvements in science classrooms across the United States.

This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services.

Written with faculty in mind, Assessment by Design is a practical resource that will also be useful to student affairs staff and administrators dedicated to using assessment to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular settings.

Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues.

Higher education institutions have experienced a sharp increase in demand for accountability.

Teachers view homework as an opportunity for students to continue learning after the bell rings.

Departments and language programs often are asked to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs and make curricular decisions on the basis of evidence.

This book presents current perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues related to the teaching and learning of geometry at secondary schools.

Today, a substantial portion of higher education is provided outside of the traditional universities in non-university institutions with a multitude of varied characteristics.

Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.

Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start.

MEMORY SEED My introduction to teaching art began in September 1971 when I took up a post as art teacher in a secondary school in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Der fünfte Sammelband zur Pfadfinderbewegung in Deutschland behandelt die Geschichte der Pfadfinderinnen zwischen Jugendkulturen und -szenen.

Well established as a teaching resource and course text, this guide to the whats, how-tos, and whys of reading assessment is now in a thoroughly revised fourth edition.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies.

Whose stories do we tell in primary history?

This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue.

This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable ("e;latent"e;) variables.

A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context is committed to what has become known as "e;perspective of the South:"e; understanding the South not as a geographical reference but as a vindication of the existence of ways of knowing and of living which struggle for their survival and for a legitimate place in a world where the respect for difference is balanced with the right for equality.

The role played by testing in the nation's public school system has been increasing steadilyand growing more complicatedfor more than 20 years.

Extremely useful background reading for pre- and in service teachers especially, but not only, of pre-adults.

This book explores possibilities for students to have a much greater role in curriculum than mere receivers of it.

Assessing Students with Poetry Writing Across Content Areas reimagines formative assessment by advocating for a dynamic, poetic approach that delves into students' meaning-making processes.

This book offers physiology teachers a new approach to teaching their subject that will lead to increased student understanding and retention of the most important ideas.

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, cultural diversity and schooling.

Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need.

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, and citizenship in schools.

This edited volume focuses on Curriculum scholars' critical reflections on teacher education (TE) within South Africa to offer insights into critical considerations for the socio-economic, transformational, social and environmental justice and decolonization challenges that the country faces.