Evaluation category: 669 books
Opportunity to Learn, Curriculum Alignment and Test Preparation
A Research Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components...
Examining the Examinations
An International Comparison of Science and Mathematics Examinations for College-Bound Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examining the Examinations looks at the required advanced science and mathematics examinations taken by university-bound students in seven countries. This research focuses on topics covered, types of questions used, and performance expected from students. The book concentrates on comparisons of the...
Measuring Quality of Undergraduate Education in Japan
Comparative Perspective in a Knowledge Based Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
This book explores how the global trend of quality assurance in higher education is related to the boom of measuring learning outcomes in Japan. It also presents a comparative study in higher education policy between Japan and the US, examining how both countries have reacted to the demands of globalization....
Ipsative Assessment and Personal Learning Gain
Exploring International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points. Education currently mirrors the values and practices of a highly competitive world with...
by Kenneth C. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Do your students arrive every morning to a welcoming, supportive school environment? Do they trust you and your teachers to keep them safe? Learn how you and your teachers can nurture supportive relationships with students, develop conflict management strategies, prevent different forms of bullying,...
Assessing Writing
A Guide for Teachers, School Leaders, and Evaluators
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book on assessing writing is designed for teachers, school leaders, and evaluators. It begins with a collection of assessment practices that will increase teachers' efficiency and effectiveness as they guide students in learning how to think and write successfully. The second section includes...
The Flourishing Principal
Strategies for Self-Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The work of a school principal is a blend of nonstop demands, heart-opening connections, near-constant stress, passionate commitment, and a merry jumble of projects that flop or flourish. It’s easy to forget that the principal’s own health and harmony are among the things that also need attention.
In...
What Girls Say About Their Science Education Experiences
Is Anybody Really Listening?
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
What Girls Say About Their Science Education Experiences describes the science education experiences of 12 young ladies enrolled in advanced science courses in a Southeast Texas High School. What Girls Say... includes profiles of each girl and topical chapters dealing with generalizations about the...
The Miseducation of English Learners
A Tale of Three States and Lessons to be Learned
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning. The Miseducation of English Learners examines the initial policy impact of Structured English Immersion (SEI), an Englishonly program mandated for English Learners (ELs) in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts in the United States. The book...
Five Dimensions of Quality
A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Meet calls for increased quality and understand accreditation expectations
Author Linda Suskie is internationally recognized for her work in higher education assessment, and she is a former vice president of a major regional accreditor. In Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
This volume offers contributions by thought leaders from a variety of disciplines and different perspectives, which are brought together in a final chapter. The contributions give insight in the role of large-scale international assessments as change agents. As national leaders recognize the growing...
Professional Responsibility and Professionalism
A sociomaterial examination
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches...
From Testing to Productive Student Learning
Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions....
The ABCs of Educational Testing
Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Amplify your assessment literacy.
Formative, data-driven, high-stakes—we all know the buzzwords surrounding educational testing. But we often shelve our understanding of these because they are overwhelmingly complex. Those who care about our schools and students—teachers, administrators,...