Drawing on Game-Based Learning and other innovations, this textbook establishes the Challenge Model of learning-an interactive format that involves meaningful learner decisions leading to exploration of different outcomes.
The recent emphasis on accountability in policy and practice for individuals with learning and behavioral disabilities has placed a renewed focus on issues in assessment.
This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s.
This book analyzes the challenges of developing and implementing effective policies for educational leadership in South-East Europe (SEE) and the Nordic-Baltic region.
Der Band vereint ausgewählte interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Entwicklungen und Problemstellungen rund um das Verhältnis von Subjektivität und Kollektivität.
The book discusses the most essential topics in understanding the development and changes of higher educational systems in Asia after the outbreak of the pandemic, and explores the transformative, international and innovative moves from an Asian perspective.
This volume is the first to compile the insights of experienced and informed education researchers and practitioners involved in the delivery of university pathway programs.
Trends in standardized test scores reveal an alarming truth: our educational system is failing our students, and America is falling behind other nations in producing competent students for a global economy.
Im Schulalltag gilt es für zahlreiche Entscheidungen VERANTWORTUNG zu übernehmen - FÜHRUNG GIBT ORIENTIERUNG und ermöglicht durch Handlungsfreiräume EIGENVERANTWORTUNG, ENGAGEMENT UND EIN HOHES QUALITÄTSNIVEAU.
This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory.
Educators have become increasingly interested in the diverse learning environments of young children and the ways in which children and childhood are positioned within those environments.
The Language of Mathematics: How the Teacher's Knowledge of Mathematics Affects Instruction introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current thinking about mathematics teacher preparation.
This book is an ethnographically-informed interview study of the ways in which middle-class mothers from three Israeli social-cultural groups - immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis and Jewish native-born Israelis - share and differ in their understandings of a 'proper' education for their children and of their role in ensuring this.
Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice is organized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professional standards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee's Standards, ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these selected models.
This book uses historiography and discourse analysis to provide a new insight into understanding the nexus between ideologies, the state, and nation-building-as depicted in history school textbooks.
Der Band enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge zu aktuellen Themen der sporthistorischen Forschung, die aus dem Internationalen Kongress für Sportgeschichte 2018 in Münster hervorgegangen sind.
This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.
This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers' assessment competence.
In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice.
Der Band stellt die abschließenden Ergebnisse der Wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Programms Lernende Regionen - Förderung von Netzwerken für den Zeitraum 2007-2008 vor.
This practical guide to outcomes-based assessment in student affairs is designed to help readers meet the growing demand for accountability and for demonstrating student learning.
Christian Sagert geht in diesem Buch der Frage auf den Grund, wie Väter ihre Lebenspraxis in gemeinsam realisierten Regenbogenfamilien gestalten, in denen eine normativ idealisierte Mutterrolle vermeintlich nicht existiert.
This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents' engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their children - under today's shifting global conditions.
Drawing on the author's cutting-edge research this practical book helps teachers better understand the causes of bullying, gives them confidence to resolve nuanced cases, and provides them with the tools to develop pupil-led anti-bullying campaigns.
What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy.
An examination and analysis of history education in American colleges and universities In 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.
This book explores questions about the relevance of implementing curriculum in transnational vocational education, in situations where teachers are expected to maintain standards in a country for which it was not designed.
This book focuses on how school-level features affect student resistance to education from a comparative angle, taking into account cross-national differences.
This textbook provides real world examples of how disciplinary literacy can incorporate gamified learning opportunities in elementary classrooms (grades K-5 or ages 5-11).