Educational systems and structures

Accessibly written and featuring illustrative case examples, this book provides a complete guide to curriculum-based assessment for instructional design (CBA-ID).

Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students.

Higher education finances lie at the crossroads in many Western countries.

This book explores the concept of the 'hidden curriculum' within doctoral education.

Lesson planning is a requirement of every teacher.

We know that curriculum is the core of the classroom experience, but what makes a quality curriculum?

In diesem Heft mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Inklusion" ist unschwer zu erkennen, woran die Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention in den Ländern derBundesrepublik zu scheitern droht.

This edited book is a comprehensive resource for understanding the history as well as the current status of educational practices in Singapore.

This book explores assessment practices that offer an enlightening and enabling view of all learners.

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 would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers.

Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood and David Livingstone This Handbook presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research, in over ?

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation.

This book offers a concise and comprehensive exploration of the theory of transformative learning by European researchers.

Student Plagiarism in Higher Education is a crucial read for any university teacher concerned about plagiarism.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory.

This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can - or should - choose students during the early part of the 21st century.

This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development.

Assessment is central to ensemble music.

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

Odds are, your state has adopted the Common Core State Standards.

This book covers initiatives related to higher education's public mission such as university-community engagement, knowledge transfer, economic development, and social responsibility, using empirical and conceptual cases in the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Philosophy of Education and the Curriculum is a six-chapter book that first elucidates the forms of knowledge argument and religious education.

Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore.

An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad schoolSome of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school-like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article-won't be covered in any class.

Access to big data, the "e;new commodity"e; for the 21st century economies, and its uses and potential abuses, has both conceptual and methodological impacts for the field of comparative and international education.

There is convincing evidence that carefully applied classroom assessments can promote student learning and academic self-regulation.

The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units offers instructional modules on how to refine units created using Understanding by Design (UbD) and how to effectively review the units using self-assessment and peer review, along with observation and supervision.

Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education.

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within the context of ever-increasing privatization and commercialization of education and the growing presence of non-state actors.

This edited volume reflects on how the "e;transnational"e; features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local.

This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research.

This book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students.

This volume brings together marginalized perspectives and communities into the mainstream discourse on education for sustainable development and global citizenship.

Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia.

In this fully updated sixth edition of this much-loved textbook, students will be introduced to different ways of looking at education, supported by links to classic and contemporary research.

Just being outside doesn't always guarantee a connection to the natural world.

This book  offers a meso-level description of demographics, science education, and science teacher education.

Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, scholarly overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989.