Most environmental learning takes place outside of the formal education system, but our understanding of how this learning actually occurs is in its infancy.
At the same time that arts funding and programming in schools are declining, exciting community-based art programs have successfully been able to build community, foster change, and enrich children's lives.
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 examines recent changes in media education and in young people s lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice.
REA's GED® Math Test Tutor - Helps You Pass the Most Challenging Part of the GED® Get ready for the math portion of the GED® with REA's GED® Math Test Tutor Book features: - Content 100% aligned with the new 2014 GED® test - Written by a GED® math tutor and test expert - Comprehensive review covers every topic on the exam - Includes step-by-step instructions on how to use the TI-30XS MultiView™ calculator - 2 full-length practice tests (featuring new question types) with detailed answers It's like having your own tutor… Every year, test-takers report that the math test is the toughest of all the GED® tests.
This book explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in educational assessment, catering to researchers, educators, administrators, policymakers, and technologists involved in shaping the future of education.
Indispensable for anyone involved in vocational education or apprenticeships, The Vocational Assessor Handbook is the only comprehensive guide for assessors and verifiers of vocational qualifications.
The unwritten rules of success that every student must follow to thrive in collegeThe Secret Syllabus equips students with the tools they need to succeed, revealing the unwritten rules and cultural norms and expectations not included in the official curriculum.
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.
Middle Schoolin'Read about the challenges, humor, and rewards of teaching, as well as classroom tragedies and successes, that take place in inner city public schools.
This book explores how career development experiences during education are relevant for wellbeing in youth career transitions from an interdisciplinary lens, using longitudinal data from different national educational contexts.
This book demonstrates how a participatory approach to assessment and accreditation in their new forms creates a synergy for learner-centered education.
This is a practical resource for community and two year college professionals engaged at all levels of learning outcomes assessment, in both academic and co-curricular environments.
This is a practical resource for community and two year college professionals engaged at all levels of learning outcomes assessment, in both academic and co-curricular environments.
This book constitutes a sociological, anthropological, and curricular inquiry into the factors surrounding high academic achievement rates of students in South Korea.
A synthesis of nearly 2,000 articles to help make engineers better educators While a significant body of knowledge has evolved in the field of engineering education over the years, much of the published information has been restricted to scholarly journals and has not found a broad audience.
A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "e;differentiated"e; classrooms with large numbers of underperforming students.
A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "e;differentiated"e; classrooms with large numbers of underperforming students.
This new edition of The SAT For Dummies gives you the information you need to focus on those areas that are most problematic and to ensure that you achieve the best possible score.
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the most current knowledge and practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task of assessing learning outcomes at both course and curricular levels.
The second edition of Effective Grading the book that has become a classic in the field provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading.
The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education.
The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education.
Like a compass guiding you to whats important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured.
This book makes a major contribution to the scholarship on internationalization in higher education by focusing on the perceptions and experiences of the academic profession in a comparative perspective.
This book aims to provide theoretical discussions of assessment development and implementation in mathematics education contexts, as well as to offer readers discussions of assessment related to instruction and affective areas, such as attitudes and beliefs.
This book aims to provide theoretical discussions of assessment development and implementation in mathematics education contexts, as well as to offer readers discussions of assessment related to instruction and affective areas, such as attitudes and beliefs.
