This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum.
Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls word poverty.
Vor dem Hintergrund des Selbstverständnisses der Sozialen Arbeit als helfender Instanz stellt sich die Frage, weshalb zunehmend Risikomanagementverfahren im sozialarbeiterischen Handeln Verwendung finden.
Educational research worldwide has shown that outdoor learning is a positive element of educational practices, which benefits children's mental health and wellbeing, physical wellness, cognitive development.
This book proposes the new concept of "e;comprehensive global competence"e; in order to explore how to advocate, cultivate, and implement global competence at China's higher education institutions.
This edited book focuses on the central and up-to-date issues that represent some of the most relevant challenges and limitations of International Learning Assessments (ILSAs).
Der internationale Steuerungsimpuls der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention (UN-BRK) löste mit seinem Inkrafttreten in Deutschland im Jahr 2009 einen regelrechten ‚Inklusionsschock‘ für die traditionell segregativ ausgerichteten Bildungssysteme aus.
This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education.
An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society.
This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs.
Formative Messmodelle sind in der Psychologie und Erziehungswissenschaft weitgehend unbekannt, wohingegen sie in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften zum Standardrepertoire gehören.
An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring-and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty.
Professional learning networks (PLNs) have been promoted as one way of improving practice in research methodologies and frameworks aimed at the improvement of practice.
Accessible, concise guides for quicker, more effective studyingThese new additions to the Increase Your Score series present key principles and practical strategies for the ACT Writing Test (new for 2005) and the ACT Reading Test, explained in manageable, bite-size sections ideal for the panicked student.
Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face.
This book takes up the debate about matching vocational education with the labour market and shows progress in terms of theoretical models, tools (transformation and matching processes), and learning environments.
Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls word poverty.
This book discusses instruction, learning, and assessment in higher education with an emphasis on several effective formative assessment tools and methods such as digital badges, reflective journals, and peer assessment used in learning environments comprising students of diverse, multicultural backgrounds.
This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards.
This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges.
This book provides insight into the importance of advanced innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and Metaverse as part of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in education.
Introducing students to topical issues and controversies drawn from specific areas of social psychology, Social Psychology for Foundation Year answers a series of contemporary questions and debates by bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within the field.
With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one.
Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't.
The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment.
